Area Engineering Manager (BoP)

Job Description

Area Engineering Manager (BoP)

Full-Time, Contractual location of Gloucester Business Park & Aztec West (Bristol), 3-4 days a week in office.  

Are you at your best when working outside your comfort zone, driving high-profile topics while using humility to recognise your limitations, engaging others to achieve effective resolution? Are you energised by applying your curiosity to seek out and drive challenging topics? Do you thrive in an environment where you will need to bring clarity and strategic awareness to break through complexity and uncertainty? Do you enjoy leading others to achieve great results? Above all, are you passionate about helping Britain achieve Net Zero?

If so, we want you to join us as our next Area Engineering Manager within Engineering Delivery, with a focus on Balance of Plant (BoP) area, on one of the most exciting and ambitious projects around as we continue to lead the rebirth of nuclear in the UK.

The Opportunity

At Hinkley Point C (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. This is a once-in-a-lifetime project, and we’re looking for you to be our next Area Engineering Manager to play a key role in shaping its success.

In this role, you will lead major technical initiatives focussing on the Balance of Plant area of HPC. Your role will encompass a diverse range of complex technical challenges, with a special emphasis on providing strategic and delivery leadership in multi-disciplinary issues for HPC. 

Collaboration is at the heart of this role. You and your team will therefore also be working closely with our Nuclear Services teams, our French business units, Delivery programmes and the Commissioning and Pre-operations teams to prepare for future phases of the project, driving success and innovation. Your team’s remit consists of delivering scope in the BOP area which is key to delivering the future nuclear power generation for Net Zero.

Reporting to the CI-BoP Area Engineering Branch Manager, you’ll play a key role in overseeing complex, technical challenges, providing guidance and support to ensure effective solutions. If you’re looking for an opportunity to contribute your expertise in a collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Pay, benefits and cultures

Alongside a salary range of £80,000 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans. 

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated. 

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, 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. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you’ll be doing

As the Area Engineering Manager (BoP), you will establish strategic technical leadership of high-profile topics across the CI-BoP Area within Engineering Delivery for HPC, focusing on best for project outcomes, driving and making decisions focused on Safety, Quality, Time and Cost. You will be involved in a highly diverse array of complex technical topics but will have a particular focus on strategic and delivery leadership for the BoP area topics working with teams across the project to deliver success.  

Key responsibilities will include:

• Driving and managing topic delivery to meet the needs of the HPC schedule and budget, including strategic/commercial management and budget control.
• Developing (where necessary) and delivering your multi-year topic strategies, ensuring these evolve to address emergent issues, to meet HPC project aims.
• Advocating for pragmatic best for project decision making, aligned with HPC project aims and ensuring technical integrity is maintained. This will involve producing and driving mitigation plans for risks and issues. There will also be a strong focus on optioneering and governance decisions, ensuring these are fit for purpose and made at the right level.
• Developing and maintaining positive and productive relationships with the delivery programme, construction teams on HPC site, engineering teams within the responsible designer organisation in France and the UK and the technical organisations based in the UK
• Work with the programmes and the technical teams on prioritisation and emerging scope topics, maximising the efficiency and value of delivery. 
• Managing risks for the BOP area, proactively identifying potential risks and putting in place mitigation plans to bring issues back under control.
• Producing high-quality streamlined reporting materials, acting as a focal point for technical and business reporting for your engineering topics. 
• Running decision making, governance and configuration committees, making best for project decisions.
• Line management of a small team of engineers including recruitment, training, development and performance management. Ensuring the necessary skills and competencies are present within the team and providing appropriate training when necessary. 

Who you are

To be successful in this role, we’re looking for you to bring a wealth of knowledge ideally with an engineering degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant field. Equally important are your leadership skills where we’re looking for you to utilise your ability to unite diverse stakeholders across multiple locations, fostering collaboration to drive technical change effectively. 

Additional requirements for this role include:
 

• Ability to lead complex technical/commercial change with multiple stakeholders, managing multi-million-pound budgets with a strong technical delivery focus.
• Strong Experience of engineering across different disciplines (e.g. mechanical, fault studies, hazards, safety case, inspection, materials) to interpret detailed technical information, summarise it, and apply it across your topics and across Engineering Delivery. Expert level knowledge is not expected in these areas how you will be expected to interact with experts regularly.
• A desire to simplify and clarify and push for better strategic and business outcomes. 
• Ability to quickly switch from detailed technical information to strategic level information and communicate at all levels, up to and including executive level within a multi-cultural environment. 
• Enthusiasm to coach and develop others – taking leadership approach 
• Broad experience in the nuclear industry including knowledge of nuclear safety cases and the regulatory environment.
• Fluent English is essential. Given your stakeholders the ability to communicate in French (or a willingness to learn) would be beneficial however, not essential.

If you’re interested in embarking in this role where your blend of technical & problem-solving abilities, leaderships skills and stakeholder management are key to success, we want to see your application! 

Applications for this role close: Sunday 13th April

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

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