Tunnel Preconstruction Manager

EDF Energy Limited; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

EDF Energy Limited seeks a Tunnel Preconstruction Manager for Sizewell C to lead tunnelling preconstruction, strategy development and constructability reviews. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, oversee access, logistics and interfaces, and shape the TOC-driven execution plan for the tunnelling scope.

Evidence of substantial experience in major infrastructure projects and a strong safety-first leadership approach is essential.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in major infrastructure and tunnelling projects.
• Proven ability to lead pre-construction planning and constructability reviews.
• Experience delivering projects across full lifecycle in regulated environments.
• Strong safety leadership and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop construction methodologies optimizing safety, schedule certainty and productivity.
• Lead method-led strategies for tunnelling works and onshore/offshore connections.
• Conduct constructability reviews to manage interfaces and risks.
• Define space, access, facilities, utilities, lifting, logistics and muck-away requirements.

Skills

Safety leadership

Stakeholder management

Construction planning

Pre-construction experience

Team leadership

Technical reviews

Interdisciplinary coordination

UK construction knowledge

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Tunnel Preconstruction Manager (Sizewell C)
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Sizewell C

Job Responsibilities

• Develop construction methodologies that optimise safety, programme certainty and productivity while accommodating project constraints as well as governing technical, environmental and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the development of method-led execution strategies for (i) tunnelling works including launch audit formation, segmental lining and SCL works alongside (ii) constructing the onshore tunnel launch shafts (3No) and offshore tunnel-shaft- connections (6No).
• Lead constructability reviews to ensure temporary and permanent works interfaces are identified and managed effectively to mitigate risks / accommodate project constraints.
• Define requirements for working space, access routes, temporary facilities, utilities, lifting operations, plant deployment, logistics and muck-away arrangements.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in major infrastructure, tunnelling construction projects,
  including experience in pre-construction planning, construction method development and constructability reviews.
• Proven experience delivering projects across the full lifecycle in complex, regulated environment.
• A collaborative leader who demonstrates safety-leadership, clarity, respect, positivity, humility and solidarity in how they work.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to lead technical reviews, drive collaboration and influence decisions.
• Ability to integrate technical, programme and commercial considerations into clear strategies.
• Knowledge of UK construction and health & safety legislation.
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary workstreams relating to scope pre-construction activities, exercising stakeholder and interface management with relevant parties.
• Engage with the logistics and tunnelling surface works team (responsible for establishing the tunnel launch compound) to coordinate the construction-stage requirements of the tunnelling works.
• Develop technical inputs and construction assumptions that underpin scope definition, pricing and risk allowances.
• Manage specialist consultants and contractors undertaking early contractor involvement (ECI) activities.
• Embed constructability into the detailed design process, engaging with counterparts in the design team to contribute to design decisions and highlight key considerations for construction-stage requirements.
• Engage the supply chain and support specialist ECI engagement, as required.
• Lead preparation of the technical submission supporting approval of the Target Outturn Cost (TOC) for the tunnelling scope. This will involve leading the development of key deliverables including a project execution plan and delivery strategies, documenting key underpinning assumptions.
• Support the timely procurement of tunnelling items, defining specification / operating requirements, alongside supporting the tender and evaluation process.
• Support and mentor engineers and package managers engaged in the tunnelling scope

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.