- Ref:94632
- Location:Birmingham
- Employment:Full time
- Closing Date:2 June 2026
Senior Commissioning Engineer (94632)
Since 1987, Mitie’s 76,000 employees, have been serving companies and communities across the world. We're the UK’s leading facilities management company. Our clients range from banks to retailers, hospitals to schools, and critical government sites. We make a positive difference to millions of people, every day, and we're very proud of this. Join us and together there's no limit to what we can achieve.
Job title: Senior Commissioning Engineer
Region Covered: Midlands
Reports to: Project Manager
The Role
As our Senior Commissioning Engineer within our Strategic Accounts department, you will be responsible for taking full technical ownership of the planning, coordination and on-site delivery of commissioning activities for large-scale integrated elect6ronic security systems within data centre and mission-critical environments.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Leading the commissioning strategy, sequencing and delivery of complex, multi-system security projects
- Acting as the senior technical authority on site during commissioning, testing and handover
- Commissioning integrated CCTV, Access Control, PSIM and intrusion systems, including IP-based and networked solutions
- Producing and managing commissioning plans, documentation, integrated testing programs and handover packs
- Coordinating with Project Managers, IT stakeholders, clients' teams and third-party contractors
- Verifying system resilience, redundancy, fail-safe operation and compliance with design intent
- Providing technical leadership and oversight to Installation and Commissioning Engineers
- Leading issue resolution during commissioning and ensuring formal sign-off and acceptance
No job description can be entirely comprehensive, and the jobholder will be expected to adapt and carry out such other duties as may be required from time to time, on the understanding that they will be within the individual's remit and capability, and consistent with the status and responsibilities of the role within the business.
Person Specification
- Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Commissioning Engineer delivering enterprise-level security systems
- Demonstratable experience working in data centre or mission-critical environments
- Strong technical knowledge of:
- Enterprise access control platforms (Lenel, C-CURE, Gallagher, AMAG)
- IP CCTV and VMS platforms (Genetec, Milestone)
- IP networking, servers, system integration and redundancy
- Previous experience planning and leading large, complex commissioning phases
- Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Methodical, documentation-driven approach suitable for regulated environments
- Full UK driving licence and prepared to travel
- Due to the location of our projects, travel is required
- Ability to obtain data centre security clearance
- Relevant electrical, electronic or security engineering qualification
- Manufacturer certifications for enterprise security platforms
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
Working Conditions
The physical environment requires the employee to at site locations around the UK and may involve travel to Europe from time to time. Construction site locations will involve both inside and outside working environments and the employee will be required to use personal protective equipment. The employee may/will be required to work late into the evening, nights, weekends and on public holidays and may be required to spend time away in order to fulfil the job role.
Group Compliance
As part of the companies compliance to The Health & Safety at Work Etc Act 1974, ISO9001 for Quality, ISO14001 for Environmental and ISO27001 for Information Technology, there are several key objectives that are issued each year upon management review that we expect all staff to work towards in order for the company to meet these objectives and include but are not limited to:
- Compliance to all legislative and British Standard requirements
- Compliance to associated accreditation bodies schemes from NSI, BAFE, LPCB, FIA and others as required
- Maximise customer satisfaction with the services provided by GBE Converge
- Working to reduce, renew and recycle any waste on and off our sites including our offices
- Protect the environment and ensure use of toxic materials is avoided where possible
- Work to best safe practice and ensure actions do not cause harm unto themselves or others
- Employees will not tamper with any issued PPE or plant machinery that it may cause harm unto themselves or others
- Ensure all minimum training requirement are met in compliance with the relevant ISO standards
- Ensure that any Information Technology ‘incidents' are effectively reported and resolved in a timely fashion (internally or externally)
- Maintain clear desk and screen at all times
- Compliance to ensure no deliberate breaches in security information and/ or systems



