Change Engineer (Sizewell C)

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The role of Baseline & Change Engineer is to support on the processes and procedures required to implement change control. This position is working alongside a Baseline & Change Manager to ensure Programmes are identifying, assessing, and implementing changes effectively. Reporting to the Baseline & Change Manager, this role helps to support, facilitate, and develop the SZC Change process as well as assist with preparation for the ICC meetings. Working within the larger Programme Management Office (PMO) team to ensure an effective change process that contributes positively to SZC delivery, safely, on time, to budget and to the agreed quality.

Principal Accountabilities

• Change Management Process and Governance
  • Support the Baseline & Change Manager in ensuring the change management process and governance are correctly and effectively utilised.
  • Provide assistance to the Baseline & Change Manager with the development and implementation of the Change Management Strategy, including facilitating the Change Committee within Sizewell C.
  • Provide ongoing support to ensure the change process aligns with the programme's objectives and governance framework.
• Baseline Management
  • Support the Baseline & Change Manager with the strategy, plan, and procedures for effective baseline management across the programme.
  • Assist in coordinating change inputs from various areas, including project and PMO inputs (e.g., Schedule, Cost & Risk), to facilitate end-to-end management of changes to the baseline, contracts, and the wider programme in line with the change process.
  • Ensure all baseline changes are properly tracked, integrated, and communicated across the project.
• Governance and Reporting
  • Assist in ensuring the change governance process is completed in line with the reporting cycle.
  • Support the consistent application of project controls processes across Sizewell C (SZC) and address any non-compliances.
  • Assist with the production of monthly Baseline & Change reports to provide clear insights into programme performance.
  • Assemble and validate all change management reports, ensuring they accurately reflect performance and decision-making outcomes.
• Stakeholder Support and Collaboration
  • Assist Project Managers and Change Owners in understanding and applying the policies, procedures, and standards required for effective change control.
  • Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure that the programme is identifying, assessing, and implementing changes effectively.
  • Provide advisory support to delivery teams to enhance their understanding of the change process and improve compliance with governance requirements.
• Quality Assurance and Decision Support
  • Challenge and assure the quality of change deliverables submitted into the change process, ensuring they are fully assessed for scope, schedule, cost, and risk impacts.
  • Validate that all impacts on other areas are adequately assessed to support decision-making processes.
  • Assist in monitoring and reviewing the quality of change proposals submitted against the baseline, ensuring alignment with programme objectives.
• Committee Facilitation and Governance Bodies
  • Support the Baseline & Change Manager with preparations for Change Committee meetings (typically held monthly) to ensure decisions are well-informed.
  • Provide support to relevant governance bodies, enabling them to perform their functions efficiently and effectively.
• System Implementation and Validation
  • Validate that approved changes are implemented in SZC systems to enable accurate reporting against performance metrics.
  • Ensure all changes are integrated into systems to maintain programme-wide consistency and data accuracy.
• Training and Capability Development
  • Provide training and guidance to team members and stakeholders on change management procedures and tools.

Essential

• Educated to at least degree level, or equivalent training and experience.

Desirable

• Practical working knowledge of Project Control processes and tools.
• Experience with a range of Project/ Programme management software packages workflows of communications between contractor and client.
• Experience and understanding of change control principles and experience of managing, controlling and governing change against a defined baseline on a major infrastructure Programme/ Project.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience

• Professional work experience in one or more specific disciplines in the Programme, Project, Controls, or Commercial Management disciplines.
• Knowledge of project structures e.g., Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) & Cost breakdown Structures (CBS).
• Knowledge of change control and understanding of governance.
• Ability to work in a team as well as on their own initiative.
• Skilled at interfacing and operating in a large corporate environment.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.