General information
Position description
Function
Onshore – Asset
Job title
Plater Superintendent
Job description
We are currently seeking candidates for 2 year fixed term positions at Hinkley Point C location. We would be looking to deploy in January and March 2026.
This role will be responsible for promoting and maintaining health and safety, including site inspections to ensure safety rules are implemented in support of a positive Nuclear Safety Culture. Provide oversight and coordination of multiple plating teams, each led by a non-working Supervisor, to ensure safe, high-quality, and efficient delivery to specification, schedule, and project requirements.
Key Deliverables:
- Champion safety and quality for all plating activities, ensuring a culture that supports nuclear safety and productivity.
- Coordinate and oversee the activities of multiple plating teams, ensuring delivery to specification, safety, quality, and schedule
- Provide technical instruction, resources, and support to Supervisors and their teams to enable effective delivery.
- Deliver safety briefs and toolbox talks, ensuring all team members understand requirements for new or unfamiliar activities.
- Monitor and check the work of teams to ensure adherence to safety, quality, and time parameters.
- Identify, monitor, and manage issues affecting productivity, developing and implementing improvements.
- Produce and review programmes and schedules for plating activities, ensuring alignment with project critical path.
- Liaise with Engineering, Project Management, and other discipline teams to resolve technical queries and coordinate interdependent activities.
- Lead, coach, and support Supervisors, including performance management, training, and development.
- Ensure compliance with all site and company health, safety, and environmental requirements.
Profile
Qualifications and Work Experience:
Essential: Level 3 Apprenticeship OR Level 3 Diploma in Plating, Fabrication, Welding, Structural Steelwork, Shipbuilding
Essential: ACE Card Level 3 in Plating (or equivalent)
Essential: CCNSG Safety Passport
Essential: Completion of ILM Level 3 Certificate C&BE (within 6 months of start date upon demonstration of enrolment) OR Completion of Nuclear Engineering Construction Supervisor (NECS) within 4 weeks of start date upon demonstration of booking and CMI Level 3 (following completion of NECS)
Essential: SMSTS (Site Management Safety Training Scheme) & IOSH Managing Safely
Essential: Demonstrable experience as a team leader or supervisor of operatives on-site, preferably in a nuclear or high-risk environment
Essential: Experience in managing multi-disciplined teams delivering within a large-scale construction or engineering project
Essential: Experience in performance management, coaching, and developing teams
Desirable: Connected Competence (https://connectedcompetence.co.uk/disciplines/)
Job Specific Knowledge:
Essential: Technical competence in plating/fabrication to the equivalent of trade competency qualifications
Essential: Commercial acumen relating to on-site productivity, wastage, and time/hours
Essential: Understanding of nuclear safety culture and regulatory requirements
Skills:
Essential: Strong leadership, coaching, and team-building skills
Essential: Effective communication and engagement abilities
Essential: Ability to build effective relationships across disciplines and levels
Essential: Problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Essential: Planning and organisational skills, including programme and resource management.
To be considered, candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
Socio-professional category
Employee / Technician / Supervisor
Contract type
2-Fixed Term
Large displacement
No
Position location
Job location
Europe, United Kingdom, Angleterre, South West England
Location
Somerset
Candidate criteria
Minimum level of education required
7- Others
Minimum level of experience required
All levels of experience
