Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Pay: £ 485.32 PAYE or £673.98
Location: Hinkley Point C, Somerset
Job ID: 1843
Job Purpose:
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.
This post has the responsibility to ensure delivery or part-delivery of the engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction and commissioning activities for the life cycle of the contract or work package in accordance with the overall Project schedule. This post will ensure planning and delivery is in accordance with all safety, quality, time and cost parameters to meet the needs of the Project. The Senior Project Manager reports directly to a Delivery Manager and is responsible for the direction and leadership of all activities associated with the full life cycle delivery of a major contract or contracts assigned to them.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Define and lead on the work scope to be delivered within the contract or package of work and the interfaces to the other elements of the programme
- Secure 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 to the Delivery Manager.
- Ensure schedules are developed and maintained for the contract or package of work. Ensure such schedules are consistent with overall Project schedules (levels 1 and level 2). Escalate any discrepancies to the Project Controls Director
- Ensure the List of Deliverables (LOD) relating to the scope of work is delivered.
- Apply the principles of Earned Value Management (EVM).
- 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.
Nuclear Safety Accountabilities:
This role holds key nuclear safety responsibilities. These are detailed in the Nuclear Baseline.
Nature and Scope:
The Senior Project Manager will apply a project management approach to activities relating to design principles and system design which are undertaken by the Architect Engineer. The Senior Project Manager will also apply project management principles to aspects of work that include detailed design, manufacturing and construction – largely delivered through contracts and commissioning managed through integrated contractor and teams. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the delivery of a specific set of activities to time, cost, safety and quality. These are likely to include the day to day management of specific contracts and the L3, L4 schedule (Detailed Control Schedules) which provide detailed weekly and monthly work execution sequences. The Level 3 and 4 schedules are utilised by external organisations responsible for work execution to better define logistic sequencing and internal organisational hand-offs.
Leadership is crucial as the Senior Project Manager will be required to establish and lead diverse project team members to deliver activities within their programme. Key resources will need to be identified, requested and clear roles and responsibilities will need to be communicated.
The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for setting up and managing a near term work plan to drive the delivery of work on a week by week basis, setting up and compliance with a budget for their areas of activity; development and operation of a risk log- challenging any increase in costs and developing options to reduce cost, establishing and managing the interfaces between their work scope and the work of the other project managers, setting up and operating the quality plan and the change control for their contracts.
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.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Leadership and its application in complex projects.
- 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.
- Excellent presentation, influencing and facilitation skills.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills, able to develop relationships and maintain effective networks.
- Detailed understanding of EPR design and experience.
- A Degree or similar qualification in engineering, construction or related field is desirable but not essential.
- Professional Qualification in Project Management such as APM PPQ or other recognised qualification is desirable but not essential.
- Good knowledge of CDM Regulations.
- 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
