Infrastructure Services – Site Manager Newcastle

Location:
Newcastle
Employment Type:
Permanent Employee

Role Summary

Day to day supervision of the infrastructure services implementation teams(s) conducting works to deliver customer projects and requirements. Direct responsibility for the welfare of the engineering resources, ensuring installation documentation is completed, assisting with site surveys, rams, co-ordination plans and quotations.

Key Responsibilities

Scope and plan works – as per project installation methods

  • Complete and ensure all relevant h&s documentation is available, understood, and adhered to

  • Management of materials required for works

  • Setup site & maintain site as per the rams

  • Complete point-of-work risk assessments and ensure safe systems of work are reviewed and carried out before work commences, and that any risks are communicated to the team

  • Complete all plant inspections, including power, hand tools, and test instruments, ensuring that they are in good and safe condition, and that any defects are reported to the plant hire company or line manager

  • Report any misuse or inadequate first-aid facilities during working hours

  • Set a personal example, including the wearing or use of protective clothing or equipment as appropriate

  • Ensure all safety measures which are in place apply to third parties and sub-contractors

  • Check all permits and ensure that they are relevant and appropriate for the scheduled works

  • Update all relevant project information as detailed in the job packs issued to them

  • Ensure that all plant is stored, used correctly and on charge after use

  • Make sure that all processes as detailed out in the project folder/job pack are adhered to and reported on

  • Report incidents which have led or may lead to injury

  • Quality assurance – completion of qa docs

  • Daily shift update reports at the end of each shift

Assist team, where required, with:

  • Network cabinet installations

  • Primary & secondary containment system installations

  • Installation of cat6 or cat6a horizontal cabling solutions

  • Termination, testing & labelling of cat6 / cat6a solutions

  • Network switch and wireless access point installation

  • Copper patching

  • Installation of fibre optic cable both internally & via pit and duct routes as required

  • Termination, testing & labelling of fibre optic cables

  • Fibre circuit patching & troubleshooting with the use of an otdr

Knowledge & Skills

Essential
  • Experience of terminating fibre optic cables (cold cure and splicing)

  • Experience of terminating copper cabling (Category 5e, category 6 etc)

  • Experience of testing both fibre optic and copper cables using Fluke Testers

  • Good knowledge of current installation practices

  • Ability to work as part of a close team to high standards of workmanship.

 Desirable
  • Knowledge of OTDR testing would be an advantage.

Key Attributes

Essential
  • Good leadership and motivational qualities

  • Good communication skills

  • Willingness for continual improvement

Experience & Attainments

Essential
  • Managing engineering resources within a customer environment

Additional Requirements

This role is to be based within the North West of England. Whilst primarily associated with a single customer campus, there may be a requirement for travel across the North should customer demand require it.