Lead Construction Engineer – Instrument in Redcar

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.

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.

Expected qualifications include HNC or higher in Instrumentation or Control Engineering or related discipline. Consideration will be given if time-served with suitable experience in similar roles. You should have 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 are essential.

Desirable qualifications include familiarity with multi-discipline interfaces and construction sequencing, experience in energy transition or large-scale industrial projects, and participation in Self Verification and Oversight process.