Building Construction Manager - Hinkley Point C - Bridgwater

BALFOUR BEATTY; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking a Building Construction Manager for the Hinkley Point Project, the first new nuclear power station in the UK in over 20 years. You will be crucial in delivering the project plan, ensuring safety compliance, and leading a team in this significant venture contributing to the UK's low-carbon future.

Benefits

Smart working with up to 40% remote work

25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)

Family friendly policies including paid maternity/paternity leave

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Experience with nuclear safety requirements.
• Ability to coordinate multiple disciplines.
• Can obtain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Deliver project plan coordinating with client and contractors.
• Promote safety culture and conduct site inspections.
• Manage and report on construction performance against targets.

Skills

Health and safety management

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Education

Degree/HNC or relevant experience (Mechanical, Electrical and HVAC)

Job description

About the role

Become part of the first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years! Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as an Building Construction Manager on the Hinkley Point Project and develop with this amazing project.

About Hinkley Point C

The first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years; Hinkley Point C in Somerset will provide low-carbon electricity for around 6 million homes, create thousands of jobs and bring lasting benefits to the UK economy.

Marking a significant milestone in the revitalisation of our nuclear power industry, Hinkley Point C will make a major contribution to the UKs move to reduce carbon emissions. The electricity generated by its two EPR reactors will offset 9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year.

What you'll be doing

• You will play a key role to deliver the project plan and coordination across various disciplines, including the client and other (external) Tier 1 contractors.


• Promote and maintain health and safety, including site inspections to ensure
  safety rules are being implemented in support of a positive Nuclear Safety
  Culture.


• Own the delivery of the 16 week lookahead (provided by the Building Leads)
  and drive the performance of the construction team to ensure targets are met,
  issues are identified and resolved.


• Stakeholder management and ensuring assumptions, give/gets are
  communicated and managed to promote an efficient installation programme.


• Ensure compliance with all nuclear safety and site licence requirements.


• Report on site orderliness, ensuring the areas work productively in a lean
  manner.


• Managing the discipline of the workforce to the MEH standards


• Ensuring compliance to the ECSA Working Agreement for example, Bell to Bell working with a presence at the clocking stations each end of the working day.


• Ensuring daily returns are completed and issues are highlighted


• Ensure weekly & monthly reports are compiled and produced in a timely manner
  for upward review.


• Ensure by coordination with the superintendents there is
  sufficient resource to meet construction requirements are available in line with
  the delivery schedule.

Who we're looking for

• Degree/HNC or relevant experience (Mechanical, Electrical and HVAC)


• Able to obtain a security clearance


• CCNSG Safety Passport

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.