Piping Supervisor

**Piping Supervisor - Black Hat**

Location: Somerset

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.

This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

The Black Hat Supervisor is a non-working supervisor who will lead a team of mechanical tradesmen, ensuring that they complete assigned tasks in a safe, effective and timely manner.

Perform a wide range of duties to include but not be limited to the following:

- Ensure safe and responsible working and full compliance to Company and Site safety procedures.
- Ensure all work is carried out in a productive and cost effective manner.
- Support site-benchmarking initiatives.
- Ensure site/plant priorities are addressed in a timely manner and support company/site initiatives.
- Maintain the highest standards of health and safety, environmental performance and industrial relations.
- Ensure acceptable level of performance from Supervision under your control.
- Ensure good 360° communications with trade teams.
- Uphold the Companies purpose and BIS UK Golden Rules.
- Coaching and mentoring workforce, understanding.
- Man hour targets and having clear roles and accountabilities.
- Ensure supervision are aware of required safety standards.
- Ensure a process of measuring and reducing rework.
- Where scopes of work change ensure these changes are captured and processed.
- Ensure time/allocation bookings are correct.
- Maintain links between all sub-contractors.
- Forward thinking regarding resources to allow for execution of work packages.
- Ensure frequent and clear communications are maintained with sub-contractors and the client.
- Support Project Manager/Engineer initiatives.
- Provide clear and concise updates to area engineers.
- Have a minimum 5 hours of contact time on site during normal working day.
- Ensure supervisor contact time with blue collar is at maximum.

**Role Qualifications**:
**One of the following from**:

- Level 3 Apprenticeship in Engineering Construction - Pipefitter Standard (ST0162)
- Diploma in Installing Engineering Construction Plant and Systems - Pipefitting
- ECITB Diploma in Installing Engineering Construction Plant and Systems - Pipefitting SCQF Level 6
- ECITB Skills Test Alternative / Skills Test Number: TPF05
- ACE Card

**Supervisor Qualifications**:

- Enrolment onto ILM Level 3 Certificate C&BE plus completion of Nuclear Unit or Nuclear Engineering Construction Supervisor (NECS)
- LATS or SMSTS or IOSH Managing Safety

**Mandatory**
- CCNSG

If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact 01224 246246.

Mechanical | Bilfinger UK Limited | Permanent | White-collar workers | Skilled | Operations