Work Pack Engineer Lead

EDF Energy Limited; Stogursey; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

EDF Energy Limited is seeking an experienced Lead Work Pack Engineer to drive the delivery strategy across major projects in the UK. You will lead a team of Work Pack Engineers, coordinate planning, controls and quality, and ensure readiness against construction and fabrication schedules.

You'll manage interfaces with Engineering, Planning, Construction and Quality, report progress to senior leadership, and champion best practices, safety and continuous improvement across the work pack function.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading work pack, workface planning, construction readiness, project engineering or fabrication support functions within a highly regulated environment.
• Proven experience leading technical or project support teams.
• Strong understanding of work pack preparation, document control and workface planning principles.
• Experience managing interfaces between Engineering, Planning, Construction and Quality functions.
• Understanding of quality requirements, configuration management and technical documentation control.
• Experience delivering against programme milestones and performance targets.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and develop a team of Work Pack Engineers and Assistant Work Pack Engineers.
• Allocate resources across project priorities to ensure work pack production aligns with construction and fabrication requirements.
• Conduct performance reviews, development planning and mentoring activities.
• Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and high-quality delivery.
• Establish, monitor and report work pack performance metrics including readiness, productivity, quality and schedule compliance.
• Own the overall work pack delivery strategy across assigned project scopes.
• Ensure work packs are available in accordance with construction and fabrication schedules.
• Monitor work pack readiness metrics and identify emerging risks to delivery.
• Drive the removal of constraints preventing work pack completion and issues.
• Interface with Project Controls and Planning teams to align work pack delivery with project milestones.
• Lead work pack lookahead reviews and prioritisation meetings.
• Ensure critical path activities are supported through timely work pack production.
• Provide work pack status reporting to Project and Construction leadership
• Develop resource forecasts and recruitment requirements to ensure work pack capability aligns with future project demand.
• Accountable for the timely production, quality and readiness of all work packs within assigned project scope.
• Accountable for the performance, development and capability of the Work Pack Engineering team.
• Accountable for ensuring work pack processes support safe, compliant and efficient project delivery.
• Technical Governance
• Ensure all work packs meet project quality requirements and applicable technical standards.
• Review and approve work pack methodologies and standards.
• Oversee the management of design changes, document revisions and configuration control.
• Support resolution of technical queries affecting work pack readiness.
• Stakeholder Management
• Act as the primary interface between Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing, Quality, Planning and Project Management regarding work pack activities.
• Support engagement with NNB representatives and client stakeholders where required.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities to achieve project delivery objectives.
• Escalate risks and constraints to the Site Project Manager with recommended mitigation strategies.
• Work closely with Construction Managers and Delivery Managers to ensure work packs support safe and efficient execution on site and within fabrication facilities.
• Quality & Nuclear Compliance
• Promote Nuclear Safety Culture principles throughout the work pack function.
• Ensure compliance with HPC quality requirements, Lifetime Quality Records and configuration management processes.
• Support quality audits, surveillance activities and management reviews.
• Champion Right First Time principles and lessons learned initiatives.
• Continuous Improvement
• Identify opportunities to improve work pack processes, systems and efficiency.
• Develop standardisation and best practice across the work pack team.
• Support implementation of digital tools and workface planning improvements.
• Monitor KPIs and drive performance improvements across the function.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Delivery planning

Quality & compliance

Problem solving

Communication

Education

HNC/HND or Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Construction/Project Management

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Main Responsibilities

Leadership & Management

Lead, manage and develop a team of Work Pack Engineers and Assistant Work Pack Engineers.
Allocate resources across project priorities to ensure work pack production aligns with construction and fabrication requirements.
Conduct performance reviews, development planning and mentoring activities.
Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and high-quality delivery.
Establish, monitor and report work pack performance metrics including readiness, productivity, quality and schedule compliance.

Work Face Readiness

Own the overall work pack delivery strategy across assigned project scopes.
Ensure work packs are available in accordance with construction and fabrication schedules.
Monitor work pack readiness metrics and identify emerging risks to delivery.
Drive the removal of constraints preventing work pack completion and issues.

Planning & Delivery

Interface with Project Controls and Planning teams to align work pack delivery with project milestones.
Lead work pack lookahead reviews and prioritisation meetings.
Ensure critical path activities are supported through timely work pack production.
Provide work pack status reporting to Project and Construction leadership
Develop resource forecasts and recruitment requirements to ensure work pack capability aligns with future project demand.

Functional Accountability

Accountable for the timely production, quality and readiness of all work packs within assigned project scope.
Accountable for the performance, development and capability of the Work Pack Engineering team.
Accountable for ensuring work pack processes support safe, compliant and efficient project delivery.
Technical Governance
Ensure all work packs meet project quality requirements and applicable technical standards.
Review and approve work pack methodologies and standards.
Oversee the management of design changes, document revisions and configuration control.
Support resolution of technical queries affecting work pack readiness.

Stakeholder Management

Act as the primary interface between Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing, Quality, Planning and Project Management regarding work pack activities.
Support engagement with NNB representatives and client stakeholders where required.
Coordinate cross-functional activities to achieve project delivery objectives.
Escalate risks and constraints to the Site Project Manager with recommended mitigation strategies.
Work closely with Construction Managers and Delivery Managers to ensure work packs support safe and efficient execution on site and within fabrication facilities.

Quality & Nuclear Compliance

Promote Nuclear Safety Culture principles throughout the work pack function.
Ensure compliance with HPC quality requirements, Lifetime Quality Records and configuration management processes.
Support quality audits, surveillance activities and management reviews.
Champion Right First Time principles and lessons learned initiatives.
Continuous Improvement
Identify opportunities to improve work pack processes, systems and efficiency.
Develop standardisation and best practice across the work pack team.
Support implementation of digital tools and workface planning improvements.
Monitor KPIs and drive performance improvements across the function.

Key Behaviours

Strong leadership and team development capability.
Proactive and delivery focused.
Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills.
Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
Effective communicator across all organisational levels.
Confident managing multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
Promotes collaboration and positive working relationships.
Demonstrates commitment to safety, integrity and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

Significant experience leading work pack, workface planning, construction readiness, project engineering or fabrication support functions within a highly regulated environment.
Proven experience leading technical or project support teams.
Strong understanding of work pack preparation, document control and workface planning principles.
Experience managing interfaces between Engineering, Planning, Construction and Quality functions.
Strong understanding of quality requirements, configuration management and technical documentation control.
Experience delivering against programme milestones and performance targets.
Understanding of project controls, productivity measurement, earned value principles and cost impacts associated with workface readines
Relevant supervisory or leadership experience.
Ability to obtain and maintain HPC site access requirements.
HNC/HND or Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or related discipline.
CCNSG Safety Passport.

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.