Clerk of Works (Mechanical)
Independent inspection and quality surveillance of mechanical installations. Witnessing tests, checking the work against the specification, and recording it properly so it stands up later.
Clerk of Works (Mechanical)
Mechanical assurance for sites that can't get it wrong.
Peter Barratt Ltd provides Clerk of Works (Mechanical), Mechanical Building Services and Works and Project Management to clients delivering defence, nuclear and major infrastructure projects.
38+years in mechanical engineering
34years in the Royal Engineers: 25 Regular, 9 Reserve
9years on Hinkley Point C
20+years Security Cleared (SC), continuously
What The Company Does
Services
Mechanical Building Services and HVAC
Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, pipework and plant. Reviewing designs, installation and commissioning, from someone who started on the spanners.
Works and Project Management
Planning, contractor management and delivery of works, at home and overseas, from single sites to multi-site programmes.
Secure and regulated sites
Security Cleared continuously for 20+ years, with experience across defence and nuclear sites. Used to the paperwork, the inductions and the rules that come with them.
Working With Us
A company, engaged as a company.
Contract and invoice
Work is agreed between your organisation and Peter Barratt Ltd, for a defined scope, and invoiced by the company.
The company's own kit
Inspection equipment, laptop, software and transport are provided by Peter Barratt Ltd.
Insured
Professional indemnity and public liability insurance held by the company. Certificates on request.
Track Record
Done it, not just talked about it.
Nine years
Hinkley Point C
Senior Project Manager (Mechanical) on the UK's first nuclear new build in a generation, working with EDF NNB, Mace, Costain and Exyte.
Before that, 25 years of infrastructure with the Royal Engineers, from the Falklands to Helmand and several other countries in between. More on that below.
- Mechanical Engineer38+ years in mechanical building services, HVAC and infrastructure
- HND Building Services (HVAC)After 22 months at the Royal School of Military Engineering
- PRINCE2 PractitionerProject management
- MCMIMember, Chartered Management Institute
- MInstREMember, Institution of Royal Engineers
- Security Cleared (SC)Continuously for 20+ years
Service History · Regular and Reserve
Once a SPR, always a SPR.
I left school in 1987 for a Heavy Diesels Fitter apprenticeship in the Royal Engineers, served 25 years in the Regular Army as a Sapper, then 9 more in the Reserve.
The early years were heavy plant, generators, turbines and compressors, kept running a long way from anywhere with whatever was to hand. Then 22 months at the Royal School of Military Engineering and an HND in Building Services took me from the spanners to running projects. I finished as a Works Services Manager in Brunei, with the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 (WO1).
Postings took me to the Falklands, Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Iraq, Afghanistan and Brunei. A few that stuck:
HelmandWorks Contracts Officer, Provincial Reconstruction Team. $70M of schools, health centres and roads, with the Foreign Office.
IraqCommander's Commendation, for supporting the Coalition Provisional Authority's reconstruction programme.
Brunei£5M a year of works across 2,000+ assets, with 32 staff.
CanadaC$7M of projects, including a new data centre, an Apache hangar and a runway fire station.
FalklandsMaintained a 60M-litre fuel depot and a 12km overland aviation fuel pipeline.
Cumbria floods, 2009A 36m bridge in within two weeks.
Contact
Got a project that needs a Clerk of Works (Mechanical)?
Email spud@peterbarratt.ltd with the site, the scope and the dates, and you'll get a straight answer on whether it's a fit.
Thanks for stopping by.
Whatever the site, the job is the same: make sure it's built right, tested right and written down right, so nobody has to dig it back up later.
REgards,
I won't rip, split, burst, blow-up, bend, buckle or twist.