Civils Work Alliance Project Controls Engineer - Sizewell C - London based

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
SZC is ultimately owned by two shareholders, EDF and HMG. The shareholders hold their investments in SZC through NNB Holdings Company (SZC) Limited. The two shareholders’ shareholdings will change over the current shareholding arrangements.
The shareholders will fund SZC until the Financial Close through equity per the approved schedule and budget. SZC’s business is to design, finance, construct, commission, operate, maintain, and eventually decommission the nuclear power plant and related infrastructure (including activities relating to hydrogen, direct air capture and desalination) at Sizewell C in Suffolk. The principal objectives of the current development phase of the SZC project are to agree and implement the Capital Raise Plan, including completing an equity and debt raise, agree the core supply chain contracts, and obtain the regulatory permits and licences required for the construction phase of the Project (including the core environmental permits and nuclear site licence).
Before the government investment decision, SZC operated as part of EDF in the Nuclear Development business unit and was staffed by EDF colleagues and independent contractors now transferring to direct employment at SZC. It is setting itself up as an organisation capable of delivering a new nuclear power plant, from investment cases and funding to construction, commissioning, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.
The SZC construction programme has a technical and commercial business case predicated on the technical replication of Hinkley Point C. EDF, with its established nuclear business footprint in the UK, will be an essential supplier of nuclear capability for the SZC Programme.
Key stakeholders are the UK Government, relevant Government departments and agencies, including Treasury BEIS and EDF, Financial investors and institutions, Regulators, Alliance partners, and local communities.
What you’ll be doing
Sizewell C (SZC) is vital to the UK’s future energy strategy. As the second of the UK’s next generation of nuclear power stations, SZC is both high profile and highly complex.
Its delivery will rely not only on innovative engineering and construction but also on the most vital Leadership qualities among its senior leadership team. The role is to provide leadership to the project controls across the CWA to ensure the effective delivery of the entire Civils Programme of SZC while recognising and influencing the programme’s impacts on the more comprehensive Project.
The Project Controls Engineer’s role is to deliver the strategy for project controls within the agreed constraints, including controls for programme, productivity and time and cost integrated controls in the form of Earned Value Management. This post will ensure that control is in accordance with all safety, quality, time, and cost parameters to meet the project’s needs. The Project Controls Engineer reports to the Project Controls Leader who forms part of the PMO.

Principle accountabilities, activities, and decisions

• Accountable for managing project controls aspects for the Civils Work Alliance on the SZC project.
• Supports the CWA’s PMO Leadership Team.
• Work collaboratively for exceptional team performance to ensure the teams, roles, skills and behaviour are aligned with the business objectives and project requirements.
• Liaison in a matrix structure with the Sectional teams to implement and manage project controls systems and processes.

Programme controls

• Participate in managing project controls, including integrated programme and productivity management.
• Maintains the Civils Work Programme work breakdown structure (WBS), cost breakdown structure (CBS), organisation breakdown structure (OBS) and all other associated coding structures that facilitate project segmentation, management, and reporting.
• Leads the development of the earned value management (EVM) and reporting system for all project cost and time aspects and provides constructive recommendations to mitigate deficiencies and influence project performance and positive outcomes.
• Implement and maintain the Project Controls Management plan.
• Leads the development of all types of progress and performance reports including for report definitions, templates, metrics, trends, forecast and recommendations.
• Assist with establishing and maintaining systems for reporting and forecasting.

Project management systems and techniques

• Manage the integrated project controls systems and software for the CWA, e.g. Primavera P6, PRISM, Unifier and similar.
• Assist and liaison with other relevant functions within the CWA in identifying, sourcing, implementing, and managing the integrated project controls systems and software on the CWA.
• Liaison with the IT & Digital and IM functions for alignment and integration with other project management systems in the CWA project.

Who we’re looking for

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Experience in project controls on complex and mega infrastructure projects and programmes of works working for leading international tier 1 contractors.
• Relevant undergraduate degree.
• Hands on experience running contract, cost and EVM systems e.g., PRISM, Unifier and InEight.
  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.

• 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