If you are looking for a career shaping the UK’s long-term commitment to nuclear energy generation and waste management, then consider joining the project controls team at Nuclear Waste Services.
This is a unique opportunity to work at the cutting edge of applied nuclear science, delivering a multidisciplinary work programme to ensure the safety of radioactive waste at the UK’s existing disposal facility, the Low Level Waste Repository site, and the UK’s proposed Geological Disposal Facility.
The team.
You will be joining a team of like minded professionals with a wide range of backgrounds: cost control, risk management and estimating.
The team are responsible for maintaining the P3M controls within the Enterprise Portfolio Management Office. They also manage and engage with a mix of line and matrixed teams to deliver the provision of an integrated controls service (Cost, Planning, Risk and Estimating) for the organisation.
In the Project Controls team you will have the opportunity to work across the disciplines and technical work areas and also work with colleagues across the wider business. Due to the longevity of the disposal programme, working in the Project Controls team will provide a varied, evolving and long-term career.
What might you be doing on a daily basis?
- Forecasting the demands and appropriately engaging the Enterprise PMO (EPMO) resources to support the delivery of Project Controls.
- Managing the process to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of data communicated and reported to all Stakeholders.
- Undertaking checking and approval of all cost estimates, schedules and reports prior to issue.
- Resolving any issues as appropriate, and if necessary, escalate through the appropriate Management structure.
- Maintaining you own and team compliance with approved NWS Procedures and Project Controls systems.
- Active contribution from self and encourage team for continuous improvement of the functional quality and performance of Project Controls.
- Interfacing and maintaining relationships with Internal Stakeholders.
- Demonstrating behaviours that allow a positive challenging attitude and the capacity to learn continually, encourage, motivate, develop and support team.
- Good management, collaboration, communication and team working skills by holding self and others to account.
- Utilising technical expertise from controls discipline leads (e.g. Senior Planning Engineer, Senior Cost Engineer).
- Mentoring and coaching team members from both the Project Controls profession and other professions.
- Ensuring regular communications through team to inform key messages from Project Controls Profession – capability and delivery.
- Significant experience of leading Project Controls for a complex programme of work
- Proven experience of helping to establish and implement Project Controls in a complex regulated environment, managing critical interfaces and dependencies.
- Project Management or Controls certificate or equivalent experience (APM Project Planning & Control, P3M3, MSP, Prince2).
- Experience of setting policy and process for Project Controls for a business unit.
- Experience using Project Controls systems and tools.
- Excellent communicator - able to build strong working relationships and work collaboratively with wider stakeholders across all areas and levels of the organisation
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and generate complex data with the skills to be able to communicate clearly to multiple stakeholders and different levels
- Experience in leadership and managing teams of project professionals
- You will have experience in developing others and leading to drive improvements in understanding, skills and data integrity
- Experience of Earned Value Management processes in a leadership position
- Public sector experience, particularly of working within a high value programme forming part of a • Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP)/Major Projects Review Group (MPRG) programme in UK government, highly desirable.
- Scheduling and P6 certifications
- On appointment to NWS you will receive 25.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and you can accrue up to 13 extra days leave
- Rewarding performance (annual bonus scheme)
- We offer a generous pension scheme through CNNP
- Learning and development support
- Payment of relevant annual professional subscriptions
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial advice assistance
- Flexible working
- Extended family-friendly policies
- Cycle to work scheme
- We welcome flexible and agile working practices
- Flexible working requests can be submitted from day 1 of employment