About the Role
Station Contract Manager (12 Months Fixed Term Contract)
The Opportunity
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, whilst helping ensure that our Contractors support the safe and reliable operation of a nuclear plant?
Using your skills and knowledge in this line of work, as a Station Contract Manager on Heysham 1 you’ll lead the commercial management of allocated contracts, including supplier appraisal, development of specifications, tender preparation, tender assessment, negotiation, contract placement and claim management.
You will hold and manage the contract expenditure budget on behalf of the Station and be a focal point and single point of instruction between EDF Energy and the contractor.
If this position sounds like the job for you, we would be delighted to consider your application!
Pay, benefits and culture:
The salary range associated with this role is between £45,641 to £81,263 and you’ll be appointed based on the parameters outlined in the Company Agreement as well as your existing salary, competence, experience and qualifications. Alongside a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal. 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.
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 a Station Contract Manager, you will:
- Ensure all activities comply with 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 conducting 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 company’s risk exposure.
Who you are
- You will have proven experience of contract management and supplier negotiations and will be results focussed as well as able to communicate with stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally. You will act as a single point of contact with our resident contract organisations; therefore, leadership/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. If you hold, or are studying towards, CIPS/MCIPS you may have an advantage.
To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.
Closing date for applications: Sunday January 25th and interviews will follow in early February.
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