Senior Site Supervisor

Overview

Lead construction delivery of baggage handling systems, overseeing site teams, safety, and schedule.

Key Responsibilities

• installation oversight
• commissioning review
• wiring tests
• logistics planning
• electromechanical install
• safety inspections

Tasks

-Monitor Installation quality, timelines, and costs to ensure compliance with standards and budget constraints while providing timely information to stakeholders. Identify, analyse, and address potential problems, risks, and opportunities through proactive corrective and preventive actions, optimising project outcomes. -Verifying Entry Criteria for Commissioning and Installation & Testing Stages -Manage interactions with all project stakeholders to facilitate smooth coordination and communication, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives. Provide regular and accurate reports to customers, Project Managers, keeping stakeholders informed of installation progress and key milestones. -Manage field wiring tests before and after power-on, including safety-related tests -Collaborating on the creation of Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) Plans -Manage mechanical static inspections and I/O (Input/Output) tests -Updating Schedules (Detail, Supply & Installation; Testing & Commission) -Analyse projects and prepare site logistics proposals, including logistics planning and management. -Requesting quotes from supply centres -Handling sales requests for supply centres -Advise and oversee contracts with Electrical & Mechanical (E&M) subcontractors, ensuring compliance with project specifications and requirements. -Oversee Logistics and materials being receiving on-site -Developing the initial Master Schedule -Prepare sites and assess areas for installation readiness. -Creating the Installation File -Manage electrical and EM (Electromechanical) installations, including inspections and testing -Ensure adherence to the Vanderlande Process Map and initiate improvements in site management processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the project team, identifying areas for enhancement and implementing best practices to optimize project outcomes. -Organize and facilitate all support activities to ensure a smooth high-quality handover to commissioning and support commissioning & testing teams until handover to the customer -Checking the readiness of project areas and the criteria for commissioning and installation/testing stages. -Collecting HSE Plans from sub-contractors. -Oversee power-up procedures -Lead and mentor a team of supervisors throughout the project lifecycle, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment. Promote a strong culture of safety among project teams, emphasizing adherence to safety protocols and practices to ensure a safe working environment -Create detailed site logistics and management plans. -Lead the development of comprehensive project installation plans in collaboration with the Project Manager, encompassing objectives, organisation, planning, and cost calculations. -Conduct safety inspections and ensure compliance with safety protocol -Oversee installation, and handover of steelwork and manage rest materials (reverse logistics)

Requirements

• site planning
• team management
• engineering drawings
• material handling
• cdm regulations
• project lifecycle

What You Bring

-Ability to create robust site planning to complement the master project schedule through owning last planner activities and management of the Look ahead schedule -Managing a multi-functional team, interfacing with clients where appropriate, and chairing meetings locally at site level as required. Adept at conflict resolution -Possess the ability to understand engineering drawings, specifications, layouts and successfully interpret project schedules -Experience in successfully managing teams during delivery of medium and large Automated Material Handling or Baggage Handling System projects. -Possess an awareness and understanding of CDM Regulations and HASWA. -Successful proven management on of all phases within a project lifecycle, ranging from pre-construction through to handover

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Benefits

-Pension with Aviva -Achievers – Employee recognition platform -Bupa Medical Cover -Cycle to work scheme -A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression. -28 days of annual leave (excluding public holidays) -YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers

About Vanderlande

-Grew under the name Rapistan Lande in the 1960s, adopting 'Vanderlande' in 1989 and expanding internationally into material-handling automation. -Delivers integrated solutions—innovative systems, smart software, and lifecycle services—to warehouses, airports, and parcel hubs. -Its baggage systems operate in numerous airports, moving a large volume of bags annually. -Parcel systems sort millions of items daily. -FY2024 net revenue reached about €2.2 billion, supported by a healthy order book and steady intake. -Typical projects include large-scale airport baggage halls, e-commerce warehouse sortation, and parcel distribution hubs. -Specializes in airport baggage handling, warehouse automation, and parcel-sorting systems—trusted by top global retailers. -Unusual fact: 9 of the 15 largest food retailers rely on its warehouse systems, processing deliveries for same-day promises worldwide.

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