Plans & Preparations Lead; Thermal Region

Role - Thermal Projects - Plans & Preparation Lead

Altrad is looking for an experienced Mechanical Engineering Construction professional to support the preparation, planning and successful delivery of outage and project activities across our Thermal Projects portfolio.

This is a practical, delivery-focused role working across bid support, project preparation, mobilization and execution support activities within thermal generation and heavy industrial environments.

Working closely with Operational, Commercial and Estimating teams, the successful candidate will help shape execution strategies, develop practical work scopes and support safe, efficient project delivery.

This role would suit someone with a strong background in mechanical project delivery, outages or shutdowns who understands how engineering construction projects are delivered on site and can translate that experience into effective planning and preparation.

• Support tendering and estimating teams with practical delivery and execution input
• Develop job steps, work packs and execution methodologies for outage and project activities
• Support planning and mobilisation activities following project award
• Provide technical and operational support to live projects where required
• Review lessons learned and feed improvements into future bids and delivery models
• Help ensure scopes, labour assumptions and execution plans are realistic and achievable
• Work closely with operational teams, planners, estimators and commercial functions across the business
• Support improvements in planning quality, execution efficiency and delivery consistency
• Assist with identifying delivery risks, sequencing challenges and resource requirements

• Strong Mechanical Engineering Construction background
• Experience with in thermal power, energy or heavy industrial environments
• Good understanding of outage planning and project execution
• Experience supporting mechanical maintenance, shutdowns or capital project activities
• Ability to develop practical work scopes, job steps and execution plans
• Strong understanding of site delivery challenges, sequencing and labour coordination
• Good communication and stakeholder coordination skills
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
• Working knowledge of health, safety and quality requirements within engineering construction environments

• Experience supporting tendering or estimating activities
• Familiarity with planning systems, workpack development or digital delivery tools
• Experience across multi-disciplinary outage environments
• Supervisory, project engineering or outage management background
• Experience working within NEC, FIDIC or similar engineering construction project environments

• UK travel to operational sites and project locations will be required
• Hybrid/flexible working approach dependent on project requirements
• Opportunity to support major outage and project activities across a growing Thermal Projects portfolio