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Civil and Layout Discipline Manager
Aztec West with flexibility of working from home, minimum 3 days a week in the office.
Are you a qualified engineer? Do you have knowledge of EPR design and engineering processes? Are you looking to develop your expertise in the exciting and challenging environment of new nuclear build?
If so, join us as a Civil and Layout Discipline Manager and you’ll join one of the most exciting and ambitious projects within EDF, as we continue to lead the rebirth of nuclear in the UK.
The Opportunity...
EDF EPR Engineering UK (EPR-E) established in 2023, is responsible for delivering the design for a number of NI buildings, systems and equipment contracts for the Hinkley Point C EPR Project through an integrated team, support to HPC construction and commissioning activities, and preparing design replication feasibility and engineering activities for the Sizewell C Project. Therefore, a Technical Directorate is being created, responsible for the engineering disciplines and technical expertise required to deliver the different engineering projects through integrated teams in EPR-E.
At HPC we are building two new nuclear reactors, the first in a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK providing low carbon electricity for around six million homes.
For the SZC Project, work on the replication strategy and some early design studies are already underway and being delivered and managed from both France and UK.
The Civil Works and Layout Discipline Manager is a senior leadership position within EDF EPR Engineering UK (EPR-E) reporting functionally and operationally to the EPR-E Head of Disciplines.
As a Civil Works and Layout Discipline Manager, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and providing qualified resources to deliver project activities managed within EPR-E on Civil Works, Layout and related Construction.
Pay, benefits and culture…
Alongside a salary from £85,000 to £95.000, we offer a competitive benefits package, including a company pension scheme, a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle, and the opportunity to earn bonus.
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…
- Quality of the design activities carried out across their disciplines within project integrated teams (adherence to Edvance engineering manual, standards, processes, tools and methods).
- Providing the necessary technical expertise to support the project integrated teams.
- Ensuring consistency within the complete discipline across all products, projects and phases of projects.
- Ensuring appropriate local improvement actions are in place to address under-performance and under-utilisation.
- Ensuring that Lessons Learned from previous EPR projects are integrated into the scope of EPR-E.
- Ensuring that the workload across relevant disciplines embedded in EPR-E is consistent with WFP (Work Force Planning).
- Ensuring engineers are SQEP in their discipline and organise the training necessary to bring engineers to the required level and build a high performing team.
- Managing the EPR-E GPEC (Resources and competences) and recruitment of both mother company staff and partners by working with the Head of Integrated Teams, and their delegates, to establish recruitment requirements.
- Taking the overall lead to ensure that the appropriate level of pastoral care is implemented in the business through a healthy line management structure and ensure effective cross-mentoring of staff is in place.
- Carrying out annual appraisals with input and feedback on performance of project work, work winning and operations; ensuring that objectives set are stretching performance, development objectives and incorporating discipline and delivery roles.
- Ensuring smooth inductions for all new staff members for their discipline.
- Ensuring a strong link with EDVANCE and CNEPE entities.
- Managing the relationship with all internal and external stakeholders pertaining to the activities of the relevant disciplines.
Who you are…
Your background may include some of the following:
- Bachelor’s degree engineering or higher education.
- Knowledge of EPR design and engineering processes.
- Team management experience in nuclear engineering and new nuclear build projects.
- Subject matter expert on the technical scope of Civil Works and Layout.
- Excellent leadership skills of large teams in complex environments
- Ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero.
For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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