Site Manager | Birmingham, United Kingdom

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Excellent company pension and benefits

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. is seeking a Site Manager to lead all on-site activities for a project in the United Kingdom.

You will ensure cost-effective delivery in line with contract specifications, quality, schedule, and safety from start-up through commissioning and maintenance, coordinating with customer and subcontractors on site. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in electrical or mechanical engineering and 5+ years' experience, with strong leadership, communication, and a proactive approach to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in electrical/mechanical engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years' experience as Site Manager in construction or installation
• Good understanding of transmission regulations and current HSE legislation
• Proven leadership with a collaborative, solutions-oriented approach and strong communication skills
• Proactive and flexible

Responsibilities

• Plan on-site activities with senior leadership and project manager, coordinating resources and milestones
• Manage site from handover from customer to completion, ensuring safety, QA, and schedule compliance
• Represent project on site and build relationships with customers and stakeholders
• Ensure proper handling, storage and installation of equipment to prevent damage
• Maintain RAMS and project health and safety plans for each work package
• Oversee on-site resources and training, promote health and safety practices
• Control project costs and monitor spend against forecasts, estimate final cost

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Project coordination

Proactive and flexible

Education

Bachelor's in electrical/mechanical engineering

Job description

At Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service business at Hitachi Energy in Europe (HBUEU), Inclusion drives our culture of innovation and collaboration. Our leading technology and strong market position enable us to achieve growth targets in the energy transition acrosscurrent and growing market segments such as hydrogen, data centers and e-mobility.

Hitachi Energy has an exciting opportunity for a Site Manager, to join our dynamic team. You will lead all on-site activities of a project to assure cost-effective execution of project deliverables in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards, schedule, and safety requirements during the start-up, construction and/or erection, commissioning and maintenance phases

Location, (Remote based) expectations to travel, you will manage sites that can be anywhere in United Kingdom

(Please note we are unable to provide visa support for this position)

How you'll make an impact:

• Planning project on-site activities together with theSeniorManagement TeamandProject Manager, including necessary resources,equipmentand milestones. Coordinating agreement between customer and external resources on construction targets, health and safety requirements, siteorganizationand policy.
• Responsible for the site, from receiving the assigned site area from the customer until handingover it backto the customer on completion day. This responsibility includes coordination of all on-site activities to ensure the successful execution of start-up, construction, erection,testingand commissioning activities in alignment with contract specifications, quality standards, schedule, and safety requirements.
• Serving as a project representative on site. Build andmaintaineffective relationships with customers as well as other local stakeholders.
• Ensuring correct handling, storage and installation of equipment and material to avoid anydamages. Report promptly to projectlogisticswhen goods have been received tosite.
• Ensuring that detailed and up-to-date risk assessments and method statements (RAMS) are in place in respect of each work package, compliant with theprojecthealth and safety plan.
• Ensuringall on-site resources areproperly trainedand proactivelypromotehealth and safety considerations to project partners throughout the project.
• Controlling project cost for the project site work,monitorsactualspendagainst forecasts, and estimates final cost for the same.
• Ensuring all documentation is modified and updated as necessary, the document handling system is maintained, and latest revisions are used for the construction work on site.
• Managing the sub-contractors on site to ensure that necessary quality and progress are achieved to meet delivery date and agreed standards.
• Report regularly to the Project Manager on site activities, HSE (health, safety, environment), quality, progress, cost.
  

Your Background:

• Bachelor'sin electrical/mechanical engineering, or equivalent skills
• 5+ years' experience as Site Manager in construction and/or installation business
• Good understanding of the transmission regulations and current HSE legislation.
• Proven leadership skills, with a collaborative,solutions-orientedapproachandstrong communicationskills.
• Proactive and flexible

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary package
• Excellent company pension and wide-ranging benefits schemes.
• Top quality H&S culture alongside comprehensive training and personal development programmes.
• Inclusive Work Environment: We foster a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected.

More About Us

We offer fantastic opportunities to work on dynamic, high-impact and cutting-edge industry initiatives that are making a crucial impact to society whilst also offering the vibrancy of working within a world-leading global organization.

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time - balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD.

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world's energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.