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Site Delivery Lead
Venesky Brown
Sizewell C

Reporting as the Site Delivery Lead, this post is responsible for supporting the overarching direction & leadership of activities associated with the full life cycle delivery of the Temporary Construction Area sub-programme.  You will have responsibility to lead/manage a group of Senior Project Managers and Managers, to ensure delivery of a large scope of Earthworks, Enabling works, Civils, Networks and Buildings. The role will entail management of a matrix team of wider disciplines forming the project delivery team.

The role will assist the Site Delivery in developing the strategies for delivering scope to cost, schedule and quality.  This post also has the responsibility to ensure operational delivery of all the engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction and commissioning activities or work package, in accordance with the overall Project schedule.

Job Responsibilities:

Site Based role at Sizewell C in Suffolk with hybrid working available. £700 - £750 per day inside IR35. 
•    Work with the Project Teams to define the work scope to be delivered within the contracts or packages of work and the interfaces to the other elements of the programme.
•    Work with Site Delivery to secure the required resources to meet project requirements, ensuring the maintenance of SQEP for any assigned resource and promptly identifying any personnel shortfalls or issues within the project team.
•    Providing direction to the teams to ensure effective execution of strategies and plans in line with the overall Programme Execution Plan (PEP), setting out how the programme of work will be managed, organised and executed.
•    Maintaining effective communications with all stakeholders and execute the project or PEP strategies.
•    Drive the delivery of the contract or package activities to ensure they are delivered safely on time, to budget, meeting business and technical requirements. Monitor and manage the progress of the programme - track progress against milestones, deadlines, budget and provide the Site Delivery Leadership team with reports on these matters.
•    Identify risks and facilitate the resolution of issues raised, develop and propose updates to the programme and/or budget.
•    Drive the team to ensure schedule is developed and maintained on their scope, consistently within the overall Project schedule. Escalate any discrepancies to the Site Delivery Lead.
•    Ensure the List of Deliverables (LOD) relating to the scope of work is delivered.
•    Apply the principles of Continuous Improvement.
•    Ensure that lessons-learnt and knowledge-capture are practiced as business as usual.
•    Interface with other programmes to ensure a high-level view of how the total project is progressing and to identify and adopt the use of best practice.
•    Ensure that contract or package contractual requirements are fulfilled.
•    Establish and maintain effective working relationships with all project team members.

Qualifications/Experience:

    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.
•    Demonstrate success in managing / developing:
•    Engineering design, contract and field execution strategies for project delivery,
•    Multi-discipline EPCM projects,
•    Procurement and management of complex contracts,
•    Control of costs; risk; schedule and change and proficient in the use of Earned Value tools,
•    Close out of commercial claims and the associated negotiations.
•    Experience of successfully engaging groups of stakeholders.
•    Able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management and facilitation. Proficient in the use of estimating scheduling, programming and risk tools.
•    Experience of managing contractors, consultants and other advisors throughout large and complex construction projects, in a regulated environment. Including NEC and FIDIC contracts.
•    Good presentation, influencing and facilitation skills. Excellent communication and organisational skills, able to develop relationships and maintain effective networks.
•    Strong numerical and analytical skills.
•    Detailed understanding of EPR design and experience.
•    Degree and chartered status in an engineering, construction or other related field.
•    Good knowledge of CDM Regulations.
•    Knowledge and / or practitioner of Project Management with experience of applying either; APM body of knowledge and OGC's Prince 2.
•    Can demonstrate experience of managing project through the project lifecycle from concept to handover.
•    Understanding the needs of nuclear quality and how nuclear quality is assured and controlled.
•    Understand how to apply a graded approach to quality.

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.