Pre Ops - Manager

Westinghouse Electric Company LLC.; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the nuclear energy sector is seeking a Pre-Operations Manager. This role encompasses project planning, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring safety and quality standards are met. Candidates should possess experience in managing multi-discipline teams and demonstrate strong leadership skills in a regulated environment. Competitive benefits and a commitment to employee well-being are part of the offering.

Benefits

Competitive benefits

Opportunities for personal development

Qualifications

• Experience managing multi-discipline teams in a regulated environment.
• Experience in plant operations, maintenance or commissioning.
• Ability to lead and empower a growing team.

Responsibilities

• Monitor project timelines and take corrective actions to keep projects on schedule.
• Establish and enforce quality standards for project deliverables.
• Manage day-to-day liaison with stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication

Tools

Word

Visio

Excel

Adobe

Job description

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Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse’s mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

If this sounds like an environment you would thrive in, we have an exciting opportunity for a Pre-Operations Manager in United Kingdom.

The Pre-Operations Manager will the Westinghouse Pre-Operations (Pre-Ops) capability.

Your Day-to-Day:

Support business development through:

• Input to tenders by defining the Operability and Maintainability (O&M) scope, schedule, cost and arrangements required.

• Producing and managing a Pre-Ops Case Study library.

• Recruitment to support projects and future work demands.

Support specific project delivery through:

• Input of O&M requirements into Project Processes (Design, HAZOP, Risk, Contract, Schedule, and Estimate).

• Definition and implementation of the O&M arrangements required at project completion / active start (O&M Organisation, Training, Management System, Manufacturing / EIM&T Schedules, and Materials / Spares logistics).

• Confirm achievement of required O&M criteria for taking plant into active commissioning.

• The Pre-Ops Manager also provides the knowledge, leadership, management, and support required to ensure Pre-Ops work scope is executed to meet the Client’s company, legal, regulatory and project requirements.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

Project Planning

• Monitor project timelines and identify potential delays. Take corrective actions to keep the project on schedule.
• Monitor the Pre-Ops progress reporting any new milestone achievements or project delays to the customer.
• Deliver the Pre-Ops work scope to an agreed strategy and plan in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Ensure O&M requirements are adequately considered in Project Processes (Design, HAZOP, Risk, Contract, Schedule and Estimate).
• Line manager duties for supervision and performance of direct reports and team members (Control of work task/assignments – supervised, able, trained & competent to do assigned tasks).
• Address design challenges and conflicts that may arise during the project.
• Facilitate creative problem-solving within the team.

Health, Safety and Quality Assurance

• To ensure that all team members are aware of and understand relevant Legislation, Client and project-specific policies, procedures, and design issues.
• Establish and enforce quality standards for project deliverables.
• To promote and facilitate best practice for the sharing of LFE between the project and the Client.
• Ensuring a proactive and balanced approach to safety (nuclear, radiological, conventional & environmental) to ensure that safety is optimized.
• Carry out effective and proportionate risk management and assurance activities. Identify and assess potential risks that may impact the project using a risk and opportunities register. Prioritize risks based on their potential impact and likelihood.
• Implement proactive measures to reduce the likelihood and impact of identified risks. Continuously monitor and reassess risks throughout the project. Adjust mitigation strategies and plans as needed based on changing circumstances.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Managing day to day liaison with personnel/stakeholders to obtain any necessary permissions and minimize impact to the project.

Cost and Schedule

• Review Pre-Ops work progress and performance and taking appropriate corrective actions where necessary.
• Plan, balance and prioritize Pre-Ops resources to support successful project execution.

Who You Are:

Knowledge/Skills

Personal Qualities

• Ability to lead a growing team and demonstrate individual drive
• Ability to work across multiple projects at the same time
• Ability to foster an empowered team environment

Experience

• Managing multi discipline teams in a highly regulated environment
• Managing Client and Stakeholders in a complex project and/or operating environment
• Plant operations, plant maintenance / engineering or commissioning
• Interpreting technical and Safety Case information
• Use of IT packages Word, Visio, Excel, Adobe

Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry’s first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

• Safety and Quality
• Integrity and Trust
• Customer Focus and Innovation
• Speed and Passion to Win
• Teamwork and Accountability

Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being.