Marine Electrical Site Lead (Installation & Testing)

Position: Marine Electrical Site Lead (Installation & Testing)
Job ID:  MESL1
Location: Stockton-on-Tees
Rate/Salary: £42 - £60k
Type: Permanent
Benefits: Lots of benefits

HSB Technical Ltd is a specialist recruiter within the Power & Propulsion, Shipbuilding, Shipping & Energy and Fire & Security sectors. We have a number of permanent and contract vacancies for multiple businesses across the UK and overseas.

Working as the Marine Electrical Site Lead you will: Lead six to twelve personnel and own the job from mobilisation through testing and handover.

You will supervise site teams, manage permits, tests, and documentation, liaise with clients and ships staff, and drive safe, efficient installation with FAT/SAT and commissioning support.

Duties and responsibilities of the Marine Electrical Site Lead:

• Supervise site teams and the allocation of daily work
• Conduct toolbox talks and coordinate RAMS
• Manage permits, isolations and safe systems of work
• Confirming drawings and cable schedules match the installation
• Monitoring workmanship, cable identification and termination quality
• Coordinating tools, test equipment and materials
• Recording progress, delays, variations and client instructions
• Liaising with the clients & ships staff
• Coordinating testing under an approved test procedure
• Supporting commissioning, harbour acceptance and sea trials
• Preparing daily progress reports and approving team timesheets
• Completing handover and punch-list documentation

Qualifications and requirement for the Marine Electrical Site Lead:

• Marine, offshore, shipyard or heavy-industrial electrical experience.
• Experience supervising electricians and technicians.
• Strong LV knowledge, preferably with some MV experience.
• Switchboard, MCC, MCCB/ACB, transformer and distribution-system experience.
• Power and control cable installation, glanding and termination experience.
• Familiarity with generators, drives, motors and temporary vessel power.
• Experience working from schematics, cable schedules and general-arrangement drawings.
• FAT, SAT, commissioning and fault-finding experience.
• Knowledge of isolation, permit-to-work and LOTO procedures.
• Experience liaising with vessel engineers, clients, class surveyors and subcontractors.

This vacancy is being advertised by HSB Technical who have been appointed to act as the recruitment consultancy for this role.