At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead instrumentation construction activities and ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.
- Company: Join Wood, a global leader in engineering and operations for energy and materials.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, diverse work environment, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work on exciting projects with a focus on energy transition and sustainability.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on large-scale projects while developing your skills in a dynamic team.
- Qualifications: HNC or higher in Instrumentation or Control Engineering preferred; experience in similar roles required.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
Wood is currently recruiting for an Instrumentation Lead (Discipline Construction Lead) on a 12-month contract basis. The role will be based on Teesside at the project site office at Redcar. If required, you will be expected to conduct occasional travel to EPC contractor’s design offices in Paris and potential EPC Contractor facilities in the UK and overseas. It will be a full-time site-based role with a Mon-Fri site working pattern overseeing all construction areas on the project. Limited but regular overtime may be required in keeping with EPC working patterns, which may change through the life of the project.
The Role
As the Instrumentation Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing all instrumentation construction activities executed by the EPC and PCC Contractors. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Health and Safety
- Industrial Relations
- Quality
- Constructability
- Readiness
- Installation of instruments, erection of containment, pulling and securing of cables, punching, testing and energisation
- Turnover through to Mechanical Completion and Client Handover
- Cleanliness, preservation, and readiness for commissioning
- Leadership of client standards for “build it tight” and “build it clean”
- Coordination with EPC Discipline Instrumentation Leads for all instrumentation scope
- Coordination with Equipment Leads for hook-up to rotating and static equipment
- Coordination with SIP Lead for scaffolding requirements
- Coordinate with Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning Leads as part of a systemised completion and handover
- Coordinating with HSE Leads for ensuring testing and energisation is assessed, planned, and conducted using suitable methodology with appropriate exclusion and access controls
- Ensuring compliance with client specifications, project specifications, safety standards, and quality requirements
- Ensuring EPC reporting is compliant and reflects the status of the work
The role will involve close coordination with EPC engineering teams and site contractors through installation, turnover, testing, mechanical completion, and handover.
What makes you remarkable?
At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.
Expected
- HNC or higher in Instrumentation or Control Engineering or related discipline is preferred. Consideration will be given if time-served with suitable experience in similar roles
- Demonstrable experience in a similar role, on large scale EPC projects overseeing / managing instrumentation installation including instruments, field distribution panels, containment, cabling, glanding, preservation, punch out, walkdown, turnover and handover
- Proven skills with the ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to oversee construction planning and execution while maintaining safety and quality standards
Desirable
- Familiarity with multi-discipline interfaces and construction sequencing
- Experience in energy transition or large-scale industrial projects
- Participate in Self Verification and Oversight process
- Provide Client input to constructability and readiness process
- Provide oversight for the field execution of instrumentation works from installation through to mechanical completion and handover
- Ensure all instrumentation installation is installed, tested, and pre-commissioned in accordance with project requirements
- Monitor contractor performance for technical compliance, cleanliness, quality standards, and schedule adherence; raise NCRs where necessary
- Coordinate resolution of technical queries (TQs), deviations, and change requests with engineering and contractor teams
- Review contractor proposals, method statements and construction work packs for instrumentation activities
- Support construction planning and progress reporting, ensuring accurate daily / weekly / monthly updates from the contractor
- Participate in construction walkdowns and punch list management as part of mechanical completion
- Ensure discipline handover documentation / dossiers are complete and meet project requirements
- Identify and mitigate equipment specific risks, applying lessons learned and best practices throughout the project lifecycle
- Collaborate with other discipline leads and the main contractor to ensure seamless integration of instrumentation with other installation
- Lead “build it tight” and “build it clean” to drive contractor compliance
Full time
Posting Date: 2026-07-14
Lead Construction Engineer – Instrument employer: WOOD GROUP
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