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Configuration Leads (Sizewell C)

Job Category:  Project Management / Controls
Contract Partner Company:  Venesky Brown
Employing Company:  Venesky Brown

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Configuration Leads (Sizewell C)
Venesky-Brown Recruitment
Sizewell C


Principal Accountabilities:


As a Configuration Lead, you'll dive into diverse areas, connecting with stakeholders to ensure project-wide awareness and implementation of Configuration Management arrangements. You'll tackle emerging risks head-on, supporting pragmatic solutions and simplifying complexities to drive optimal decisions. Collaborating with various teams, you'll shape the project's technical baseline and enhance decision-making and visibility. As a key part of the SZC's technical efforts, you'll play a pivotal role in driving project success. 
 

Responsibilities of this role will also include:  


•    Support execution of the Overarching Configuration Management Plan ensuring a balanced application of Configuration Management tailored to the programme-specific scope. Establishment and maintenance of scope-specific Configuration Management Plan(s) which supports integration with the overarching Configuration Management Plan. 
•    Define, implement and improve Configuration Management arrangements (e.g. standards, procedures, guidance, forms and tools) to ensure adequate and proportionate configuration control is established and maintained. Review and author relevant Configuration Management arrangements (e.g. procedures and guidance). Oversee self-assessments of arrangements and procedures. 
•    Define configuration items selection criteria, oversee identification and recording of Configuration Items and Product Configuration Information within a programme to ensure a proportionate and consistent approach is applied. 
•    Engage with programme stakeholders ensuring configuration baselines are established as an outcome of scheduled events (e.g. Gateway reviews, Replication Reports), configuration changes are identified and managed, configuration records are established and maintained, configuration status reports are produced, configuration audit strategies are agreed and configuration audits are planned and performed. 
•    Administer the change control procedure ensuring configuration changes are registered and recorded, they are confirmed as meeting CM quality criteria, applicable governance meetings are arranged, decisions recorded, and support Engineering/Programme Leads to expedite changes through the process to closure. 
•    Define and develop Configuration Status Reports to support management decision making and continuous improvement activities by providing data-backed reports summarising current and prior configurations, configuration changes, and the outcome of configuration review and audit activities. Oversee production of the Configuration Status Reports by the Configuration Engineer ensuring they are produced to meet programme timescales and quality expectations. 
•    Establish and provide CM training so programme participants understand their responsibilities within CM procedures, the information and records required, and the inter-relationships and dependencies between CM, design management, document control and information management activities. 
•    Participate in Engineering Data Management / Information Management activities to specify CM requirements for CM data and information management systems, and verify they are adequately delivered. Engage with Engineering Data and Tools function to ensure tools can be used for CM identification and Configuration Items are accurately recorded within tools. 
•    Build and manage stakeholder relationships including those within the Technical Directorate, delivery Programmes, and Suppliers. 
•    Act as a coach to wider programme participants in relation to CM topics, and mentor for CM Engineer(s). 
•    Work hand-in-hand with the Programmes engineering delivery teams to ensure the Project dataset is established, maintained and configuration controlled.


Qualifications & Experience:


Essential 


•    Demonstrable experience of how to perform configuration management on large, complex programmes (major infrastructure or similar). 

 
Desirable 


•    CM certification (CM2) and/or equivalent industry experience. 
•    Engineering degree or equivalent industry experience. 
•    Experience in large multi-disciplinary engineering projects. 
•    Prior experience working on HPC or other EPR projects.


Knowledge & Skills:


Essential 


•    Capable of coordinating cross cutting technical topics and applying configuration management procedures. 
•    Capable of defining CM related procedures pragmatically aligned with project needs. 
•    Ability to read, digest and implement engineering procedures. 
•    General professional qualities such as accuracy, tenacity, result-oriented and teamwork-oriented attitude, and diplomacy. 
•    Ability to work independently, be pro-active, report on and escalate relevant issues. 
•    Good communication/interpersonal skills. 
•    Excellent written communication. 
•    An understanding of engineering principles within large scale infrastructure projects.  


Desirable 


•    In-depth knowledge of Configuration Management Standards including ISO 10007, EIA 649 and supporting guidance (e.g. GEIA-HB-649). 
•    Use of Product Lifecycle Management Tools. 
•    Knowledge of other CM standards (e.g. Def Stan 05-57).

 

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.

The SZC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project. #SZCJobs

Configuration Leads (Sizewell C)
Venesky-Brown Recruitment
Sizewell C


Principal Accountabilities:


As a Configuration Lead, you'll dive into diverse areas, connecting with stakeholders to ensure project-wide awareness and implementation of Configuration Management arrangements. You'll tackle emerging risks head-on, supporting pragmatic solutions and simplifying complexities to drive optimal decisions. Collaborating with various teams, you'll shape the project's technical baseline and enhance decision-making and visibility. As a key part of the SZC's technical efforts, you'll play a pivotal role in driving project success. 
 

Responsibilities of this role will also include:  


•    Support execution of the Overarching Configuration Management Plan ensuring a balanced application of Configuration Management tailored to the programme-specific scope. Establishment and maintenance of scope-specific Configuration Management Plan(s) which supports integration with the overarching Configuration Management Plan. 
•    Define, implement and improve Configuration Management arrangements (e.g. standards, procedures, guidance, forms and tools) to ensure adequate and proportionate configuration control is established and maintained. Review and author relevant Configuration Management arrangements (e.g. procedures and guidance). Oversee self-assessments of arrangements and procedures. 
•    Define configuration items selection criteria, oversee identification and recording of Configuration Items and Product Configuration Information within a programme to ensure a proportionate and consistent approach is applied. 
•    Engage with programme stakeholders ensuring configuration baselines are established as an outcome of scheduled events (e.g. Gateway reviews, Replication Reports), configuration changes are identified and managed, configuration records are established and maintained, configuration status reports are produced, configuration audit strategies are agreed and configuration audits are planned and performed. 
•    Administer the change control procedure ensuring configuration changes are registered and recorded, they are confirmed as meeting CM quality criteria, applicable governance meetings are arranged, decisions recorded, and support Engineering/Programme Leads to expedite changes through the process to closure. 
•    Define and develop Configuration Status Reports to support management decision making and continuous improvement activities by providing data-backed reports summarising current and prior configurations, configuration changes, and the outcome of configuration review and audit activities. Oversee production of the Configuration Status Reports by the Configuration Engineer ensuring they are produced to meet programme timescales and quality expectations. 
•    Establish and provide CM training so programme participants understand their responsibilities within CM procedures, the information and records required, and the inter-relationships and dependencies between CM, design management, document control and information management activities. 
•    Participate in Engineering Data Management / Information Management activities to specify CM requirements for CM data and information management systems, and verify they are adequately delivered. Engage with Engineering Data and Tools function to ensure tools can be used for CM identification and Configuration Items are accurately recorded within tools. 
•    Build and manage stakeholder relationships including those within the Technical Directorate, delivery Programmes, and Suppliers. 
•    Act as a coach to wider programme participants in relation to CM topics, and mentor for CM Engineer(s). 
•    Work hand-in-hand with the Programmes engineering delivery teams to ensure the Project dataset is established, maintained and configuration controlled.


Qualifications & Experience:


Essential 


•    Demonstrable experience of how to perform configuration management on large, complex programmes (major infrastructure or similar). 

 
Desirable 


•    CM certification (CM2) and/or equivalent industry experience. 
•    Engineering degree or equivalent industry experience. 
•    Experience in large multi-disciplinary engineering projects. 
•    Prior experience working on HPC or other EPR projects.


Knowledge & Skills:


Essential 


•    Capable of coordinating cross cutting technical topics and applying configuration management procedures. 
•    Capable of defining CM related procedures pragmatically aligned with project needs. 
•    Ability to read, digest and implement engineering procedures. 
•    General professional qualities such as accuracy, tenacity, result-oriented and teamwork-oriented attitude, and diplomacy. 
•    Ability to work independently, be pro-active, report on and escalate relevant issues. 
•    Good communication/interpersonal skills. 
•    Excellent written communication. 
•    An understanding of engineering principles within large scale infrastructure projects.  


Desirable 


•    In-depth knowledge of Configuration Management Standards including ISO 10007, EIA 649 and supporting guidance (e.g. GEIA-HB-649). 
•    Use of Product Lifecycle Management Tools. 
•    Knowledge of other CM standards (e.g. Def Stan 05-57).

 

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.

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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.

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