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Mechanical Superintendent

Bridgwater
5 days ago
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Astute's Nuclear team is exclusively partnered with a speciality lifting and handling equipment business, acting as the lifting principal contractor on Hinkley Point C to recruit a Black Hat Supervisor/Mechanical Superindendent for its Hinkley Point C project.

The Mechanical Superindendent will play a critical role in holding responsibility for the assembly, installation, commissioning and maintenance direction and comes with a base salary upto £75,000 depending on experience and a wealth of opportunity to work on prestigious nuclear projects in the UK.

If you're a Mechanical Supervisor with gantry or crane experience, and are looking for work then submit your CV to apply today.

Responsibilities and duties

Reporting to the Construction Manager you will:

Supervising lifting execution of site / compound activities on and off HPC site.
Responsible for control and day to day management of the labour and plant resources to achieve targets
Interface with management, and other 3rd party black hats in interfacing works areas on site matters
Day to day management of site labour resources and delivering pre work briefings for safety. Setting labour to work on time, controlling breaktimes and return to the workface and working up to the stipulated end of shift). Maintaining records of labour performance and punctuality and reporting to manager.
Consistent review of all work locations to identify and control any potential departure from approved drawings and procedures.

Professional qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

A Mechanical Engineering background, holding a qualification to a minimum of HNC/NVQ Level 3, etc.
CCNSG Safety Passport.
SSSTS/IOSH Managing Safely

Personal skills

The Black Hat Supervisor role would suit someone who is:

Worked in a heavy industrial setting (Power generation, aerospace, rail, nuclear, steel forging, manufacturing, heavy lifting) on cranes.
Worked in a maintenance, installation, assembly, servicing setting.

Salary and benefits of the Black Hat Supervisor role

A salary upto £75,000 depending on experience
Overtime where desired
25 days annual leave + bank holidays.

INDNUC

Astute People are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. We do not discriminate on the grounds of age, race, gender, disability, creed or sexual orientation and comply with all relevant UK legislation. We encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Astute is also committed to the government's Disability Confident Employer initiative. We endeavour to get back to everyone, however, if you have not heard anything after 7 days, please consider your application unsuccessful

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