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Tunnel Chief Engineer (Sizewell C)

Job Category:  Engineering
Contract Partner Company:  Balfour Beatty
Employing Company:  Balfour Beatty

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Opportunity for a Tunnel Chief Engineer (Sizewell C) working with Balfour Beatty on the Sizewell C Project,


The purpose of the role is:


Provide industry leading experience of subject matter to the delivery team at site, providing technical leadership to all underground operations. Act as the principal in-house advisor to the business for future underground tenders and projects.


Main Duties:

 

  • Provide technical support and management of underground operations across CWA M&T, in particular with regard to TBM design, fabrication, supply and excavation; an Tunnel Shaft Connection packages.
  • Peer review of input and support management of consultants and specialist subcontractors in the production of both permanent and temporary works designs and construction.
  • Lead peer reviews related to subject matter expertise.
  • Advise on 'best' engineering of temporary works and construction methods/sequence.
  • Advise on degree of risk exposure implicit in the work the CWA undertakes and how best to manage associated risks.
  • Ensuring that factors affecting project delivery are identified and addressed in a value-engineered, cost-effective and safe manner and appropriate risk management provisions implemented. 
  • Value engineering to identify optimum design and construction solutions.
  • Advise on construction methods, e.g. sprayed concrete mining, secondary concrete lining, tunnel water management, complex reinforced concrete structures, complex lifting.
  • Create and critique scopes for relevant areas of work.
  • Develop and perform detailed root cause analysis and problem solving for engineering problems.
  • Maintain links and working relationships with specialist consultants and subcontractors.
  • Build and maintain a network of key specialists, both in-house and external.
  • Maintain a high degree of technical competence and an awareness of current sources of external, practical, cost-effective design and construction advice in various specialist areas.
  • Support contracts and determine robust designs and assurance through internal procedures
  • Mentoring of junior members of staff.


Qualifications/Experience : 


Essential

 

  • Up-to-date knowledge of construction methodologies, specifically large scale reinforced concrete structures, tunnelling and Temporary Works.
  • Proficient knowledge of project planning
  • Safe systems of work
  • CDM Regulation and ACOP awareness
  • Ability to work across multiple projects (UK)
  • Confidence to challenge the normal approach to construction
  • Comfortable with working in digital models
  • Leadership
  • Facilitation skills
  • Able to work with complexity and detail
  • Able to form arguments and influence outcomes


Desirable

 

  • Considered as an industry leader in subject matter


Essential

 

  • Chartered Engineer in Civil Engineering or equivalent 
  • Broad on-site experience from across a range of territories 


Desirable

 

  • Experience of working within the requirements of a highly regulated site preferred.


Benefits:

 

  • An attractive / negotiated salary
  • Company Car
  • 42 core base hours per week
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Hybrid working scheme available
  • Pension savings schemes

 

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

Opportunity for a Tunnel Chief Engineer (Sizewell C) working with Balfour Beatty on the Sizewell C Project,


The purpose of the role is:


Provide industry leading experience of subject matter to the delivery team at site, providing technical leadership to all underground operations. Act as the principal in-house advisor to the business for future underground tenders and projects.


Main Duties:

 

  • Provide technical support and management of underground operations across CWA M&T, in particular with regard to TBM design, fabrication, supply and excavation; an Tunnel Shaft Connection packages.
  • Peer review of input and support management of consultants and specialist subcontractors in the production of both permanent and temporary works designs and construction.
  • Lead peer reviews related to subject matter expertise.
  • Advise on 'best' engineering of temporary works and construction methods/sequence.
  • Advise on degree of risk exposure implicit in the work the CWA undertakes and how best to manage associated risks.
  • Ensuring that factors affecting project delivery are identified and addressed in a value-engineered, cost-effective and safe manner and appropriate risk management provisions implemented. 
  • Value engineering to identify optimum design and construction solutions.
  • Advise on construction methods, e.g. sprayed concrete mining, secondary concrete lining, tunnel water management, complex reinforced concrete structures, complex lifting.
  • Create and critique scopes for relevant areas of work.
  • Develop and perform detailed root cause analysis and problem solving for engineering problems.
  • Maintain links and working relationships with specialist consultants and subcontractors.
  • Build and maintain a network of key specialists, both in-house and external.
  • Maintain a high degree of technical competence and an awareness of current sources of external, practical, cost-effective design and construction advice in various specialist areas.
  • Support contracts and determine robust designs and assurance through internal procedures
  • Mentoring of junior members of staff.


Qualifications/Experience : 


Essential

 

  • Up-to-date knowledge of construction methodologies, specifically large scale reinforced concrete structures, tunnelling and Temporary Works.
  • Proficient knowledge of project planning
  • Safe systems of work
  • CDM Regulation and ACOP awareness
  • Ability to work across multiple projects (UK)
  • Confidence to challenge the normal approach to construction
  • Comfortable with working in digital models
  • Leadership
  • Facilitation skills
  • Able to work with complexity and detail
  • Able to form arguments and influence outcomes


Desirable

 

  • Considered as an industry leader in subject matter


Essential

 

  • Chartered Engineer in Civil Engineering or equivalent 
  • Broad on-site experience from across a range of territories 


Desirable

 

  • Experience of working within the requirements of a highly regulated site preferred.


Benefits:

 

  • An attractive / negotiated salary
  • Company Car
  • 42 core base hours per week
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Hybrid working scheme available
  • Pension savings schemes

 

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.

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.

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