About the Role
Contract Manager
Are you looking for an opportunity to use your skills and experience to work in helping ensure that our Contractors support the safe and reliable operation of a nuclear plant?
The Opportunity
As one of our Station Contract Manager’s at Heysham 2 power station, you’ll be involved with leading the commercial management of all contracts, including supplier appraisal, supporting the development of specifications, tender preparation and assessment as well as negotiation, placement and claim management.
You’ll hold and manage the contract expenditure budget on behalf of the Station and act as a focal point and single point of instruction between EDF Energy and contractor.
Pay, benefits and culture
We are offering a starting salary of between £45,641 and £81,263 with terms and conditions covered by the EDF Nuclear Generation Company Agreement. The starting salary for the appointment will be dependent on your existing salary, competence, experience and qualification. We also offer an attractive pension scheme along with some great company benefits. We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to travel season ticket loans.
Here at EDF UK, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.
We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.
What you’ll be doing
As the Station Contract Manager, you’ll:
Ensure all activities are carried out in full compliance within agreed safety and environmental standards and expectations.
Support the provision of a controlled and stable supply chain environment through the application of agreed procurement strategies.
Provide commercial leadership for allocated contracts ensuring ‘value for money’ by carrying out supplier appraisals, supporting development of specifications, tender preparation etc
Have oversight of contract performance, coordination, management and reporting of all contractor activity in accordance with targets set for safety, quality, delivery (time) and cost.
Identifying, understanding and managing commercial risks and, when appropriate, seeking support from our central organisation, to minimise the companies risk exposure.
Who you are
We’re looking for you to come into this role with demonstrable experience within a commercial environment, contract management and supplier negotiations and input your experiences into this role. You will also need to be results focussed, able to communicate with stakeholders at all levels both internally and externally. You’ll act as a single point of contact with our resident contract organisations, therefore leadership and/mentoring experience is desirable.
Nuclear Safety is our overriding priority, so a good understanding of related policy and legislation is beneficial.
As a minimum, you will need to hold a HNC or equivalent in either a technical or business discipline to be eligible for this role (For example MCIPS qualification or working towards)
Closing date for applications is Thursday July 10th
Interviews will be held on Tuesday July 22nd and Wednesday July 23rd
To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) which will, ordinarily, require you to have British residency for the last 3 years.
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