Offshore Electrical Installation & Commissioning Supervisor

UTM Consultants Ltd; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

UTM Consultants Ltd is looking for an Offshore Electrical Installation & Commissioning Supervisor based in the Town of Poland, New York, to oversee and ensure safety in electrical installations and commissioning of systems onsite.

The role demands a bachelor's degree in engineering, recent relevant experience, and certifications in safety practices. Responsibilities include facilitating coordination, supervising contractors, and ensuring quality and risk management at all site activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
• Experience with installation, testing, and commissioning of high/low voltage systems.
• GWO and UKOG Medical certifications.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate communication between site and back-office teams.
• Supervise installations and electrical work ensuring safety standards.
• Conduct risk assessments and report on progress.

Skills

Installation, testing, and commissioning of electrical systems

Safety management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Lautec

EnSync

Job description

Role Objective

Guide management and liaise with back‑office engineers, creating a clear insight into progress, risks, quality, and safety on site.

Motivate progress and a safe work culture, through contractor engagement, coordination, and collaboration.

Responsibilities

It is the Offshore Electrical Installation & Commissioning Supervisor’s responsibility to facilitate constructive and fact‑based communication between activities at site, Offshore Electrical Installation & Commissioning Management, and back‑office functions within the project. Through honest observation‑based feedback on progress and quality, enabling the Offshore Electrical Installation & Commissioning Manager to conduct solid risk assessments, present realistic forecasts to project management, and prepare for a smooth handover to Generation.

While on site the Offshore Electrical Installation & Commissioning Supervisor is a role model for safe behaviour, inspiring contractors, sub‑contractors, and site visitors to always think safety before quality and progress. The Supervisor engages with contractors and working party foremen to understand and obtain knowledge of issues related to quality and progress, collaborating with them to identify suitable mitigations, and finally reporting findings and contractors’ proposed mitigations to Offshore Electrical Installation & Commissioning Management.

Tasks

• Facilitate alignment meetings with back‑office engineers 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 are recorded and addressed to the contractor, including 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 the 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.
• Support the PICOS, including substituting, in all matters related to safe substation management, including inductions, daily coordination, and safety drills.
• Execute inspections and tests relevant for the Test After Completion prior to asset handover to Generation.
• Provide lessons learned and improvement proposals, based on NCRs, punches, and the processes and procedures supplied by the functional line department, enabling continuous development of the client’s contracts and standard processes, ensuring the role keeps 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.

Deliverables

• Completed Commissioning Document Register (CDR) reported to the Offshore Electrical Installation & Commissioning Manager.
• Record system progress and provide daily input to the Daily Progress Report (DPR) using Lautec, visualised through EnSync.
• Minutes of meetings from regular alignment meetings with back‑office engineers and on‑site contractors, stored within project document management system.
• Rectified and closed out punches for all electrical and electromechanical systems, recorded in Aconex Field.
• Recorded lessons learned and improvement proposals within Synergi, with responsible and actions defined in the Synergi cases.
• Inform about HSE related observation, via observation cards or app, viewable by site HSE representative.

Decision Authority

Through witnessing of installation and test, the Offshore Electrical Installation and Commissioning Supervisor has the authority to accept or reject completion of test and commissioning, based on the contractual requirements and the project mandated requirements and acceptance criteria.

Qualifications and Requirements

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