Senior Project Manager

2 weeks ago

Bridgwater Somerset, United Kingdom Knewin Full time

Are you an experienced Senior Project Manager with a proven track record of successfully delivering engineering projects? Are you skilled in managing diverse teams and driving project activities to completion? Are you passionate about ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency in delivering your projects?

If so, join EDF as a Senior Project Manager, and you’ll join one of the most exciting and ambitious projects within EDF.

The Opportunity…

Hinkley Point ‘C’ (HPC) is a vital part of the UK’s future energy strategy. As the first of the UK’s next generation of nuclear power stations, HPC is both of high profile and high complexity. Its delivery will be reliant not only on innovative engineering and construction but also on the strongest of Leadership qualities amongst its Senior Project Managers. The role is to provide leadership to ensure the effective delivery of the Civils Programme of HPC, whilst recognising and managing the impacts of the programme on the wider Project.

As our next Senior Project Manager you'll take charge of ensuring the seamless delivery of engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning activities throughout the entire contract or work package lifecycle, aligning meticulously with the overarching project schedule.

In this position, you will play a pivotal role in demonstrating high standards of safety, quality, and efficiency throughout the planning and execution phases, ensuring a comprehensive fulfilment of project requirements. Reporting directly to our Delivery Manager, you'll enhance your leadership skills by supporting a team in taking charge of the entire life cycle delivery of major contracts assigned to you.

Ready to lead and innovate? This is your opportunity to make a lasting impact on our projects and contribute to our success

Pay, benefits and culture…

Alongside a competitive which depends on your experience, we’re dedicated to offering flexible benefits that support our people across all aspects of their lives. This role will be based on site working at our Hinkley Point C building full time with possibility for flexible working 1 day a week at home. There may also be a requirement to attend other offices/stations on a business need basis.

We offer a market-leading company pension scheme, paid holidays and a range of flexible benefits, such as: a company incentive bonus plan, cycle to work scheme, discounts and employee pricing.


At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need. We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.



What you’ll be doing…

You will:

  • Drive the delivery of contract activities, ensuring they are safe, timely, and within budget, meeting business and technical requirements. Monitor progress against milestones, deadlines, and budget, providing key stakeholders with insightful reports.
  • Anticipate, manage, and resolve issues within your contract or package, identifying risks, facilitating resolutions, and updating the program budget.
  • Ensure the development and maintenance of schedules for the contract or package, aligning them with overall project schedules. Escalate discrepancies to the Project Controls Director.
  • Guarantee the delivery of Contractual Milestones and List of Deliverables (LOD) related to the scope of work.
  • Apply the principles of Earned Value Management (EVM) and champion Continuous Improvement principles.
  • Cultivate a culture of lessons learned and knowledge capture as part of our everyday business practices.
  • Interface with other programs to ensure a high-level view of the total project's progress and identify opportunities for adopting best practices.
  • Assure the fulfilment of contractual requirements within your assigned contract or package.
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with all members of the project team.

Who you are…

In this role, we’re looking for you to demonstrate a 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.

With this, your management of developing engineering design, contract and field execution strategies for project delivery, Multi-discipline EPCM projects, Procurement and management of complex contracts, Control of costs / risks will be paramount in this role. Other requirements for this role also include:

  • Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Leadership and its application in complex projects. This, in turn, should link with holding excellent communication and organisational skills, able to develop relationships and maintain effective networks.
  • Experience of successfully engaging groups of stakeholders.
  • Able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management and facilitation. Proficient in the use of estimating scheduling, programming and risk tools.
  • Experience of managing contractors, consultants and other advisors throughout large and complex construction projects, in a regulated environment. Including NEC and FIDIC contracts.

Previous experience of working within a MEH background and experience of working in construction within a nuclear setting would be desirable however, not essential. We’re looking for you to demonstrate your quality of delivery and have a “right first time” approach to your work.



Closing date: 7th May 2024

Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero.

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