Area Construction Lead in Bristol

Amentum will inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities. People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

About the Opportunity: We employ the UK's most experienced and skilled technical services professionals and have grown to over 8,000 people in locations across the UK - we provide the resources to turn great ideas into reality, and we offer capable and committed individuals the opportunity to shape their careers how they wish. Hinkley Point C (HPC) is the first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years, HPC's two EPR reactors will be capable of generating 3.26GW of secure, low carbon electricity for 60 years, enough electricity to power around 6 million homes. In addition to the projects ‘clean energy’ benefits, HPC will create thousands of jobs and bring lasting benefits to the UK economy.

The Area Construction Lead will be responsible for planning and integrating all aspects of the safe delivery, both in an industrial and nuclear safety context, of a significant geographical area of works on the Hinkley Point C project, ensuring the responsibilities of the principal contractor are achieved.

• Ensuring that detailed plans are developed to a facility and or area basis which integrate, co-ordinate and sequence work activities to achieve the optimum construction sequence, paying particular attention to contractor interfaces.
• Enabling the project construction activities in compliance with our established processes and procedures and licensing conditions.
• Looking ahead to identify risks and developing mitigating options in sufficient time to prevent a negative impact on the construction site performance.
• Implementing cross cutting reviews of work scope where the interfaces in areas are intersected by many different contractors.
• Ensuring that conventional and nuclear safety considerations are recognised as essential to the success of the project and built into the planning processes.
• Developing a plan which clearly identifies site need dates for critical equipment and materials and implementing monitoring processes to give early warning of any threat or risk to meeting the need dates and developing mitigating actions in time to avoid any impacts to site activities.
• Developing detailed access routes for personnel and equipment, identifying suitability of the access routes, impacts to other work activities and identification of temporary access openings for equipment installation.
• Implementing a construction build philosophy that recognises the key approach of design by system, maximising productivity by bulk area build and transition to system completion for turnover.
• Integrating the supply chain partners’ resources to maximise their expertise and skill set when developing the schedule and construction strategies to ensure schedule ownership and best practice implementation.
• Liaise with the Construction Planning team and multi-disciplinary teams to advise of any issues that come to light that should be addressed contractually such as; issuing required notices and matters relating to changes/variations.

• Broad knowledge of Civil Engineering Design, Commercial and Construction delivery, and the integration of these activities with other trades.
• Experience across many types of EPC contracts, specifically knowledge of the NEC and FIDIC contracts.
• A strong delivery focused mind-set is required with a good understanding of project planning processes and the ability to identify and resolve complex interfaces.
• Detailed and wide range of knowledge in construction techniques with high technical expertise across many types of construction and forms of contract, specifically the NEC ECC and FIDIC contract.
• Management of strategic planning developing construction sequencing and recovery plans.
• Ability to work collaboratively and in an integrated team environment and communicate with wider project stakeholders effectively.
• Proven experience in the delivery of large complex construction projects to required quality, budget and schedule.
• Good working knowledge of commercial principles affecting construction matters.
• Working understanding of the post holder’s obligations under CDM Regulations.
• Degree in Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or Equivalent in Construction Management or related subject.

Our Culture: Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centered on inclusion and diversity. We partner with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility, please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team.