Lead Construction Engineer – Instrument

Wood; Redcar; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Wood is recruiting for an Instrumentation Lead (Discipline Construction Lead) on a 12-month contract based at the Teesside project site office in Redcar, United Kingdom. Occasional travel to Paris EPC design offices and other EPC facilities may be required.

The role is full-time, site-based with Mon-Fri working pattern and possible overtime aligned to EPC schedules. Lead instrumentation construction activities, coordinate with EPC and PCC contractors, and ensure safety, quality, and readiness

Qualifications

• Responsibilities include overseeing instrumentation construction activities executed by EPC and PCC Contractors.
• Role requires leadership to ensure safety, quality, and constructability of instrumentation works.

Responsibilities

• Health and Safety oversight on site.
• Installation of instruments, containment, cables, punching, testing and energisation.
• Turnover through to Mechanical Completion and Client Handover.
• Coordinate with EPC Discipline Instrumentation Leads and Equipment Leads.
• Ensure compliance with client specifications, project specifications, safety standards and quality requirements.

Job description

Wood is currently recruiting for a Instrumentation 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.

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The Role

As the Instrumentation Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing all instrumentation 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 instruments, erection of containment, pulling and securing of cables, punching, testing and energisation
• 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 Instrumentation Leads for all instrumentation 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 testing and energisation is assessed, planned, and conducted using suitable methodology 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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