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Mechanical Lead

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Overview

Bilfinger is a leading international industrial services provider. The Group enhances the efficiency of assets, ensures a high level of availability and reduces maintenance costs.


The portfolio covers the entire value chain from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, maintenance, plant expansion as well as turnarounds and also includes environmental technologies and digital applications. We therefore rely on employees who bring a broad range experience, qualifications and perspectives to the work they do.


Responsibilities

  • Managing Mechanical Project works on site and reporting direct to the Project Management Team.
  • Identify and confirm the current status of all sub systems owned with regards to Construction, Completions, Quality and Commissioning.
  • Collate all current design documentation of the systems to identify the current status of the document and action as required to be available for use.
  • Liaise frequently with the Completions team to know the exact status of each sub system with regards to check sheet status for each individual tag.
  • Attend frequent planning sessions to review the PFA to be aware of key dates, upcoming scopes, any required vendor site visits.
  • Manage all required vendors for site visits (dates, site access, Purchase Orders etc).
  • Be a HSE champion for the area/buildings.
  • Attend progress update meetings with the client constantly demonstrating system status knowledge with the required information to hand.
  • Attend resource requirement meetings with the Leadership team to fulfil any scopes coming up.
  • Chair frequent meetings as required in readiness for upcoming scopes including the development of action trackers of current issues and actions to be addressed.
  • Liaise frequently with the Quality team to maintain the concurrency of the LTQR's associated with the systems in preparation for handover.

Qualifications & Experience

  • CSCS Card required / An industry applicable HNC (desirable) ONC or City & Guilds / NVQ equivalent
  • Relevant H&S qualifications (IOSH or CITB 5 Day Site Safety Management, A relevant CSCS card and First Aid training)
  • Construction Manager NVQ level 6.
  • Qualifying Manager with Technical knowledge of M&E scopes
  • Good Microsoft Office knowledge including Word, Excel & Outlook
  • Planning knowledge (P6 Primavera)
  • Manage supply chain and sub-contractors
  • Knowledge of ORIBIT completes software would be an advantage
  • Self motivation
  • Be able to organise yourself and others workload
  • Be proactive in your approach
  • An excellent communicator
  • A high level of diplomacy and client focused
  • Must be able to obtain SC clearance

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