Project Lead - Backfill in Bridgwater

Project Lead - Backfill

Backfill specialist to lead all pre‑construction and delivery activities for the backfill scope.

The role requires rigorous technical preparation, planning, coordination and compliance before construction begins.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Collaborate with the Client's consultant, Alliance design teams, and Engineering function to shape permanent and temporary works designs that meet safety, sustainability, buildability, and quality requirements.
• Provide expert guidance to the excavation and backfill technical team, ensuring designs, temporary works, and technical solutions are robust, coordinated, and fit for purpose.
• Manage the Technical Lead and oversee technical support to the development of backfill designs by the Responsible Designer, including temporary works for ramps, accesses, retaining structures, material quality control, monitoring schemes, and site trials.
• Own and update the 4D backfill model, ensuring construction rates, assumptions, sequencing, and methods are valid, integrated, and approved by CWP and RD.
• Contribute technical judgement within the Backfill Steering Group, supporting decisions on material types, suitability, constructability and pragmatic solutions.
• Lead cost estimation activities with Alliance estimators and the TOC Manager, contributing to the TOC process and ensuring planning and execution strategies are accurate and achievable.
• Monitor budgets throughout delivery, investigate variances, identify mitigation measures and escalates issues where required.
• Develop subcontract scopes of work, compile required documentation, and lead tendering activities, including technical evaluations and clarification processes.
• Participate in subcontractor negotiations with the Alliance Purchaser and support final contract formation with the Alliance Commercial team.
• Define the delivery strategy for the backfill package during pre‑construction and author the Project Execution Plan, supporting the TOC Manager in securing Notice to Proceed.
• Establish and integrate the logistics strategy into overall delivery planning.
• Lead delivery performance, ensuring works are executed safely, on programme, to budget and in compliance with business, technical, and quality standards.
• Track progress against milestones, deadlines and budgets, providing reporting and analysis to key Alliance stakeholders.
• Review and authorise subcontractor and supplier payment applications.
• Ensure appropriate resource levels—technical, operational, and logistical—are provided to meet delivery demands.
• Work with the CWA Head of Quality to determine the appropriate inspection structure and manage the CWA quality inspection team on day‑to‑day issues, escalating problems as needed.
• Identify, manage, and resolve issues and risks within the package; update budgets and forecasts and escalates concerns where necessary.
• Ensure construction schedules are developed, maintained, and aligned with programme requirements.
• Ensure all List of Deliverables (LOD / MIDTP / TIDP) related to the scope are completed and compliant.
• Embed lessons learned and knowledge capture as part of routine delivery processes.
• Ensure all contractual obligations are met and manage potential compensation events in collaboration with Alliance Commercial.
• Manage interfaces with adjacent works and coordinate activities across earthworks, temporary works, and construction of neighbouring structures to ensure cohesive, conflict‑free delivery.
• Experience in demolition.
• Strong experience in logistics management.
• Key Skills & Competencies
• Expertise in excavating and backfill activities on site.
• Leading a large project team on large civil engineering projects.
• Working transversely with wider project teams to achieve shared desired outcomes.
• NEC4 SC and ECC contract experience.
• Member of APM, PMI or similar project management bodies.
• Experience working in Alliances/Joint Ventures within construction (desirable).
• SMSTS or IOSH Managing safety (desirable).
• Additional Information

All positions are employed directly with either Laing O’Rourke or Bouygues Travaux Public and include competitive salaries, private medical insurance, company pension schemes and annual holiday allowance.

Some grades will also include a company car allowance.

Unless stated otherwise all positions are based at Hinkley Point C in Somerset.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at BYLOR.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.

We are committed to interviewing any candidates who disclose having a disability and meet the minimum requirements in the job advert.

If invited to interview, please inform us of any reasonable adjustments you may need in order to attend.

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