Electrical Site Supervisor | Limerick

Kirby Group Engineering; Limerick; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Kirby Group Engineering is seeking a site supervisor to join our Ireland-based teams. The role focuses on assisting the Project Manager with construction planning, site setup, and coordination of subcontractors to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery to the required quality standards.

You will lead safety briefings, maintain the site diary, and drive continuous improvement across productivity and people management, in a vibrant, multi-functional team environment.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering construction projects on-site in a supervisory role.
• Ability to lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong emphasis on HSEQ and safe working practices while delivering to programme and budget.

Responsibilities

• Assist PM in developing construction programmes and look-ahead plans.
• Visit site to establish site setup and safety pack; support change management.
• Coordinate with subcontractors to ensure labour allocation and productivity.
• Maintain site diary, review drawings, and manage QA/QC processes.
• Lead toolbox talks, inductions, and safety briefings; monitor compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Team coordination

Safety leadership

Job description

• Permanent position available with a considerable portfolio of works for the next 5+ years
• To build your career by assisting in the delivery of 'leading edge' engineering projects.
• To work with a vibrant, agile and multi-functional team in delivering projects on time, safely, to budget and to the required quality standards.
• To benefit from Kirby's Career Development Programmes that will enhance your leadership capability.
• To work with the best.
• Excellent package on offer with room for negotiations

• Permanent position available with a considerable portfolio of works for the next 5+ years
• To build your career by assisting in the delivery of 'leading edge' engineering projects.
• To work with a vibrant, agile and multi-functional team in delivering projects on time, safely, to budget and to the required quality standards.
• To benefit from Kirby's Career Development Programmes that will enhance your leadership capability.
• To work with the best.
• Excellent package on offer with room for negotiations

About Kirby Group Engineering

Kirby Group Engineering is an international multi-disciplinary engineering services contractor and leading provider of high-value engineering services to a number of 'blue chip' companies. Operating across Ireland, the UK, Europe and South Africa, Kirby has become the engineering service provider of choice in growth segments such as pharmaceuticals, data centres and power transmission and distribution. Our culture is innovative, collaborative and performance focused. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to grow and develop in a company committed to developing talent and rewarding performance.

Project Start-Up

• Assist PM in development of construction programme, short term look ahead planning reports, equipment and materials schedules.
• Visit site and develop a site establishment schedule.
• Familiarisation with change management with PM.
• Assist in project validation.
• Put site safety starter pack in place and participate in HSEQ plan.
• Set up site establishment.
• Method statement and Risk Assessment preparation and review with sub-contractor.
• Review construction drawings and sign off
• Assist in benchmarking installation practices and Quality procedures

Project Running Phase

• Productivity
• Develop a daily key action plan that includes HSEQ, productivity and people management.
• Assist Project team in expediting of major equipment deliveries.
• Maintain a site diary
• Attend/Chair internal meetings with sub-contractors.
• Ensure that all variations are picked up in conjunction with PM and QS.
• Ensure labour allocation sheets are being completed by sub-contractors.
• Produce short term programmes in line with master programme.
• Mark up master programme each week and issues to PM.
• Effectively manage sub-contractor supervision to enable efficient productivity
• Ensure sub-contractor workforce is on site at workface on time.

People

• Liaise with sub-contractors to address available work faces.
• Liaise with our client in co-ordination between building and services.
• Work closely with other supervisors to ensure effective co-ordination between M&E services.
• Integrate with other internal and external supervisors to ensure cross co-ordination of trades and installation processes.
• Take ownership and responsibility of issues to drive out solutions in conjunction with Project Manager.

Safety

• Ensure tool box talks, inductions and safety briefings are being carried out.
• Maintain plant logs and ensure weekly safety checks are carried out.
• Ensure operatives are working safely, wearing appropriate PPE and working to agreed method statements.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety Policy in particular to the operation of work permits, site safety audits and weekly walk arounds.
• Carry out daily walk around adopting a don't walk by approach to safety.
• Implement H&S behaviour/culture and Golden Rules.

Quality

• Plan and co-ordinate delivery of materials and plant.
• Mark up drawings in conjunction with inspection testing.
• Ensure inspection test plan is enforced by snagging works, then offering to client for inspection at various stages of the installation working to ZERO snags.
• Ensure that free issue equipment is checked, cared for and once accepted confirm to engineer to sign off for payment.

Close Out Activities

• Liaise with commissioning engineer in ensuring all systems are tested, demonstrated and handover.
• Ensure all site safety devices are proved.
• Ensure all life systems are complete and certified.
• Issue final marked up drawings are correct.
• Liaise with PM on site demobilisation, including plant, labour, materials and site establishment.
• Ensure all statutory notices, schematics, wall charts are in place on site in accordance with project completion checklist.

Other Duties

• Maintain a site diary.
• Assist QS in his / her duties
• Ensure company’s good image is maintained at all times.
• Integrate with site team.
• Ensure your agreed training plan is enforced.

For more information on this role, or other Construction / Engineering opportunities across Ireland, the UK, Europe, or South Africa please review our careers page (Vacancies - Kirby Group Careers) or contact the Talent Acquisition Team at Kirby Group in confidence on [phone].

Kirby Group Engineering is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of race, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.