Installation Engineer - Major Projects
Role Overview
The Installation Engineer oversees elevator and escalator installation activities and handovers for major projects.
The role involves coordinating customers, project colleagues, KONE installation teams, and subcontractors across multiple locations.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Installation Engineer oversees elevator and escalator installation activities and handovers for major projects.
The role involves coordinating customers, project colleagues, KONE installation teams, and subcontractors across multiple locations.
Site execution and delivery
- Oversee safety, quality, productivity, corrective actions, site readiness, audits, and installation handovers.
- Plan site activities, resources, tools, storage, logistics, and material receipt; verify execution plans, costs, and S-plan milestones.
- Coordinate team handovers, scope, dates, target hours, and ongoing work flow through regular huddles.
- Track progress, costs, risks, schedule changes, documentation, timesheets, and quality feedback.
- Verify installation completion, manage final testing and outstanding items, and hand over equipment to maintenance.
- Manage variation sales and change orders, and ensure costs attributable to others are claimed and collected.
Customer and site coordination
- Act as the primary customer contact for site management and communicate proactively to support customer satisfaction.
- Coordinate site visits, customer deliverables, and resolution of non-conformities.
People and improvement
- Verify the competence and task readiness of installers, testers, and other contractors.
- Support operative safety, motivation, performance development, and identification of training needs.
- Maintain professional subcontractor relationships and ensure teams meet commitments.
- Apply and improve standard ways of working using LEAN principles, coaching, and improvement activities.
- Manage environmental aspects of installation, including waste and hazardous-material handling.
Role requirements
- Ability to manage multiple customer projects across different locations.
- Ensure installation personnel and contractors are trained, certified, competent, and capable for their tasks.
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