Milestone Project Manager

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Permanent Accountabilities

• Coordinate all contract administration activities (with support of a Commercial Manager) including variations, claims, technical queries and instructions, using CEMAR.
• 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 Senior Project Manager.
• Resolution of issues/NCR's/etc during the manufacturing process to ensure quality and schedule are maintained.
• Management of all change to the contract including - scope definition, business justification and implementation of agreed change in line with associated governance.
• Ensure level 3 schedules are developed and maintained for the contract or package of work. Ensure such schedules are consistent with overall Project schedules.
• Liaison with HPC Site team to ensure all pre-shipping activities are complete to facilitate seamless delivery in line with schedule requirements.
• Develop and implement strategies and plans in line with the overall Programme Definition Document (PgDD), setting out how the programme of work will be managed, organised and executed.
• Maintain effective communications with all stakeholders and executing the project strategies within their contract or package of work.
• Apply the principles of Earned Value Management (EVM) and other usual commercial reporting requirements.
• Apply the principles of Continuous Improvement, ensuring 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.

Key Deliverables

• Project Definition Document (PjDD)
• Progress reports (including Earned Value)

Experience

• Good presentation, influencing and facilitation skills. Excellent communication and organisational skills, able to develop relationships and maintain effective networks.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Detailed understanding of PWR design and experience in PWR operations advantageous but not essential.
• Working knowledge of French language an advantage.
• Degree and chartered status in an engineering, construction, physics or other related field.
• Good knowledge of CDM Regulations.
• Knowledge and/or practitioner of Project Management with experience of applying either; APM body of knowledge and OGC's Prince 2.
• 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,
• Experience of successfully engaging groups of stakeholders.

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.