Senior Project Manager – BoP - #1692961

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Senior Project Manager (BoP) (EPR experience required) 1108CW

Aztec West, Bristol (hybrid)

£78,000 – £85,000 + 10% bonus + 15% pension + 36 holidays

Permanent Position

Job Purpose (Vacancy Overview)

The Sizewell C Project requires a Senior Project Managers to manage the end to end delivery (EPCC: Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning) of a scope of Systems, Structures and Components (SSCs), ensuring that their scope is delivered Safely, to Quality, on Time and within Cost parameters for their respective contracts/scope.

Reporting to the area Programme Manager/ Director, this post is responsible for the direction & leadership of all activities associated with the full life cycle delivery of the contracts assigned to them. You will have responsibility to lead/manage a group of Project Managers, to ensure delivery of a large scope of Systems, Structures and Components up to a capital value of £100m-£500m (CI-BOP). In addition to the Project Managers who will directly report to them, the Senior Project Manager will have to manage a matrix team of other disciplines forming the project delivery team eg: the SZC supply chain team, the Responsible Designer (RD), the SZC quality team and suppliers.

Our Project Manager will focus on one of the following area:

• CI/BOP: to oversee all activities associated with the delivery of engineering contracts and securing resources which meet business and technical requirements, ensuring they’re delivered safely, on time and within budget
  
  

Principal Accountabilities

• Define the work scope to be delivered within the contracts or packages of work and the interfaces to the other elements of the programme
• Securing the required resources to meet their project requirements, ensuring the maintenance of SQEP for any assigned resource and promptly identifying any personnel shortfalls or issues within their project team
• Developing and executing effective execution 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. The PEP sets out the “why”, “what”, “how”, “when” and “who” for the delivery of the programme
• Maintaining effective communications with all stakeholders and execute the project or PEP strategies within their contract or package of work
• 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 key stakeholders with reports on these matters
• Anticipate, manage and resolve issues within the contact or package. Identify risks and facilitate the resolution of all issues raised, develop and update the programme budget, and escalate any issues.
• Ensure schedule is developed and maintained on their scope, consistently with the overall Project schedule. Escalate any discrepancies to the Programme Director
• Ensure the List of Deliverables (LOD) relating to the scope of work is delivered.
• Apply the principles of Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Report EV progress to Senior Management on a monthly basis.
• Review Contractor’s applications for payment
• 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
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, 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, physics 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