Electrical and Instrument Field Supervisor

Duration: 2 Years (Starting May 2025), to be reviewed and re-assessed thereafter.

We are looking for an Electrical & Instrument - Field Supervisor to join our client's team at the Humber Refinery. In this role, you will take responsibility for leading field operations, ensuring the accurate installation and commissioning of electrical and instrumentation equipment in line with established schedules and programs. This position is crucial in ensuring that all work is carried out safely, efficiently, and in full compliance with design specifications.

Primary Accountabilities / Responsibilities

• Responsible for contractor safety out on site.
• Complete weekly level 1 safety audits and behavioural based safety observations.
• Provide a first point of contact for safety issues for the contractor and try to resolve them working with the client’s safety team.
• Review and approve permit documentation submitted by the contractors.
• Ensure contractor supplies day work sheets and contract variations in a timely manner. Review and challenge where necessary to ensure validity of claims before approving within the SI system.
• Carry out job stepping based on design drawings to schedulers.
• Review plans to ensure all activities are captured.
• Monitor progress, by reviewing the contractor updates, and ensure plans are updated accurately to reflect field status.
• Understand the work scope intimately to ensure installation carried out correctly and efficiently.
• Help to develop execution plans and understand enabling activities, e.g. scaffold, and ensure they are carried out in a timely manner to avoid delays.
• Resolve field conflicts quickly and effectively.
• Manage technical queries in the system. Resolve minor queries in the field.
• Pre-start-up safety review checks.
• Ensure all work is completed as per the approved design drawings and QA/QC documentation is completed and available.
• Ensure the work location is in a suitable condition to be handed back to operations, e.g. clean and tidy, no hazards introduced by the project work.
• Provide specialist roles (if applicable i.e. AP).
• Commissioning support post project completion.
• Turnaround supervision covering both project and maintenance related scope.

Critical Skills (e.g. relevant qualifications, experience, knowledge)

• Computer literate.
• Working knowledge of health & safety legislation.
• General administration skills.
• Good construction knowledge.
• Good communication skills, written & verbal.
• Experienced Supervisor /Supervision of Contractor work force/Contractors.
• Discipline expert.
• Planning & Schedule knowledge.
• Good Communicator.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities.

Essential Qualifications

• Qualified trade background.
• CCNSG Safety Passport + LATS / IOSH Managing Safely Training.

Key Competencies (e.g. Team Worker/Self-Motivation)

• Good interpersonal skills.
• Self-Motivated.
• Team Player.

Leadership Skills (if applicable)

• Ability to surface and resolve conflict.
• Able to establish priorities and develop critical tasks.
• Decision maker.