WTG Commissioning Supervisor

Taylor Hopkinson; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Taylor Hopkinson is seeking an Electrical Installation & Commissioning Supervisor to align on-site with back-office engineers, QA teams, and contractor leads, ensuring quality, progress, and safety across multi-contractor sites.

The role requires HV/LV expertise, GWO safety training, and hands-on oversight of testing and commissioning activities. You will drive safety, risk management, and continuous improvement for client projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.
• Experience with installation, test, and commissioning of dynamic systems and control & communication systems.
• GWO trainings and safety standards are required.
• Experience coordinating on-site contractor teams.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate alignment meetings with back-office engineers, client QA on other sites, and on-site contractor team leads.
• Provide input on progress, risks, and quality to Electrical Installation & Commissioning management.
• Review contractor ITP and test procedures; witness FAT, SAT, SIT, OSAT, OSIT per CtF/CtQ guidelines.
• Supervise equipment delivery; ensure damages and missing equipment are recorded and addressed; review RAMS.
• Oversee on-site installation and cable pulling/termination with focus on CtF and CtQ.
• Coordinate cross-contractor interfaces on sites with multiple contractors.
• Execute LV AP and HV AP scope; maintain electrical safety, LOTO, and energisation checks.
• Assist in inspections and tests for Test After Completion prior to asset handover.
• Capture lessons learned from NCRs and punches to improve contracts and procedures.

Skills

Electrical installation

Site supervision

Contractor coordination

Quality & safety compliance

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

GWO Basic Safety Training

GWO Enhanced First Aid

GWO Control of Hazardous Energies

GWO High Voltage

UKOG Medical + Chester Step Test

Tools

RAMS

I.T.P & testing procedures

FAT/SAT/SIT witnessing

HV/LV testing safety

Job description

Responsibilities

Responsibilities: Facilitate alignment meetings with respectively back-office engineers, client QA on other sites, and on-site contractor team leads - enabling collaboration through open communication on quality, progress, and safety. Update Electrical Installation & Commissioning Management on system specific progress, risks, and quality - providing observation-based input to scope related progress and risks. Review contractor ITP and test procedures, and witness all test phases (FAT, SAT, SIT, OSAT, and OSIT) based on the Critical to Functionality (CtF) and Critical to Quality (CtQ) guidelines from the functional line department and project specific assessment. Supervise delivery of equipment, ensuring that all damages and missing equipment is recorded and addressed to the contactor. This includes familiarisation with shipping lists and reviewing equipment unloading Risk Assessment & Method Statements (RAMS). Supervise the contractors' handling and installation of equipment during the outfitting and electrical installation, including pulling and termination of cables focusing on CtF and CtQ. On projects with multiple contractors directly reporting to client on site, coordinate the on-site cross contractor interfaces and collaboration. Supervise qualification (mechanical completion) of the installed equipment and cables (high voltage, low voltage, and communication cables). Execute Low Voltage and High Voltage Authorised Person (LV AP and HV AP) scope, involving establishing and maintaining electrical safety, lock out/tag out, and energisation checks. Execute inspections and tests relevant for the Test After Completion prior to asset handover to Generation. Provide lessons learned and improvement proposals, based on NCR's, punches, and through using the processes and procedures supplied by the functional line department, enabling a continuous development of client's contracts and the standard processes and procedures, ensuring client and the Electrical Installation & Commissioning Supervisor role always keep up with contemporary needs. Take location and task-based safety training (e.g. Global Wind Organisation (GWO) training, and local supervisor safety certifications), observe and intervene on site based on safety on site, and report to the client QHSE representative on site.

Requirements

Requirements: Possess a bachelor or higher educational degree within subject matter field of engineering. Have recent experience and obtained competencies with installation, test, and commissioning of dynamic systems, equipment, components, and cables (i.e. high and low voltage electrical, electromechanical, mechanical, fluid, thermo, and multidiscipline dynamic systems) and control & communication systems, equipment, components, and cables (i.e. supervisory control & data acquisition, network, and telecommunication systems). UKOG Medical + Chester Step Test (minimum rating: above average). GWO training, following GWO Basic Safety Training Standard, GWO Enhanced First Aid Training Standard, GWO Control of Hazardous Energies Standard, and GWO High Voltage Standard.