Site Construction Supervisor

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Inverness - United Kingdom

Transmission & Grid

Reference no. 11908

Site Construction Supervisor
Reports to: Construction Package Project Manager
Key Responsibilities

Provide leadership and management to the supply chain through the multidisciplinary supervision and reporting of the works, assisted by the wider project teams and support functions, maintaining effective communication to ensure that there is consistency in the understanding of the requirements, obligations, constraints, interfaces, status and priorities of the project at all times. This will include regular and accurate project reporting on works packages from site, on time, to the CPPM, SCM, CPM, Construction Project Director (“CPD”) and other senior leaders.
Principal responsibility for carrying out all site construction work safely on assigned works packages, including application of SSE safety license and safety family and working with the wider project team, contractors, consultants, suppliers and others to enhance existing and develop new initiatives to improve health, safety, wellbeing and environmental and quality performance.
Build excellent and sustainable relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including SSE senior management as appropriate, contractors, suppliers, landowners and community bodies and leaders in a manner which enhances the reputation of the project and SSE.
Assist in ensuring clarity of scope and controlled and recorded management of change throughout the project refinement and delivery phases with particular attention to ensuring alignment and management of site works interfaces across all disciplines, works packages, contracts and services provided by the team and the supply chain through delivery.
Responsible for supporting the timely submission, review and approval of the design deliverables to comply with the requirements of the contract and the quality of work delivered at site in terms of meeting standards and requirements related to health, safety and wellbeing, environment and sustainability, quality control and defect management, or other contracted works information, specifications, schedules, exhibits, requirements documents and so on and so forth.
Responsible for supporting the CPPM in the timely administration of the works package contracts including supervision and reporting of the works scope, programme, finances and risk including the assisting in ensuring the accuracy of the various schedules, programmes, budgets, cost reporting and forecasting, payments, insurances, risk registers and reduction planning seeking to avoid or mitigate threats and develop opportunities, capturing lessons for sharing across the portfolios.
Timely escalation of site issues to the CPPM / CPM to minimise any adverse impact to the project.
Supporting the CPPM in the management and coordination of project resources throughout definition, refinement and delivery of works packages particularly relating to the supply chain of contractors, consultants and other service providers, with a focus on achieving the best value.
Delivery of all necessary LCP Gate requirements to support project progression through Gates 3, 4 & 5 as well as providing required support to the project team during the construction period.
The role will include extended periods of living and working away from home and/or office base whilst deployed to sites during delivery of early works or full construction and will require the holder to have the ability to competently operate 4x4 vehicles in an off-road capacity.

1. Safety, Health & Wellbeing (SHW)

Demonstrate safety leadership and promote a positive safety culture throughout project definition, refinement and delivery ensuring that the SSE Safety Family licence ‘if it’s not safe, we don’t do it’ is the guiding principle within the management of safety, health and wellbeing and integral to all construction phase projects.
Responsible, with support from the wider project team and support functions, for ensuring the timely preparation, submission and review (where required) of all contractors’ safety, health and wellbeing documentation required to be produced in accordance with the contract, organisational policies, regulation or other legislative or authoritative requirements.
Responsible for monitoring the works at site to ensure the contractors’, consultants’, suppliers’ or other members of the supply chain compliance with their obligations in the safety, health and wellbeing documentation produced in accordance with the contract, organisational policies, regulation or other legislative or authoritative requirements and to monitor the ongoing suitability of the documentation.
Providing safety observation, good catch / near miss, incident and accident reporting and supporting investigation as may be required by the CPPM, SCM, CPM or other senior leaders.

2. Sustainability & Environment

Demonstrate sustainability in leadership through management of a diverse and inclusive team, promoting a just transition in the pursuit of SSE Renewables NZAP+ targets and associated sustainability goals and accountable for the embedment and implementation of project specific sustainability planning and in delivery arrangements for the project.
Support the Environmental Advisor / Manager, with support from the wider project team and support functions, in ensuring the timely preparation, submission, review (where required) of all contractors’ environmental or sustainability documentation required to be produced in accordance with the contract, organisational policies, regulation or other legislative or authoritative requirements and for monitoring the site works and management to ensure the contractors’, consultants’, suppliers’ or other members of the supply chain compliance with their stated obligations.
Providing environmental observation, good catch / near miss and incident reporting and supporting investigation as may be required by the CWPM / CPM or other senior leaders.
Supporting the Environmental Advisor / Manager in the site coordination of the supply chain as required, including between contractors and retained consultants (archaeological, ecological, geotechnical, etc.), to maintain the compliance of the works with the project obligations and constraints whilst maintaining the commercial performance of the works.

3. Project Execution Planning

Responsible for maintaining familiarity with the latest revision of the Project Execution Plan (PEP), or Project Management Plan (PMP) as appropriate in line with the LCP Governance Framework.
Responsible for assisting the project team in the production, maintenance and delivery of the subordinate supporting management plans setting out the project delivery arrangements across the project disciplines where they relate to the site works.
Responsible for providing support to the CPPM and wider project team in relation to the discharge of obligations relating to consents, permission, permits, licenses, appointments and notifications required to facilitate the works and wider project including but not limited to land agreements, planning consents, local authority approvals and permits, environmental licenses, etc.
Responsible, in conjunction with other SCSs, SCMs, CPPMs, the CPM and support functions, for participating in combined multidisciplinary engineering and works package reviews to ensure clarity of interfaces, inclusion of lessons learned and varied experience input to definition of works scope

4. Construction Management Agreements and JV Management (where applicable)

Support the CPPM in the delivery of the scope of the Construction Management Agreements (CMA) with SSE Renewables acting as the construction management ‘Service Provider’ to the SPV and/or any Joint Venture Project Company.

5. Contract and Commercial Management

Responsible for supporting the CPPM where required in the production of robust project and works package specific contract documents such as works information, specifications, schedules, exhibits and requirements documents in conjunction with Engineering, Procurement & Commercial and other support functions which clearly define the scope of works, quality, cost and programme requirements, fairly and accurately assign risk in line with the contract conditions and fully account for interfaces with other works packages and services.
Responsible for supporting the CPPM in the timely and accurate administration of the works packages contract, fulfilling the required duties when assigned as a named representative under the relevant form of contract or professional services agreement (e.g. NEC Supervisor).
The SCS shall escalate any matters requiring support from the CPPM or CPM and provide the necessary information and/or evidence required to support escalation meetings with Senior
Management representatives from the Contractors as and when required by the CPPM or CPM to effectively resolve disputes. The SCS will assist the CPPM in ensuing due process is being followed under the Contract and will always protect the commercial interests of the Project Company.

6. Investment Appraisal/Business Case

Ensuring site matters with potential implications to cost or programme are reported to the CPPM.

Management of the works package site construction activities to seek to continuously improve and deliver the Business Case for the project referenced against Financial Close.
The role holder is also responsible for the successful delivery of the works package site construction activities to meet or exceed the economic measures defined within the approved Business Case.

7. Quality and Asset Integrity Management

Responsible for the compliance of the site construction activities with the approved quality management plans for the assigned works packages, including adherence to contract requirements, design control, inspection and testing, non-conformance and/or defect identification, notification and correction to monitor, verify and validate all engineering, design and work package delivery activities to ensure the technical and operational integrity targets for the assets are attained.

8. Project Team Direction

Responsible for accommodating a programme of visible senior management support from the UK&I
Development & Construction business unit and supporting functions seeking to provide tiered positive leadership to the project team within the project delivery arrangements.
Responsible for seeking support from the CPPM on direction, priorities, people management and performance management as and when necessary to ensure best possible consistency in the way work packages and projects are delivered across the portfolio.
Assisting the CPD’s management of project resource levels by identifying requirements to the CPPM and occasionally assisting in sourcing suitably qualified and experienced personnel.
Seeking direction, guidance and support from the CPPM, SCM and CPM where required for the overall project delivery and relationship management with senior leaders within the SSE organisation, contractors, external statutory bodies, external funders, supply chain partners and other key stakeholders.