Head of Temporary Works & DI

Job Title: Head of Temporary Works & DI

Reporting to: Design & Engineering Director

Business Unit: Omexom Design Region

Purpose of the Position:

The Head of Temporary Works and DI is responsible for the overall management, coordination, and control of all temporary works activities across assigned projects. This includes fulfilling the statutory and procedural responsibilities of the Designated Individual (DI) in accordance with most recent version of BS 5975, providing competent oversight to ensure that temporary works are designed, installed, maintained, and removed safely and effectively.

The Head of Temporary Works acts as the central point of authority for temporary works, ensuring robust governance, technical assurance, compliance with standards, and alignment with project delivery objectives.

• Act as the company’s appointed Designated Individual, responsible for establishing, maintaining, and enforcing the organisation’s temporary works procedures.
• Ensure the Temporary Works Control Procedure is up to date, compliant with BS 5975, and effectively implemented across all projects.
• Appoint competent Temporary Works Coordinators (TWCs) and Temporary Works Supervisors (TWSs) and ensure they understand their responsibilities and duties and are assessed as competent.
• Provide governance and oversight to confirm that temporary works risks are identified, controlled, and escalated appropriately.
• Lead or contribute to internal audits of temporary works compliance.
• Maintain appropriate records of competence, appointments, training, and procedural compliance.

• Manage and coordinate all temporary works processes throughout design, installation, inspection, use, and dismantling.
• Facilitate the establishment and growth of a team to accomplish these aims and those outlined below.
• Review, approve, and coordinate temporary works designs and design briefs with engineers, designers, subcontractors, and temporary works design houses.
• Ensure that design checks (Category 0, 1, 2, and
  3) are correctly applied and independently verified where required.
• Ensure that all projects maintain the project Temporary Works Register and ensure all permits and approvals are correctly issued prior to loading, stressing, commissioning, or use. Ensuring projects are audited to confirm continued compliance with TW control standard.
• Undertake regular site inspections of temporary works installations and ensure continued high quality TW installations are in use where adopted, monitor compliance using TW audits and in person inspections.
• Ensure that changes, non-conformances, or unexpected conditions are managed through the correct engineering and approvals pathway and adequate change control can be captured through the TW delivery process.

• Provide technical guidance and advice to project teams on temporary works solutions, construction sequencing, and risk mitigation.
• Support the development of innovative or complex temporary works methodologies where required.
• Interpret drawings, specifications, codes of practice, and design standards to ensure appropriate implementation.
• Engage proactively with design teams to eliminate or reduce temporary works requirements where feasible. Working to the principles of prevention removing risk at the design stage.

• Promote a strong safety culture, ensuring safe systems of work for all temporary works activities.
• Ensure compliance with CDM 2015 regulations, BS 5975, company procedures, and any project-specific requirements.
• Identify hazards and ensure risks are mitigated through engineering controls and safe working systems.
• Support incident investigations (if involving temporary works) and lead improvement actions.
• Ensure all TW suppliers are competency checked and suitable to work with and a register is maintained.
• Ensure all TW designers are competency checked and suitable to work with and a register is maintained.

• Act as the central interface between site teams, designers, subcontractors, temporary works suppliers, and project leadership.
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