Site Delivery Lead

JR United Kingdom; Bristol; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Nuclear Energy sector seeks a Senior Project Manager to oversee the delivery of complex projects. The role involves leading teams, managing budgets, and ensuring projects adhere to safety and regulatory standards. Ideal candidates will demonstrate strong project management skills and experience in similar regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Proven success in delivering projects in complex, regulated environments, preferably Nuclear Energy.
• Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and organizational skills.
• Experience managing projects from concept to handover.

Responsibilities

• Define work scope and interfaces within contracts or work packages.
• Secure resources and maintain stakeholder communication.
• Drive contract delivery safely, on time, and within budget.

Skills

Project Management

Financial Management

Change Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication

Numerical Skills

Analytical Skills

Education

Degree in Engineering, Construction, or related field

Chartered status

Tools

Risk Management Tools

Scheduling Software

Job description

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Do you have a proven track record of delivering projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment whilst ensuring high levels of safety, security, and environmental responsibility, ideally within the Nuclear Energy sector or similar regulated environment?

Are you able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management, and facilitation?

Would you like to play a key role in achieving the UK’s NetZero targets?

Please apply today if so…

The Opportunity

In both client-facing and internal roles, we are delivering major programme and project management capabilities throughout the project lifecycle. We aim to deliver safe, high-quality, and timely solutions through innovative thinking and collaboration.

Reporting to the Site Delivery Lead, you will support the overall direction and leadership of activities related to the full lifecycle delivery of the Temporary Construction Area sub-programme. You will lead/manage a team of Senior Project Managers and Managers, ensuring the delivery of Earthworks, Enabling works (including UXO, ecology, archaeology), Civils, Networks, and Buildings. The role involves managing a matrix team including the nuclear new build supply chain, quality team, and suppliers.

This role will assist the Site Delivery Lead in developing strategies to deliver scope within cost, schedule, and quality parameters. You will also oversee operational delivery of engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning activities in line with the overall project schedule.

Key responsibilities will be:

• Defining work scope and interfaces within contracts or work packages
• Securing resources in collaboration with the Site Delivery Lead, maintaining SQEP, and addressing personnel issues
• Providing strategic direction for effective execution aligned with the Programme Execution Plan (PEP)
• Maintaining stakeholder communication and executing project strategies
• Driving contract or package activity delivery safely, on time, within budget, and to technical standards
• Monitoring progress, tracking milestones, and reporting to the leadership team
• Identifying risks, resolving issues, and updating project plans and budgets
• Maintaining scope schedule consistency and escalating discrepancies
• Ensuring delivery of the List of Deliverables (LOD)
• Applying Continuous Improvement principles and capturing lessons learned
• Collaborating with other programmes for best practice sharing
• Fulfilling contractual requirements and maintaining effective relationships

Qualifications

• Proven success in delivering projects in complex, regulated environments, preferably Nuclear Energy
• Stakeholder engagement experience
• Strong management skills including project, financial, change management, and facilitation
• Proficiency with estimating, scheduling, programming, and risk tools
• Experience managing contractors and advisors on large projects, familiar with NEC and FIDIC contracts
• Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and organizational skills
• Strong numerical and analytical skills
• Detailed understanding of EPR design and experience
• Degree and chartered status in engineering, construction, or related field
• Knowledge of CDM Regulations
• Experience with Project Management methodologies such as APM and Prince2
• Experience managing projects from concept to handover

Millbank Holdings Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and respects diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons who are eligible to live and work in the UK. We are also proud members of the ‘Disability Confident Scheme’. Millbank operates as an Employment Agency and Business.