Lead Piping delivery manager - Sizewell C - #1801621

About The Role

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Lead Piping delivery manager on the Sizewell C Project. You’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.

Sizewell C will create a 3.2 gigawatt power station generating low-carbon electricity for at least 60 years. It will be built next to Sizewell B which began operating in 1995 and has so far avoided more than 76 million tonnes of carbon emissions. Our proposal is to build a new nuclear power station on the East Suffolk coast which will supply 6 million homes with low-carbon electricity.

This role will be hybrid with a minimum of 1-2 days at the Aztec West offices in Bristol.

What you'll be doing

This role is critical in developing the overall strategy and plans for piping

delivery.

You will;

• Support the execution of the Bulk strategy within the matrix organisation of the MEHA, and lead the delivery of piping spools supporting the SZC overall programme.
• Effectively lead a small but high-performing team with autonomy, referencing back to senior leadership for guidance and support on critical matters.
• Ensure harmonized processes and IT tools across all fabrication assets and integrate IP teams, with support of the Lead PM BNI, BOP and NSSS.
• Operate effectively within a complex matrix organisation and in multidisciplinary working groups.
• Have adequate cross sector experience and communication skills to be able to influence key stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
• Be a contributor to the overall output and related strategies of the MEH team.
• These accountabilities are not an exhaustive list of the responsibilities and activities that the job holder may be required to undertake.
  
  

Who we're looking for

• Educated to a degree level in Mechanical Engineering
• Project Management Experience
• Manufacturing management experience (Piping fabrication a plus)
• Proven leadership experience
• Experience of managing and co-ordination major EPC contractors, interfacing with a suite of suppliers, disciplines, stakeholders and integration of the same into the overall project program.
• Able to obtain a security clearance
  
  

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
  
  

About Us

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.