Construction Advisor

Wood is currently recruiting for a Specialist Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) Construction Advisor to support the NEP HCCP Project on a PSC Agency basis. This role is based on site in the Humber region and is offered as an initial 8-month contract, with the potential for extension. Occasional visits to Wood's Staines office will be required as needed.

• Act as the main point of contact for all Trail HDD Construction activities
• Assure integrity of Trial HDD Contactors methods and schedule
• Provide technical oversight and assurance of contractor deliverables
• Provide daily activities reports detailing working conditions, progress, and issues (Safety, quality, performance)
• Support NEP QS in managing contract interfaces
• Project Scope management
• Ensures the project Quality Management System supports deliverables preparation and method of execution
• Ensures instructions are issued to allow work to progress and facilitates agreement between conflicting requirements and leads way forward
• Challenges the working method and deliverables and ensures team know and comply with project scope
• Understands the project Health, Safety, Environment and Security (HSES) issues and ensures these are managed correctly
• Identifies risk and implements mitigations
• Verification of the site activities compliance with the contract and HSSE requirements
• Verification of the contractor's progress
• Prioritisation of the contractor's activities in line with the project schedule
• Contractors performance monitoring and reporting (Cost, Schedule and KPIs)
• MOC and Risk Management process implementation and monitoring relevant to the Trial HDD scope
• Interface management between Client, Principal Designer and Principal Contractors
• Support FEED scope with construction expertise
• Provide input into engineering deliverables (PL route, crossing etc.)
• Lead constructability review
• Support DCO examination stage
• Provide input into the Execute schedule and Cost estimate

• Extensive pipeline and Horizontal Direct Drilling (HDD) construction advisor experience