At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead electrical construction activities and ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.
- Company: Join Wood, a global leader in high complexity projects and innovative solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, full-time hours, and opportunities for travel and professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic site-based role with potential for overtime and career advancement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on transformative projects while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in electrical construction and strong coordination abilities required.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Wood is currently recruiting for an Electrical Lead (Discipline Construction Lead) on a 12 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 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 will involve close coordination with EPC engineering teams and site contractors through installation, turnover, testing, mechanical completion, and handover.
The Role
As the Electrical Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing all electrical 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 electrical equipment, erection of containment, pulling and securing of cables, punching, testing and energisation of electrical systems
- 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 Electrical Leads for all electrical 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 lifting, testing and energisation is assessed, planned, and conducted ensuring suitable plant and methodology are in place 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.
Our Clients and Projects
Designing the future. Transforming the world.
Wood’s Projects business unit specialises in delivering predictable and consistent results in high complexity projects that include new technology, challenging construction logistics and, or sheer scale.
Just like the nature and expansiveness of our sectors, so is our Projects business, in its solutions, abilities and global track record.
Across any major capital project lifecycle, we provide a full suite of solutions from programme and project management, to engineering and design, procurement, construction and project delivery.
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Lead Construction Engineer – Electrical in Redcar employer: Wood PLC
Wood is an excellent employer, offering a supportive team culture that prioritises both professional and personal growth. With flexible working arrangements, a commitment to diversity and inclusion, and tailored development plans, employees can thrive in a dynamic environment while contributing to meaningful projects in the energy sector. The opportunity to connect with global experts and participate in the Energy Transition Academy further enhances the unique advantages of working at Wood's UK offices.
