Leading Cable Hand

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom EDF Full time £40,000 - £60,000 per year

The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

Leading Cable Hand – MEH / HPC
Balfour Beatty
Hinkley Point C

Job Responsibilities

  • Ensure packages comply with good design practice and relevant technical group standards.
  • Ensure that the package is executed with minimum rework.
  • Plan, lead, and direct multiple cable teams to achieve installation targets.
  • Allocate tasks, monitor productivity, and ensure correct resource deployment.
  • Support training and mentoring of less experienced cable hands.
  • Ensure all aspects of LV, MV, and HV cable installation, containment, routing, and final fixing are to specifications
  • Act as the point of contact between Supervisors / Cable Chargehand and the workforce.
  • Conduct inspections and quality checks to verify installation meets acceptance criteria.
  • Provide hands-on technical guidance where required to resolve issues.
  • Ensure compliance with Sellafield nuclear safety rules, permits to work, method statements, and risk assessments.
  • Oversee the installation, pulling, dressing and final fixing of cables.
  • Stop work and escalate immediately if unsafe practices or conditions are identified.
  • Liaise with engineers, supervisors, cable chargehand and other trades to coordinate activities.
  • Assist with material requisitioning, logistics, and ensuring the correct equipment and materials are available as required
  • Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm and contribute toward observation and other KPIs
  • Health, Safety, Environment & Quality (HSEQ)
  • Lead by example in maintaining a strong safety-first culture.
  • Ensure that the project team are notified of all potential opportunities and risks
  • Proactively identify and resolve installation issues promptly to minimise delays.
  • Support in scheduling obligations our required work durations & sequences
  • Record and report progress (Daily / Weekly)
  • Track progress against installation schedules and report on performance, risks, and delays.

The following qualifications or their equivalent are essential:

  • ECS / CSCS Card - Leading Cable Hand
  • IOSH Working Safely or equivalent (minimum requirement)
  • SSSTS or equivalent supervisory safety training (preferred).
  • Manual Handling, Cable Pulling, and Working at Height competency training.
  • First Aid at Work (desirable).
  • Proven experience of leading cabling teams and overseeing cable installation in the nuclear sector
  • Strong technical knowledge in all aspects of cabling including, segregation requirements, cable fixing specifications and winching operations
  • Ambitious and keen to progress through ECS / JIB Cable grading system
  • Can obtain the required security clearances
  • High levels of integrity

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

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