Construction Manager

We are looking for a Construction Manager to join our Hartlepool Projects Team on a permanent basis, based at Hartlepool Station. As our Construction Manager, you will work closely with the Hartlepool Project Delivery Team, Defueling, and Deconstruction Team, although support to other activities may also be undertaken. You will be managing and coordinating several major projects from inception through to completion, while managing a team of engineers.

Pay, benefits and culture

We can offer a competitive salary from £45,045 to £110,723 and you’ll be appointed based on the parameters outlined in the Nuclear Generation Company Agreement as well as your existing competencies, experience and qualifications. This is a full-time, site based position. Alongside a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, 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.

What you will be doing

As the Construction Manager, you’ll be responsible for identifying, implementing and complying with applicable company safety, environmental and quality procedures and policy, and relevant legislative and regulatory requirements. You will ensure a proactive and balanced approach to safety (Nuclear, radiological, conventional & environmental) and that frameworks exist for maintaining the Health & Safety of all personnel (including contractors) working on Central Projects on site. Additionally, you will co-ordinate, including Field Supervision, of all construction activities and personnel at site working on the Central Projects’ portfolio and the management of any Project Engineer engaged on construction activities.

Who you are

As a Construction Manager at EDF, you will be educated to HNC level as a minimum, ideally in engineering, or equivalent in an appropriate discipline and hold a safety management qualification (e.g. NEBOSH). With relevant Project Management/Delivery of Work experience and a good knowledge of all relevant HSE, and in particular CDM legislation, you will be well versed in the preparation of reports and information. With strong proven evidence of garnering industrial, nuclear and environmental safety culture, you will bring experience of managing projects throughout the full construction/commissioning/hand-over lifecycle, ideally across a range of complex multi-discipline projects and environments.

You’ll be responsible for the management of an integrated team including staff, agency and contract personnel. You will have evident success in managing / developing field execution strategies for project delivery, large multi-discipline projects, control of costs and change, close out of commercial claims and the associated negotiations, the design / construction interface to ensure a smooth transition / handover and how to address the issues which occur at this interface and the construction / commissioning interface to ensure a smooth transition / handover and how to address the issues which occur at this interface. However, role specific training shall be provided to the successful candidate.

This is a really exciting time to join the EDF team at Hartlepool, so if this role sounds right for you, we’d love to hear from you! Applicants will be required to obtain CTC level vetting prior to taking up their duties. 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 1st June 2025. Interviews and a potential assessment day will follow soon after.