Senior Construction Manager

TN United Kingdom; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Senior Construction Manager at Hinkley Point C, where you will oversee the delivery of a major nuclear project. This role involves ensuring safety, managing construction operations, and leading a skilled team in a highly regulated environment. You will play a key part in a prestigious project, contributing to a safe and secure world through innovative construction practices.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Qualifications

• Experience in a highly regulated industry, preferably Nuclear.
• Experience in major construction projects.

Responsibilities

• Ensure building delivery on time, budget, and quality.
• Manage day-to-day construction and site engineering aspects.
• Lead and motivate the construction team.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Health and Safety

Planning

Organisation

Education

Relevant engineering qualification

Relevant Professional Accreditation

IOSH or NEBOSH

Job description

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At Cavendish Nuclear we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Construction Manager at our Hinkley Point C site.

This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance work across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main Mechanical, Electrical, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (MEH), cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station's vast network of rooms.

The role
As a Senior Construction Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Being part of the MEH Alliance working on Hinkley Point C is a chance to be involved in a major project with national significance.

Day-to-day, you'll ensure that the building is delivered on time, budget and quality whilst promoting onsite health and safety including inspections to ensure safety rules are being implemented in support of a positive Nuclear Safety Culture.

• Provide and demonstrate a positive HSE leadership, building a strong and compliant HS&E culture throughout the whole construction life cycle of the Project
• Manage all the day-to-day aspects of construction and site engineering ensuring that safe systems of work are adhered to
• Manage the interfaces between the MEH partners and subcontractors to ensure building delivery
• Lead, manage and motivate the building construction team through implementation of best practice
• Ensure productivity reviews are being carried out and reports are available Review of engineering design deliverables, procedures & RAMs
• Ensure Management of Change for all Site activities are identified, justified and issued promptly via the Change Process
• Ensure the early implementation of Completions (ORBIT) with direct interfacing with Completions leads

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.

This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week, and is based on site at Hinkley Point C.

Essential experience of the Senior Construction Manager

• Experience of operating within a highly regulated industry, preferably Nuclear
• Ideally Mechanical but electrical and HVAC also considered
• Experienced in delivering and operating within major construction projects
• Demonstrable experience relating to stakeholder management, organisation, planning, installation, quality, health and safety
• Ability to build strong relationships with employees and contractors
• Previous experience of Joint Venture Partnerships

Qualifications for the Senior Construction Manager

• Relevant engineering qualification or equivalent working experience
• Relevant Professional Accreditation (e.g. Project Management, Construction, Engineering) and/or equivalent working experience
• IOSH or NEBOSH

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK.

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive ten days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one workingweek of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we're innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group - from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.