Project Controls Manager

The Installed Base BU is in charge of Framatome's nuclear engineering and services for operating nuclear plants, new build projects, and installations in the decommissioning phase. The Installed Base BU has more than 60 years of international experience in all types of technologies on more than 380 reactors worldwide. With 4,600 employees in 15 countries, the Installed Base BU has a strong identity and its vision is to: “Deliver innovative products and services by putting our high-level skills to work to guarantee throughout the world a safe and competitive, low carbon source of energy.”

Framatome is a major international player in the nuclear energy market recognised for its innovative solutions and value-added technologies for designing, building, maintaining, and advancing the global nuclear fleet. The company designs, manufactures, and installs components, fuel, and instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants and offers a full range of reactor services.

Due to our ongoing growth, we are recruiting a Project Controls Manager to be based either at Sizewell or Cranfield. The Project Controls Manager is responsible for managing a multidisciplinary team of project controls professionals to deliver holistic, integrated project controls outputs. This can be for an individual large project, a programme of related projects, or a business line portfolio. It is expected that each Business Line will have one dedicated lead project controls manager to oversee all projects within this portfolio, delivering not just the integrated outputs for each project but also overall Business Line level outputs and analysis.

The role would be expected to focus the majority of their time and effort on managing the team, coordinating the project controls workload, identifying and escalating or resolving issues, and assuring and challenging their outputs against Framatome processes and quality expectations, rather than working directly on producing outputs themselves. They will also maintain a focus on the continuous improvement of the outputs, tools, and processes in their team, working closely with the central PMO to develop the function further.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead the Project Controls team, consisting of project controllers and discipline specialists, through:

• Conducting day-to-day line management duties for all members of the team.
• Ensuring the development of all members of the team through coaching, guidance, and on-the-job training as well as coordinating formal training requirements.
• Review and assure all outputs of the team for compliance to Framatome Ltd processes and quality standards, identifying shortfalls and addressing these through staff development or tool/process/template refinement.
• Have an active role in resource planning and the recruitment process including interviews.
• Support and ensure the production of quality, coherent and aligned Planning, Scheduling, Cost Control, RAID and Document Control outputs by all members of the team, ensuring projects have:

• Fully aligned breakdown structures covering the full scope of project work.
• Suitably detailed and justified cost estimates for all work packages, used as the basis of budgets in the cost model, with contingencies and mitigations in place aligned with RAID registers.
• Baselined, fully logic linked, cost and resourced loaded plans in line with the WBS and cost estimate/model, with suitable contingencies and mitigations in place aligned with RAID registers.
• EVM and Productivity reporting combining cost and schedule outputs into a consolidated picture.

Profile

The Project Controls Manager will have worked across most or all of the project controls sub-disciplines for several years each and is capable of producing high-quality outputs that integrate all of these disciplines holistically. You will be confident in taking an inquisitive, analytical and (where needed) challenging role within the project, holding project and work package managers to account and driving accuracy and best practice into the project. You will have experience being a senior member of a project controls team, being capable of working fully autonomously with little to no oversight and is seen as an expert who other project controllers approach for guidance/coaching on, and assurance of, their project controls outputs.

You will also have had some experience in developing tools, processes, guidance and standards for project controls processes and outputs, implementing these within a project. As an experienced person in this role, you would have managed a multidisciplinary team of project controls professionals, producing integrated outputs for several years and being fully capable in line management. You will have a strong vision of the future of your team and the business, being capable of actively planning and driving towards this future.

Benefits

In return, we are offering a competitive salary and excellent benefits to include:

• 25 days annual leave per year raising to 30 (x1 day for 2 years’ service).
• 8% Employer pension contribution (salary sacrifice) – 1% min Employee.
• Individual and family private health care.
• Life assurance (4x salary).
• Employee assistance programme (EAP).
• Income Protection.
• Professional Body Membership (1 per year).
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Access to language course.
• Plus, more including access to training and development opportunities.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer. We value and plan to continue to build on the benefits of our diverse working environment and recognise a priority to improve gender mix. Everyone will be considered without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

Job location

United Kingdom - Sizewell (UK)

Minimum Requirements

Minimum level of education required: Others

Minimum level of experience required: Experienced

Background checking required: Yes

General Information

Framatome is an international leader in nuclear energy recognized for its innovative, digital and value-added solutions for the global nuclear fleet. With worldwide expertise and a proven track record for reliability and performance, the company designs, services and installs components, fuel, and instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants. Its more than 18,000 employees work every day to help Framatome's customers supply ever cleaner, safer and more economical low-carbon energy.