Description
- Planning & coordination: Review IFC drawings, method statements, lift plans, and stringing plans; align with Construction Phase Plan and Temporary Works designs.
- Setting‑out & verification: Check tower locations/stubs, foundations, and orientation; confirm wayleave and profile clearances before erection
- Tower assembly oversight: Supervise steelwork pre‑assembly, bolt grades/torques, crossarm lifts, insulator and hardware installation; verify earthing continuity.
- Stringing & sagging: Set up winches/tensioners and travelers per manufacturer and client requirements; oversee running‑out, tensioning, dead‑ends/joints, spacers; achieve/record sag‑tension to approved ruling spans and temperature windows.
- Quality assurance: Maintain ITPs and records (torque logs, fitting checklists, sag/tension data, OPGW fibre tests); manage NCRs and close‑out.
- Safety, health & environment: Enforce CDM controls, safe systems of work, permits, and exclusion zones; assure LOLER/PUWER compliance for cranes/MEWPs/winches/tensioners; deliver daily briefings and support incident investigations.
- Client procedures & authorisations: Apply National Grid Transmission Procedures (e.g SR106 commissioning, SR135 drawing management) and Safety Rules/NSIs as applicable to the work scope.
- Documentation & reporting: Keep daily records of progress, plant, weather; produce redlines/as‑builts and handover packs; support commissioning panels as required.
- Stakeholder engagement: Interface with Client Engineer/NEC Supervisor, land agents, and environmental teams; host/participate in audits and management tours
- Programme adherence: towers/sections completed to plan; minimal re‑work from QA/NCRs.
- Handover quality: completion packs/records and as‑builts
Requirements
Core experience
- 2–5+ years in OHL construction with tower erection and/or stringing exposure on DNO/TSO projects; working knowledge of BS EN 50341 application in construction.
- Hands‑on sag‑tension / stringing charts and field measurements; use of travelers, sheaves, running boards, grips, and tensioners in accordance with standard practice.
- Planning and controlling lifting operations for tower sections/crossarms/plant under LOLER (lift plans, SWLs, inspections, competent persons
- Experience with client procedures (e.g National Grid SR106/SR135), commissioning evidence packs, and drawing/as‑built management.
- Familiarity with apprenticeship routes and transmission/distribution distinctions (e.g Linesperson standards), helpful for mentoring crews and verifying competencies.
Site Engineer (OHL) in London employer: Aureol Global Connections
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