Lead Construction Engineer – Electrical

Wood; Redcar; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Wood is seeking an Electrical Lead (Discipline Construction Lead) on a 12-month contract, based at Teesside. The role will be site-based, Mon-Fri, with occasional travel to EPC design offices in Paris and UK/overseas facilities.

Responsibilities include overseeing electrical construction activities, safety, quality, and coordination with EPC and PCC contractors to achieve mechanical completion and client handover.

Responsibilities

• Oversee electrical construction activities executed by EPC and PCC contractors.
• Ensure health and safety, quality, and constructability standards are met.
• Coordinate with EPC discipline electrical leads, equipment leads, and SIP lead.
• Manage readiness, installation, testing, energisation, and handover through to mechanical completion and client handover.

Job description

Wood is currently recruiting for an Electrical Lead (Discipline Construction Lead) on a 12 contract basis. The role will be based on Teesside at the project site office at Redcar. If required, you will be expected to conduct occasional travel to EPC contractor’s design offices in Paris and potential EPC Contractor facilities in the UK and overseas. It will be a full-time site-based role with Mon-Fri site working pattern overseeing all construction areas on the project. Limited but regular overtime may be required in keeping with EPC working patterns, which may change through the life of the project.

The role will involve close coordination with EPC engineering teams and site contractors through installation, turnover, testing, mechanical completion, and handover.

The Role

As the Electrical Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing all electrical construction activities executed by the EPC and PCC Contractors. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Health and Safety
• Industrial Relations
• Quality
• Constructability
• Readiness
• Installation of electrical equipment, erection of containment, pulling and securing of cables, punching, testing and energisation of electrical systems
• Turnover through to Mechanical Completion and Client Handover
• Cleanliness, preservation, and readiness for commissioning
• Leadership of client standards for “build it tight” and “build it clean”
• Coordination with EPC Discipline Electrical Leads for all electrical scope
• Coordination with Equipment Leads for hook‑up to rotating and static equipment
• Coordination with SIP Lead for scaffolding requirements
• Coordinate with Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning Leads as part of a systemised completion and handover
• Coordinating with HSE Leads for ensuring lifting, testing and energisation is assessed, planned, and conducted ensuring suitable plant and methodology are in place with appropriate exclusion and access controls.
• Ensuring compliance with client specifications, project specifications, safety standards, and quality requirements
• Ensuring EPC reporting is compliant and reflects the status of the work

The role will involve close coordination with EPC engineering teams and site contractors through installation, turnover, testing, mechanical completion, and handover.

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