Senior Project Manager

Are you an experienced Senior Project Manager with a proven track record of successfully delivering engineering projects? Are you skilled in managing diverse teams and driving project activities to completion? Are you passionate about ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency in delivering your projects?

If so, join EDF as a Senior Project Manager, and you’ll join one of the most exciting and ambitious projects within EDF.

The Opportunity

Hinkley Point ‘C’ (HPC) is a vital part of the UK’s future energy strategy. As the first of the UK’s next generation of nuclear power stations, HPC is both of high profile and high complexity. Its delivery will be reliant not only on innovative engineering and construction but also on the strongest of Leadership qualities amongst its Senior Project Managers. The role is to provide leadership to ensure the effective delivery of the Civils Programme of HPC, whilst recognising and managing the impacts of the programme on the wider Project.

As our next Senior Project Manager working specifically within the vibrant Balance of Plant (BoP) team, you'll take charge of ensuring the seamless delivery of engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning activities throughout the entire contract or work package lifecycle, aligning meticulously with the overarching project schedule.

In this position, you will play a pivotal role in demonstrating high standards of safety, quality, and efficiency throughout the planning and execution phases, ensuring a comprehensive fulfilment of project requirements. Reporting directly to our Delivery Manager, you'll enhance your leadership skills by supporting a team in taking charge of the entire life cycle delivery of major contracts assigned to you.

Ready to lead and innovate? This is your opportunity to make a lasting impact on our projects and contribute to our success!

Pay, benefits and culture

In addition to a salary of £90,000 depending on experience, we offer flexible benefits that support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Examples include: a market-leading company pension scheme, a bonus plan, health cover, electric vehicle leasing, mental health support and employee discounts.
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 season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, 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 our next Senior Project Manager, your commitment extends to securing vital resources, maintaining SQEP standards, and swiftly addressing personnel shortfalls or issues within your project team. By developing and executing effective strategies in alignment with the overarching Programme Execution Plan (PEP), you set the stage for the seamless management, organisation, and execution of the program. Effective communication with stakeholders is at the core of your responsibilities, ensuring the successful execution of project or PEP strategies within your designated contract or package.

Other roles and responsibilities also include:

• Drive the delivery of contract activities, ensuring they are safe, timely, and within budget, meeting business and technical requirements. Monitor progress against milestones, deadlines, and budget, providing key stakeholders with insightful reports.
• Anticipate, manage, and resolve issues within your contract or package, identifying risks, facilitating resolutions, and updating the program budget.
• Ensure the development and maintenance of schedules for the contract or package, aligning them with overall project schedules. Escalate discrepancies to the Project Controls Director.
• Guarantee the delivery of Contractual Milestones and List of Deliverables (LOD) related to the scope of work.
• Apply the principles of Earned Value Management (EVM) and champion Continuous Improvement principles.
• Cultivate a culture of lessons learned and knowledge capture as part of our everyday business practices.
• Interface with other programs to ensure a high-level view of the total project's progress and identify opportunities for adopting best practices.
• Assure the fulfilment of contractual requirements within your assigned contract or package.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with all members of the project team.

Who you are

In this role, we’re looking for you to demonstrate a 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.

With this, your management of developing engineering design, contract and field execution strategies for project delivery, Multi-discipline EPCM projects, Procurement and management of complex contracts, Control of costs / risks will be paramount in this role. Other requirements for this role also include:

• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Leadership and its application in complex projects. This, in turn, should link with holding excellent communication and organisational skills, able to develop relationships and maintain effective networks.
• 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.
• Previous experience of working within a civils background and experience of working in construction within a nuclear setting would be desirable however, not essential. We’re looking for you to demonstrate your quality of delivery and have a “right first time” approach to your work.

Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero. 

Applications for this role close: Thursday 10th April 

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