Senior Electrical Authorized Person, Groningen, The Netherlands

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Mercury is the European leader in construction solutions. We build and manage complex engineering and construction projects for the world’s leading corporations. Our solutions help deliver technologies and life-changing advancements that connect people, communities, and businesses, giving them the power to achieve incredible things. Our people have the courage to be innovative. Their determination and sharp focus enable us to deliver with certainty, time and time again.

We deliver our clients’ visions through leading-edge construction solutions across multiple sectors, including Enterprise Data Centres, Advanced Technology & Life Sciences, Hyperscale Data Centres, and Fire Protection.

At Mercury, it is our duty to encourage and back our people to realize their vision of themselves. We place them at the heart of what we do, providing challenging opportunities to develop within a great team in a supportive environment that allows them to reach their full potential.

Scope Of The Role

The Electrical Senior Authorized Person is the lead electrical position within the project. They are accountable for managing and implementing Mercury’s electrical safety rules across a portfolio of data centers, ensuring that a safe system of work is always adhered to.

Key Responsibilities Of The Role

Safety

• Responsible for any live or potentially live systems under their control.
• Manage, audit, and enforce the principles and application of control of hazardous energies procedures, including operational control of lock-out tag-out system.
• Identify electrical hazards and implement necessary mitigation measures.
• Be conversant with arc flash risk, hazard identification, and mitigation measures, including electrical safety PPE. Monitor the condition of PPE and safety equipment, advising the project Senior Authorized Person of calibration requirements or replacement safety equipment as needed.
• Manage, audit, employ, and enforce adherence to an Electrical Safety Permit System, including access control.
• Implement Mercury SOPs, jurisdictional requirements, and client requirements, ensuring they are employed on the project through managing, auditing, and permitting.
• Complete any required training for compliance in jurisdiction and with Mercury ESSOW. Ensure team members are competent prior to appointment, including training requirements for their roles.
• Plan and execute safe electrical energizations, isolations, and switching, including approval of requests and drafting and approval of switching plans.
• Escalate any safety breaches or non-compliance issues to the Person in Charge of the Electrical Installation and Senior Engineer prior to hazard causing risk.
• Ensure periodic inspection and auditing is completed as required by Mercury’s SOP, client requirements, and jurisdictional requirements.
• Review and approve electrical safety-related risk assessments and method statements.
• Assist in electrical incident investigations should an incident occur, ensuring that all accidents, incidents, or dangerous occurrences associated with work on Electrical Distribution Systems are immediately notified to the Mercury Designated Person.
• The Senior Authorized Person must be full-time onsite and nominate a deputy of equal competencies to act on limited occasions in their absence.

Technical

• Be a qualified electrician awarded the National Craft Certificate as part of the National Framework of Qualifications or equivalent in the jurisdiction, verified by Naric.
• Complete jurisdictional training such as a recognized course in Verification, Testing, and Certification and a recognized switching course at HV/MV and LV in the previous two years.
• Be competent to perform pre and post-connection electrical testing, live-dead-live testing, and assess results for compliance and safety.
• Monitor relevant subcontractors/vendors ensuring works are completed within legislation and Mercury SOPs, including testing procedures and results.
• Understand, interpret and work from various forms of project information such as SLD's, wiring diagrams, schematics, and vendor manuals, ensuring that affected parties are familiar and compliant.
• Review and manage commissioning processes from Level 2B to Level 5, including tagging processes prior to energization.

Communication/Reporting

• Establish and maintain positive and effective working relationships with project team, peer workers, and vendors.
• Manage the electrical safety communication processes on the project through warning signage, energization notices, toolbox talks, and permitting.
• Share system status updates with the project team and project Cx Manager in a timely and concise fashion.
• Attend project meetings sharing updates and limitations for future planned works.

Competencies

• Coordination, communication, and planning skills.
• Managing a team performing high-risk activities and ensuring compliance.
• Decision-making and individual leadership.
• Information monitoring and sharing.
• Ability to work well under pressure.

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrated history of delivering HV/MV Infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing work and safety precautions across control boundaries.
• Proven record of supervising and managing large installation projects.
• Excellent technical knowledge of Electrical systems.
• Qualified electrician awarded the National Craft Certificate or equivalent for the region.

Mercury is an equal opportunities employer.

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