Senior Project Manager

VINCI Construction; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NUVIA UK is seeking a Senior Project Manager for Operational Readiness to guide the team in building and deploying an Operational Readiness programme for SMRs. You will coordinate workforce planning, training frameworks, asset strategies, and digital infrastructure while ensuring alignment with nuclear site licence conditions and governance standards.

The role requires strong governance, budgeting, and stakeholder engagement across engineering, operations, and commercial functions in a hybrid

Qualifications

• Experience in large-scale infrastructure projects within highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with regulatory approval processes (licensing, permits, safety).
• Ability to develop and validate operational capability requirements and technical specs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement comprehensive project plans (scope, schedule, budget, resources, risk).
• Lead regular reviews to align with evolving needs and stakeholder expectations.
• Maintain governance-ready documentation with transparency and compliance.
• Manage budgets and address risks; apply forecasting and contingency planning.
• Oversee change control to prevent scope creep and update stakeholders.
• Collaborate with commercial teams to manage suppliers and contracts.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Budget management

Risk management

Project planning

Leadership & people management

Data analytics / Power BI

Education

HNC/HND or degree in PM/Engineering/Science

APM PMQ or PMI certification

Tools

Primavera

Microsoft Project

SharePoint

Requirements management tools

Data analytics platforms

Job description

Position – Senior Project Manager – Operational Readiness

Location – Warrington (once a month)

Reference – TS121

Travel – Hybrid

Arrangement – Staffed/contract

NUVIA UK's Technical Services & Consulting department is fast growing with hybrid opportunities available up and down the country. We're striving to create a multidisciplinary team to offer our clients the best range of talent.

BPSS clearance will be required at basic level. Prior clearance will not be transferrable.

Responsible for Project Managing the team, to build the Operational Readiness programme to support the deployment of a SMR's.

This role involves providing senior project management skillset to support the team in developing end-to-to-end operational readiness, including workforce planning, training frameworks, asset management strategies, digital infrastructure, and documentation control to ensure alignment with nuclear site licence conditions and regulatory expectations.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Develop and implement comprehensive project plans, defining scope, schedule, budget, resources, and risk management strategies.
• Facilitate regular review sessions to ensure project strategies remain aligned with evolving project needs and stakeholder expectations.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation to ensure transparency and compliance with governance requirements.
• Actively manage the budget throughout the relevant processes and escape and manage risks as they arise.
• Utilise forecasting techniques and scenario analysis to anticipate financial risks, enabling timely budget adjustments and mitigation strategies
• Ensure any changes in scope are communicated to stakeholders promptly and managed through a formal change control process to prevent scope creep.
• Develop risk mitigation plans and contingency strategies to address resource constraints and ensure continuous project progress.
• Prepare interactive reports using digital tools (e.g., Power BI) to provide stakeholders with real-time access to project status, budget health, and risk assessments.
• Collaborate with the wider SMR Project team (e.g. Commercial) to manage suppliers and contracts successfully, and to address any issues proactively to ensure that all SMR Project obligations are met.
• Ensure timely updates are provided to key internal stakeholders through periodic status meetings and progress reports.
• Develop resource management plans that anticipate future project needs, ensuring timely recruitment or reallocation of resources.
• Evaluating operational capability across all lifecycle phases: design, commissioning, operations and maintenance.
• Support and project manage vendor submissions to ensure operational feasibility, maintainability, and compliance with UK nuclear safety standards at whatclient needs.

Knowledge, Skills, & Experience:Essential;Experience working within large-scale infrastructure projects, within generation or similar highly regulated process industryExperience working within complex regulatory and assurance environments, ideally in highly regulated industries such as nuclear, oil and gas, process engineering or rail. Knowledge of safety, licensing, permitting, compliance or regulatory approval processes would be advantageous.Working knowledge of industry standards, operating experience programmes and good practices used within high-hazard or highly regulated sectors. Familiarity with guidance and standards published by organisations such as WANO, IAEA, INPO, EPRI, HSE, ISO or equivalent industry bodies would be beneficial.Experience developing and validating operational capability requirements, technical specifications or business requirements, within a regulated environment.Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence across technical, operational, engineering and project delivery disciplines.Experience using enterprise systems and project delivery tools, such as Primavera , Microsoft Project, SharePoint, requirements management tools, document management systems or data analytics platforms.Working knowledge of project planning and scheduling principles, including development, review and assurance techniquesDesirable;Experience working within multidisciplinary teams across infrastructure projectsExperience of energy generation, upstream or downstream processing, or other complex industrial facilities, providing an understanding of engineering, operational and technical delivery challengesExperience of building requirements, and in turn generating P6 schedules

Qualifications:Essential;HNC/HND, Degree or equivalent qualification in Project Management, Engineering, Science, or a related technical discipline.Professional Project management qualification e.g. APM PMQ or PMI equivalent.Desirable;Incorporated (IEng), Chartered (CEng), Chartered Project Professional (ChPP), or equivalent professional registration through a recognised professional body.