Job Description
About the Opportunity:
NRL is recruiting for a Project Manager to support a major client.
Working on one of the UK’s flagship new developments, you’ll build core knowledge and capability within the New industry. Joining a newly established Business Unit, this role offers the opportunity to contribute during a period of innovation and change, with scope for your input and impact to be recognised.
The Civil Works Programme consists of multiple projects delivered over a 10-year period, with delivery responsibility shared across a number of accountable participants.
What You’ll Be Doing:
As a Project Manager, you’ll provide programme-level oversight across your allocated scope, ensuring engineering, design, and procurement activities are effectively coordinated and delivered in line with project requirements.
Key responsibilities will include:
* Maintaining a global overview of nuclear plant Systems, Structures and Components (SSCs) within your programme.
* Ensuring the timely delivery of engineering studies by the Responsible Designer or key contractors in line with regulatory requirements.
* Supporting the development of post-FID contract packages, including terms and conditions, contractual appendices, and technical specifications.
* Driving the incorporation of site-specific design changes into programme design deliverables.
* Managing internal and external interfaces across contracts, systems, and programme scopes.
* Engaging early with stakeholders and suppliers to identify obsolescence risks and wider risks to replication.
* Managing the technical aspects of procurement activities for assigned contracts.
* Embedding lessons learned and knowledge capture as standard practice.
What You’ll Need:
* Degree and Chartered status in Project Management, Construction, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline.
* Strong understanding of project management principles, with experience managing construction activities.
* Proven experience delivering major projects from concept through to handover within complex environments.
* Demonstrated success coordinating multi-disciplinary design and procurement teams.
* Engineering background (mechanical, electrical, process, systems, or civil) within large industrial plant environments.
* Experience managing complex contracts, including cost, risk, schedule, and change control using Earned Value techniques.
* Experience supporting the close-out of commercial claims and associated negotiations.
Benefits:
* Competitive salary and benefits package to attract and retain top talent.
* Free single medical cover and digital GP services.
* Family-friendly benefits, including enhanced parental leave pay.
* Free membership of employee assistance and parental programs.
* Reimbursement for relevant professional development and memberships.
* Opportunities to engage with the Collectively program, including matched-funding, paid volunteering time, and charitable donations.
Location:
* Leiston, Suffolk
* 4 days per week on site
* 1 day working from home