Senior Project Manager (HVAC) - Sizewell C - Bristol

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About the role

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Senior Project Manager (HVAC) on the Sizewell C Project. You'll work with true experts who'll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we'll help you take it much, much further.

Sizewell C will create a 3.2-gigawatt power station generating low-carbon electricity for at least 60 years. It will be built next to Sizewell B which began operating in 1995 and has so far avoided more than 76 million tonnes of carbon emissions.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Project Manager (HVAC), you will have the following accountabilities:

• Take responsibility for delivering a defined scope for engineering and procurement activities.
• Be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of complex high value equipment supply contracts and for ensuring they meet the needs of the SZC project.
• Be responsible for coordinating the multi-disciplinary team to provide the necessary input to the contract delivery.
• Manage the relationships with Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers.
• Prepare with the multidisciplinary team the ITT packs required to procure equipment supply contracts (terms & conditions, contractual appendices and technical specifications).
• Manage internal interfaces (between contracts and systems) and external interfaces (between programme scopes) to ensure a coordinated approach to design and delivery.
• Manage early engagement with stakeholders (including equipment suppliers) to identify obsolescence issues and other risks to the replication of HPC.
• Ensure that lessons-learnt and knowledge-capture are practiced as business as usual.
• Define the work scope to be delivered within the contract or package of work and the interfaces to the other elements of the programme.
• Drive the delivery of the contract or package activities to ensure they are delivered safely, on time, to budget, meeting business & technical requirements.
• Ensure that contract or package contractual requirements are fulfilled.

Who we're looking for

We're looking for:

• Previous project management experience.
• Experience of the pre-tender and tender stages of procuring contracts for the design, manufacturing and/or installation of industrial equipment.
• Experience of project management/supply management of NEC3/4 contracts.
• Good understanding of the complexity of major projects, including interface management between scope areas.
• Experience of managing multi-disciplinary delivery teams and successfully coordinating multi-disciplinary design/procurement work and driving design/procurement teams to deliver on time.
• Project management or project engineering experience, from concept to handover.
• Background in mechanical, electrical, process, systems or civil engineering for large industrial plants.
• Demonstrate specific success in managing / developing:
  - Engineering design, contract and field execution strategies for project delivery,
  - Multi-discipline EPCC projects,
  - Procurement and management of complex contracts,
  - Control of costs; risk; schedule and change and proficient in the use of Earned Value tools,
  - Close out of commercial claims and the associated negotiations.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

About us

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.