Wood
Lead Construction Engineer – Electrical
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Wood is currently recruiting for a 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.
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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
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The role will involve close coordination with EPC engineering teams and site contractors through installation, turnover, testing, mechanical completion, and handover.
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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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Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara - a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies. www.woodgroup.com
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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 the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): 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.
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