Commissioning Assurance Team Lead in Whitehaven

At Amentum, we're not just solving problems; we're engineering the future. Our team is driven by an unyielding commitment to innovation, integrity, and collaboration, tackling some of the most significant challenges in science, security, and sustainability. If you're passionate about making a real impact and want to be part of a community that values ethical excellence, this is the place where your ambition can thrive.

We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities. People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

The Role: As Commissioning Assurance Team Lead, you are responsible for the execution of a compliance assurance function on behalf of the Commissioning Start Up Manager, ensuring that Commissioning and Operability governance, processes, and arrangements are rigorously applied and maintained to facilitate the effective delivery of projects. The role upholds continued adherence to Commissioning start up procedures, Site Licence Conditions and statutory and regulatory requirements.

As a Commissioning Assurance Team Lead, some of your responsibilities could include:

• Provides strategic oversight of assurance activities, ensuring that commissioning processes, evidence and readiness milestones are delivered to the required quality, safety and compliance standards.
• Influencing and stakeholder management, they communicate complex assurance findings with clarity, challenge constructively at senior levels and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Provide effective leadership, guidance, and coaching to the Assurance Team to optimise capability, enhance performance, and ensure efficient, high quality delivery of assurance functions.
• Ensure commissioning progress is captured, verified, and reported with a high degree of accuracy, transparency, and traceability.
• Plan, allocate, and optimise Assurance Team resources to ensure the effective and timely support of project delivery and Commissioning objectives.

As a Commissioning Assurance Team Lead, you will already be experienced in:

• Developing and implementing an assurance surveillance programme ensuring that effective governance arrangements are established to provide oversight of processes and standards.
• Developing, maintaining and consistently improve local assurance methods, tools and dashboards to monitor quality performance.
• Lead the planning and delivery of assurance audits against Commissioning Start Up activities as defined by the Clients Quality Department to provide confidence in ongoing compliance.

Our Culture: Our values are built on a strong foundation of safety, integrity, and respect for every individual. People are at the heart of our mission, and we believe in supporting one another through a culture of care and collaboration. We strive to create a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. Supporting mental wellbeing and fostering a sense of connection are essential to how we work.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, ancestry, United States military or veteran status, color, religion, creed, marital or domestic partner status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, citizenship status, low-income status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.