Construction Advisor

Wood is currently recruiting for a Specialist Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) Construction Advisor to support the NEP HCCP Project on a PSC Agency basis.

This role is based on site in the Humber region and is offered as an initial 8-month contract, with the potential for extension. Occasional visits to Wood's Staines office will be required as needed.

The Construction Advisor is the focal point for all HDD Construction activities on the NEP HCCP Project. The role provides on-site Safety and Construction leadership to support delivery of the construction scope, ensuring that construction activities are best practice, and are delivered safely in line with the approved schedule.

The Construction Advisor shall demonstrate personal commitment to safety and cyber security through behaviour, awareness, and work with Contractors to ensure that the required attention is given.

Following the completion of NEP FEED scope with pipeline construction expertise.

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• Act as the main point of contact for all Trail HDD Construction activities

• Assure integrity of Trial HDD Contactors methods and schedule

• Provide technical oversight and assurance of contractor deliverables

• Provide daily activities reports detailing working conditions, progress, and issues (Safety, quality, performance)

• Support NEP QS in managing contract interfaces

• Project Scope management

• Ensures the project Quality Management System supports deliverables preparation and method of execution

• Ensures instructions are issued to allow work to progress and facilitates agreement between conflicting requirements and leads way forward

• Challenges the working method and deliverables and ensures team know and comply with project scope

• Understands the project Health, Safety, Environment and Security (HSES) issues and ensures these are managed correctly

• Identifies risk and implements mitigations

• Verification of the site activities compliance with the contract and HSSE requirements

• Verification of the contractor’s progress

• Prioritisation of the contractor’s activities in line with the project schedule

• Contractors performance monitoring and reporting (Cost, Schedule and KPIs)

• MOC and Risk Management process implementation and monitoring relevant to the Trial HDD scope

• Interface management between Client, Principal Designer and Principal Contractors

• Support FEED scope with construction expertise

• Provide input into engineering deliverables (PL route, crossing etc.)

• Lead constructability review

• Support DCO examination stage

• Provide input into the Execute schedule and Cost estimate

• Extensive pipeline and Horizontal Direct Drilling (HDD) construction advisor experience