Job Description
The salary for this role is £91,173 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). Onsite working is expected for 3 days each week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
This role can be based at any of the following sites: Culham, Oxfordshire.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Head of Infrastructure and Development, you will play a pivotal role in the strategic planning, delivery, and optimisation of facilities management and infrastructure services across the UKAEA estate. The role places a strong emphasis on ensuring the resilience, compliance, and performance of the built environment, including hard FM service delivery, statutory maintenance, lifecycle asset management, and sustainability initiatives. It also oversees a portfolio of refurbishment and infrastructure improvement projects that support operational continuity and scientific mission delivery. While the role includes responsibility for capital projects, the primary focus is on maintaining and enhancing existing estate assets, systems, and services to ensure a safe, functional, and cost-effective environment that aligns with UKAEA’s mission, values, and public value concepts.
The role will manage the team of construction project managers working across the business matrix as required to ensure the portfolio of construction projects and programmes are delivered to meet business requirements. The role involves having the ability and diversity of knowledge to be capable of running many technical multi-faceted major projects simultaneously.
Additional Responsibilities:
* Overseeing and continuously improving the delivery of all hard FM services, including compliance-led PPM regimes, statutory testing, reactive response, and building fabric maintenance.
* Providing guidance for capital works, refurbishments, and minor works programmes, ensuring projects are delivered in line with RIBA stages, UKAEA governance, and NEC4 contracts.
* Managing a portfolio of FM and construction projects with budget responsibilities in the region of £100 million, ensuring financial control, risk mitigation, and lifecycle value for money.
* Embed a robust performance culture using KPIs, SLAs, and governance tools to monitor in-house and contractor performance, aligned with CMMS and CEMAR reporting.
* Guiding UKAEA’s response to Government estate policy, environmental legislation, and decarbonisation targets including infrastructure contributions to Net Zero strategies.
* Guiding and motivating a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, surveyors, project managers and contract officers to deliver excellence in facilities operations and development.
Qualifications
Essential Requirements:
* Chartered membership of a professional body (e.g., IWFM, CIOB, CIBSE, RICS).
* Accredited in NEC4 contract management and experienced in administering complex capital and FM contracts.
* Proven ability to manage operational risk, deliver strategic programmes, and engage stakeholders at executive level.
* Knowledge of CDM Regulations, Building Safety Act 2022, and environmental standards relevant to the public sector estate.
Desirable Requirements:
* Demonstrable experience managing large-scale facilities and infrastructure portfolios, ideally in high-security or science/research-led environments.
* Working knowledge of CMMS (e.g., Maximo), CEMAR, and electronic document control systems, such as Asite. Digital twin solutions such as Sensat.
* Experience integrating FM delivery with sustainability programmes, BMS systems, and performance reporting.
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here
UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We are under-represented from some groups and so want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email talent@ukaea.uk if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis, for example, changes to the way we interview or share information.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.