Mechanical & Piping Superintendent

Wood Pharma and Life Sciences is looking to recruit a Pharmaceutical Superintendent with Mechanical & Piping competence. This is a permanent staff role based on a large pharmaceutical client site in Hertfordshire. The preferred candidate will have experience of working on large scale EPC projects.

Responsibilities

• Perform an inspection upon receipt of equipment against the current equipment data sheets and GA drawings.
• Ensure that contractors carry out all preservation and maintenance checks with IMRC cards readily available and up to date.
• Ensure all quality control checks and tests are instigated, with records maintained and available as required for foundation acceptance, grout release, vessel closure, tower and drum acceptance, heat exchanger inspection, pump installation, cold alignment etc., all in accordance with contractors’ agreed ITP, method statements and project specifications.
• Coordinate with all necessary disciplines to ensure package equipment is installed and hooked up in a timely and efficient manner.
• Ensure efficient use of specialist vendor representatives, arranging contractor support and Client witness as required in accordance with the commissioning handover and start-up schedule.
• In conjunction with each contractor, develop a schedule of tie-in, interface and terminal points.
• Supervise and coordinate the activities of construction supervisors and engineers within assigned areas.
• Provide daily supervisory surveillance checks and records, ensuring that contractors’ management and supervision are providing safe working conditions and permitting procedures.
• Routinely study, check, review and validate the discipline scope of work against the appropriate Contract Requisition.
• Ensure proper control of changes by issuing FI’s for all changes, reviewing TQ’s to ensure responses are appropriate and practical.
• Utilize weekly coordination meetings with other discipline superintendents to provide logical progress and target completions as per the contract schedule and daily work plan.
• Ensure that area/hand over documentation is available and relevant.
• Ensure that contractors survey and accept their work areas and commence contracted works within schedule time requirements.
• Agree the extent and location of lay-down and workshop areas, access routes and material receipt, preservation and storage procedures with contractors’ management and supervision.
• Ensure practical security and protection of the works and that all contractors’ provisions for temporary lighting, transport, vehicles, plant and equipment, hand tools are in adequate supply and totally fit for purpose.
• Ensure that contractors are working in the required work areas, locations, elevations and sequence of work.
• Develop detailed daily and weekly work plans to facilitate project schedule completions.
• Ensure supervisors/inspectors carry out the witness, inspection and surveillance checks in accordance with contractor discipline Inspection and Test Plans.
• Ensure contractors Quality Control checks and tests are properly recorded and are in compliance with project specifications, AFC drawings, and method statements.
• Ensure all approved modifications to Works are recorded on red-lined ‘as-built’ drawings.
• Review and communicate to Wood staff and contractors the commissioning procedural execution and inspection criteria for all pre-commissioning activities.
• Proactively assess Contractors’ against agreed schedules and milestones, and challenge/support as necessary Contractor ability to achieve required progress.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience as a Mechanical & Piping Superintendent.
• Experience of working on a Pharmaceutical site.
• Experience of GMP.
• Technically qualified/time served trades person with trade registrations/vocational qualifications.
• UK wide EPC or EPCm experience.
• Knowledge of local labour market.
• Demonstrable experience of managing direct labour.
• Working knowledge of relevant legislation, codes and standards with the ability to manage contractors.
• Computer literate (MS Office components).

Company Overview

Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people.

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.