Role: Resident Electrical Engineer
Location: Plymouth
Duration: 12 months
Rate: DOE
Inside IR35: Umbrella
The purpose: Ensure the delivery of site quality by managing, providing advice and support, and witnessing the installation and commissioning process through construction works in the submarine refit complex. Primary focus will be electrical activity. You will be accountable to the Lead Construction Manager for day‑to‑day planning matters.
You will assist the construction and project team by providing advice and communicating with contractors and relevant internal stakeholders to resolve site issues and technical queries during construction in line with contract timescales.
You will ensure the contractor adheres to the scope of works and change requests, and you will undertake and record inspections to confirm adherence to scope and integrated test plans.
Responsibilities
- Ensure delivery of site quality by managing, providing advice and support, and witnessing the installation and commissioning process through construction works.
- Participate in problem solving for development of technical solutions to deficiencies or in the development of designs to overcome installation problems.
- Accountable to the Lead Construction Manager for day‑to‑day planning matters.
- Assist construction and project team by providing advice and communicating with contractors and relevant internal stakeholders to resolve site issues and technical queries.
- Ensure contractor adheres to scope of works and change requests.
- Undertake and record inspections to ensure adherence to scope and integrated test plans.
- Supervise and provide on‑the‑job guidance to junior staff.
- Make effective use of Learn from Experience information to develop and disseminate knowledge in relation to practical engineering and to maintain a record of development to substantiate the skills achieved.
- Support development, construction, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of facilities to ensure compliance with design intent and client expectations for nuclear‑related works, together with all relevant local and national regulations and legislation.
Qualifications and Experience Requirements
- Design of electrical building services, including fire detection and alarm systems, industrial lighting and emergency lighting, site broadcast (PA) and HVAC.
- Sound understanding of company and departmental procedures relating to health and safety, design and quality.
- Ability to demonstrate relevant knowledge and skills required in the resolution of onsite electrical issues of complex systems throughout the construction lifecycle.
- Provide advice based on onsite experience to designers to enable them to develop the design.
- Sound understanding of company and departmental procedures relating to design, health & safety and quality requirements, and ability to manage projects in accordance with these procedures.
- Working knowledge of relevant engineering office computer applications.
- Ideally experience of design support to construction, operation, refit/repair of conventional and nuclear submarines and/or facilities.
Due to the nature of the work carried out at our client’s site, this role is subject to specific nationality requirements and is only open to sole British citizens. Candidates who meet this criterion will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting.
