Special Projects Manager (Sizewell C)

EDF Energy Limited; Sizewell; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Wilson James is seeking a Special Projects Manager to lead enabling works and infrastructure delivery for Sizewell C. You will manage projects from briefing through handover, coordinating designers, contractors and stakeholders across the project.

The role requires strong project-management experience in nuclear or infrastructure environments, excellent communication, and the ability to operate safely within live sites while controlling scope, budget and schedule.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication at working and management levels.
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office and project-planning or reporting tools.
• CITB HS&E Managers and Professionals certificate (MAPS), or project-accepted equivalent.
• Ability to satisfy all Sizewell C security, vetting and site access requirements.
• Relevant project-management, construction, engineering or logistics qualification, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned projects from initial brief through planning, delivery, testing, handover and close-out.
• Define scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, interfaces and project plans with relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain programmes, milestones, risk and issue registers, actions, dependencies and recovery plans.
• Coordinate surveys, design development, technical queries and required reviews or approvals.
• Prepare clear scopes and support procurement, quotation and tendering activity with Commercial and Procurement.
• Coordinate contractor mobilisation, access, RAMS, logistics and work sequencing.
• Monitor contractor safety, quality, progress and expedite shortfalls promptly.
• Control budgets, commitments and change and provide accurate forecast and commercial information.
• Coordinate interfaces with Planning, Operations, Digital, Assurance, People and Tier 2 partners.
• Plan testing, commissioning, readiness and operational handover, closing documentation and outstanding actions.
• Provide concise progress reporting, identifying decisions, risks, cost or schedule impacts and lessons learned.

Skills

Communication skills

Project management

IT skills

Education

Degree in a relevant discipline

APM/PRINCE2/ PMI certification

Other project-management qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project planning tools

Job description

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Special Projects Manager (Sizewell C)
Wilson James
Sizewell C

Job Responsibilities

• Manage assigned projects from initial brief through planning, delivery, testing, handover and close-out.
• Define scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, interfaces and project plans with relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain programmes, milestones, risk and issue registers, actions, dependencies and recovery plans.
• Coordinate surveys, design development, technical queries and required reviews or approvals.
• Prepare clear scopes and support procurement, quotation and tendering activity with Commercial and Procurement.
• Coordinate contractor mobilisation, access, permits, RAMS, logistics and work sequencing.
• Monitor contractor safety, quality, progress and performance and expedite shortfalls promptly.
• Control budgets, commitments and change and provide accurate forecast and commercial information.
• Coordinate interfaces with Planning, Operations, Digital, Assurance, People and Tier 2 partners.
• Plan testing, commissioning, readiness and operational handover, closing documentation and outstanding actions.
• Provide concise progress reporting, identifying decisions, risks, cost or schedule impacts and lessons learned.

Other duties and responsibilities

• Work in accordance with:
  • Wilson James policies, site procedures and training provided
  • Wilson James core values:
    We are fair and honest in all our activities;
    We treat each other with dignity and respect;
    We are responsible for all our actions and accountable for their consequences;
    We have an environment that enables and supports effective communication;
    We will continuously develop safe systems of work to ensure no one is placed at risk in our workplaces.
  • Customer policies
• Carry out any other reasonable request as required by your Line Manager or the Customer

Qualifications

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills at working and management levels.
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office and project-planning or reporting tools.
• CITB HS&E Managers and Professionals certificate (MAPS), or project-accepted equivalent.
• Ability to satisfy all Sizewell C security, vetting and site access requirements.
• Relevant project-management, construction, engineering or logistics qualification, or equivalent experience.

Desirable

• A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline.
• APM, PRINCE2, PMI or another recognised project-management qualification.
• A working knowledge of:
  • Major infrastructure, construction or nuclear programme environments
  • CDM, contractor management and permit-to-work interfaces
  • NEC contract environments, commercial governance and change control
  • Logistics, warehouse, commissioning and operational-readiness environments

Experience

• Strong project-management experience delivering enabling works, infrastructure or operational-improvement projects.
• Demonstrable experience managing projects from definition through delivery, handover and close-out.
• Ability to maintain project programmes, risks, issues, dependencies and clear progress reporting.
• Experience coordinating designers, contractors, suppliers and operational stakeholders.
• Strong contractor-management capability covering mobilisation, performance, safety and quality.
• Commercial awareness with experience controlling scope, budget, change and supplier commitments.
• Ability to deliver safely within live operational environments without disrupting business-as-usual activity.
• Strong stakeholder-management, communication, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Working knowledge of NEC contracts, CDM requirements or major-project governance is desirable.
• Confident use of Microsoft Office and project-planning and reporting tools.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.