Senior Authorised Person
Senior Authorised Person
Salary negotiable
Join a Tier-1 contractor as a Senior Authorised Person on a major project in Zurich, Switzerland. This contract role offers the opportunity to lead electrical safety on a cutting-edge construction project.
Key Highlights
- Lead electrical safety on a major construction project in Zurich
- Manage and enforce control of hazardous energies procedures
- Plan and execute safe electrical energizations, isolations, and switching
- Ensure compliance with jurisdictional regulations and client requirements
Senior Authorised Person — Role Overview
As the Electrical Senior Authorised Person, you will be the lead electrical position on the project. You will be accountable for managing and implementing electrical safety rules across a portfolio of data centres, ensuring a safe system of work is always adhered to.
Senior Authorised Person — Responsibilities
As Senior Authorised Person, you will:
- Manage any live or potentially live systems under your control.
- Manage, audit, and enforce the principles and application of control of hazardous energies procedures, including operational control of lock out tag out systems.
- Identify electrical hazards and implement mitigation deemed necessary.
- Manage, monitor, and operate access control systems in conjunction with approving, cancelling, and closing Electrical Safety Permit Systems.
- Implement SOPs, jurisdictional requirements, client requirements, and project-specific ESSOWs through managing, auditing, and permitting.
- Complete required compliance training and ensure team members are competent prior to appointment.
- Plan and execute safe electrical energizations, isolations, and switching, including approval of requests and drafting/approval of switching plans for HV/MV and LV systems.
- Escalate any safety breaches or non-compliance issues to the Person in Charge of the Electrical Installation and Senior Engineer.
- Ensure periodic inspection and auditing is completed as required.
- Review and approve electrical safety-related risk assessments and method statements.
- Assist in electrical incident investigations and ensure immediate notification of Accidents, Incidents, or Dangerous Occurrences.
Senior Authorised Person — Ideal Candidate
Essential:
- Be conversant with arc flash risk, hazard identification and mitigation measures, including electrical safety PPE.
- Manage, audit, employ and enforce adherence to an Electrical Safety Permit System including access control.
- Be a qualified electrician awarded the National Craft Certificate as part of the national Framework of Qualifications or equivalent in the jurisdiction and verified by Naric.
- Have successfully obtained a suitable electrical award, equivalent to Level 6 or higher on the National Framework of Qualifications.
- Complete jurisdictional training such as a recognised course in Verification, Testing and Certification and a recognised switching course at HV/MV and LV in previous two years.
- Be conversant with jurisdictional regulations and ensure compliance.
- Be competent to perform pre and post connection electrical testing, perform live dead live testing and assess results for compliance and safety.
- Be competent to perform electrical trouble shooting should an issue arise.
- Be conversant and familiar with equipment or complete familiarisation training including but not limited to main panels, ACB’s, MCCB’s, MCB’s, RCBO’s, VSD’s, MCC’s, busbar, sub distribution boards and final circuits.
- Understand, interpret and work from various forms of project information such as SLD's, wiring diagrams, schematics, punch list procedures, vendor manuals, etc.
- Review and manage of commissioning process’ from Level 2B to Level 5 including tagging process’ prior to energisation and activities to achieve successful IST.
- Authorise Energisation and Isolation requests.
- Demonstrated history of delivering HV/MV Infrastructure projects, DC / DNO / IDNO / Power Generation if nomination is at HV or MV levels.
- Experience managing work and safety precautions across control boundaries.
- Experience performing / supervising advance cable works including phasing, testing, identifying.
- Experience in testing and verification of HV/ MV and LV systems.
- A trade background and 10 - 15 years previous experience managing large installation projects and sub-contractors.
- Completed high voltage authorised person training course in last 2 years
- Completed low voltage authorised person training course in last 2 years
- Proven record of supervising and managing large installation projects
- In depth knowledge of Health, Safety and Quality compliance
- Experienced in design and build
- Excellent technical knowledge of Electrical systems
- Excellent IT skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work well within strict deadlines
- Ability to drive a large-scale project
- Be fully conversant with the National Rules for Electrical Installations for the jurisdiction
Desirable:
- Knowledge of Mechanical systems
- Coordination, communication and planning skills.
- Managing team performing high risk activities and ensuring compliance.
- Decision Making.
- Individual Leadership/Influencing.
- Information Monitoring and sharing.
- Initiating Action and work alone.
- Maintaining performance under pressure.
- Manage and Improve Processes.
- Meeting Leadership.
- Following instruction both verbal and written.
- Any specific jurisdictional qualifications
Rewards & Package
Tier-1 contractor rates reflecting the specialist nature of this role. Full international assignment support including accommodation arrangements, flight allowances, and visa sponsorship as required.
Comprehensive benefits package: company healthcare plan, pension scheme with employer contributions, and access to extensive training and professional development programmes. Full package details confirmed at offer stage.
About the Company
Our client is a major EPC contractor specializing in data centres, life sciences facilities, and fire protection systems across Europe.
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