Mechanical Superintendent

Mechanical Superintendent

Job Type:

Permanent

Job Sector:

Engineering

Region:

South West

Location:

Bridgwater

Salary:

60,000 to 75,000 per annum

Salary Description:

Accommodation Allowance

Posted:

03/07/2025

Recruiter:

ASTUTE Technical Recruitment Ltd

Job Ref:

BBBH25440

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

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