WTG Electrical Installation & Communication Supervisor

Ramboll Group A/S; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in the UK seeks an Electrical Installation & Commissioning Supervisor to ensure successful installation and safety management at Wind Turbine projects. The role involves supervising teams, facilitating communication, and ensuring adherence to quality and safety standards. The ideal candidate will have a degree in engineering, recent experience with electrical systems, and strong communication skills. The position offers a commitment to development and expects dedication to safety and quality in a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Commitment to personal development

Flexible working conditions

Qualifications

• Recent experience in installation, testing, and commissioning of electrical systems.
• UKOG Medical + Chester Step Test required.
• GWO training completion, including Basic Safety and High Voltage standards.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate communication between site and back-office teams.
• Supervise delivery and installation of electrical equipment.
• Conduct safety training and ensure compliance on-site.

Skills

Installation supervision

Electrical safety compliance

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Job description

Do you want to be part of the Installation and commissioning supervisor team for our clients Wind Turbine Farm in the UK?

We need supervisors to guide management and liaise with back-office engineers to ensure the electrical installation and commissioning of the Wind Turbine farm, creating a clear insight into progress, risks, quality, and safety on site. The supervisors shall as well motivate progress and a safe work culture, through contractor engagement, coordination, and collaboration.

If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our Energy division as our new electrical installation & commissioning supervisor and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

Your new role

As one of our Electrical Site supervisors, you will work with the project team to deliver solutions to our clients. You will be part of the Energy division in the UK. You will be a part of an organisation that are flexible, innovative, international, and supportive to our clients. You will collaborate with your colleagues and play a critical role in the installation and commissioning of the Wind Turbine Farm onshore and offshore.

Your key responsibilities will be:

It is the WTG Electrical Installation & Commissioning Supervisor’s responsibility to facilitate constructive and fact-based communication between activities at site, WTG Electrical Installation & Commissioning Management, and back-office functions within the project. Through honest observation-based feedback on progress and quality, enabling, especially the WTG Electrical Installation & Commissioning Manager, to conduct solid risk assessments, present realistic forecasts to project management, and prepare for a smooth handover to Generation. On site the WTG Electrical Installation & Commissioning Supervisor is a role model for safe behaviour, inspiring contractors, sub-contractors, and site visitors to always think safety before quality and progress. Furthermore, the WTG Electrical Installation & Commissioning Supervisor shall engage with the contractor and working party foremen to understand and obtain knowledge of issues related to quality and progress, collaborating with them to identify suitable mitigations, and finally reporting findings and contractor proposed mitigations to WTG Electrical Installation & Commissioning Management.

Your tasks will be:

• Facilitate alignment meetings with respectively back-office engineers, Client QA on other sites, and on-site contractor team leads – enabling collaboration through open communication on quality, progress, and safety.
• Update Electrical Installation & Commissioning Management on system specific progress, risks, and quality – providing observation-based input to scope related progress and risks.
• Review contractor ITP and test plans and procedures, and witness all test phases (FAT, SAT, SIT, OSAT, and OSIT) based on the Critical to Functionality (CtF) and Critical to Quality (CtQ) guidelines from the functional line department and project specific assessment.
• Supervise delivery of equipment, ensuring that all damages and missing equipment is recorded and addressed to the contactor. This includes familiarisation with shipping lists and reviewing equipment unloading Risk Assessment & Method Statements (RAMS)
• Supervise the contractors’ handling and installation of equipment during the outfitting and electrical installation, including pulling and termination of cables focusing on CtF and CtQ.
• On projects with multiple contractors directly reporting to Client on site, coordinate the on-site cross contractor interfaces and collaboration.
• Supervise qualification (mechanical completion) of the installed equipment and cables (high voltage, low voltage, control and communication cables).
• Execute Low Voltage and High Voltage Authorised Person (LV AP) scope, involving establishing and maintaining electrical safety, lock out/tag out, and energisation checks.
• Execute inspections and tests relevant for the Test After Completion prior to asset handover to Generation.
• Provide lessons learned and improvement proposals, based on NCR’s, punches, and through using the processes and procedures supplied by the functional line department, enabling a continuous development of Client’s contracts and the standard processes and procedures, ensuring Client and the Electrical Installation & Commissioning Supervisor role always keep up with contemporary needs.
• Take location and task-based safety training (e.g. Global Wind Organisation (GWO) training, and local supervisor safety certifications), observe and intervene on site based on safety on site, and report to the Client QHSE representative on site.

Deliverables and success criteria's:

• Completed Commissioning Document Register (CDR). Reporting to the WTG Electrical and Installation & Commissioning Manager
• Record system progress and provide daily input to the Daily Progress Report (DPR) using Lautec.(visualised through EnSync)
• Minutes of Meeting from regular alignment meetings with respectively back-office engineers and site-based contractors. (stored within project document management system)
• Rectified and closed out punches for all electrical and electromechanical systems. (recorded in Aconex Field)
• Recorded lessons learned and improvement proposals within. Synergi (responsible and actions defined in the Synergi cases)
• Inform about HSE related observation (observation cards or app, viewable by site HSE representative)
• Through witnessing of installation and test, the Onshore and offshore Electrical Installation and Commissioning Supervisor has the authority to accept or reject completion of test and commissioning, based on the contractual requirements and the project mandated requirements and acceptance criteria.

About you

• Positive mindset, solution oriented with focus on the safety, quality and progress
• Open minded and with a personality that can adapt to the environment needed
• Flexible in terms of working rotations onshore and offshore

Qualifications and requirements

• Have recent experience and obtained competencies with installation, test, and commissioning of dynamic systems, equipment, components, and cables (i.e. high and low voltage electrical, electromechanical, mechanical, fluid, thermo, and multidiscipline dynamic systems) and control & communication systems, equipment, components, and cables (i.e. supervisory control & data acquisition, network, and telecommunication systems), preferable from large electrical installations e.i. Wind Turbine Generators and Farms.
• UKOG Medical + Chester Step Test (minimum rating: above average). GWO training, following GWO Basic Safety Training Standard, GWO Enhanced First Aid Training Standard, GWO Control of Hazardous Energies Standard, and GWO High Voltage Standard.
• Possess a bachelor or higher educational degree within subject matter field of engineering
• Or posses experiences and obtained competences from installation, test and commissioning of large Wind Turbine Generators e.i Wind Turbines Farms onshore and offshore
• Very good communication skills in English, written and verbal

What we can offer you

• Commitment to your development
• A culture that welcomes you as the unique person you are
• The long-term thinking of a foundation-owned company
• Project based hire, period of 1 to 2 years
• Wind Turbine Farm, Start of site activities – Autumn 2026
• Location onshore will be Hartlepool and Hull
• Offshore will take place in the North Sea outside the Norfolk coast

Ready to join us?

Please submit your application and CV online. We invite diversity in all its forms and encourage applicants from all groups to apply.

Deadline: 06/02/2026

Do you have any questions?

Contact: Team leader Erhardt Christensen cell phone: [phone] or Head of Department Jens i Arnafirdi Hansen cell phone: [phone]

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