Change Engineer in Leiston, Suffolk

Venesky Brown is currently looking for a Change Manager to join the Site Delivery team at the Sizewell C nuclear new build project in Suffolk. This is a long-term contract role based in Suffolk with hybrid working available.

Job Purpose / Overview:

SZC Project Controls will serve as a centre of excellence, managing and strategically using delivery performance management information. Our team will enable successful delivery of SZC Project through proactive Project Controls that drives forward-looking solutions to continuously improve performance.

The Baseline & Change Management discipline is accountable for managing the administration of approved baselines on the Project and the establishment of a Change Management process through an Investment Change Committee (ICC) model. The Baseline & Change Management discipline is responsible for ensuring that the Project scope, baseline, forecasts and schedule are maintained in alignment with acknowledged approved changes processed through both Project level and Programme level ICC meetings. Changes are captured and managed through the change management process, with their progression through various statuses governed via ICC meetings. The Baseline & Change Management discipline focuses on facilitating and implementing the change process while ensuring that delivery teams operate within the defined governance framework for baseline transfers and contingency draw-downs.

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.

Knowledge & Skills:

• 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.

Qualifications & Experience:

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

Vacancy Overview:

Are you looking for a career which is rewarding, at the cutting edge of project development and where you can really make a difference? Come and join our expanding Sizewell C (SZC) team and work on one of the most exciting and largest megaprojects in the UK, whilst being at the forefront of the UK’s climate change agenda and energy policy. Following on from the success of Hinkley Point C (HPC), the SZC Project is a nuclear new build project in Suffolk, which has obtained planning approval and Government financing support. The project has started construction and is now seeking private investment. When completed, it will provide dependable electricity to 6 million homes for 60 years, which along with renewables, will support Britain to achieve Net Zero by 2050.