Common Building Services (CBS) Operations Manager

Standards:

• Monitor and manage that project operations are undertaken in compliance with all relevant standards and legislation through appropriate formal procedures.
• Audit design output, coordination, and technical submissions, ensuring compliance with strategy, approach alignment and standards.
• Identify opportunities for design optimisation, efficiency, and sustainable delivery methods whilst still ensuring Dalkia are compliant with the necessary standards and specifications.
• Manage technical reviews, energisation strategies, and documentation to guarantee system compliance, integrity and performance.

Operational Procedures:

• Prepare and agree with the Procurement lead major material and master material procurement schedules. Identify and check that proposed procurement dates come in line with the appropriate programme dates to ensure that materials and equipment are available on site at the prescribed time.
• Monitor project deliverables and direct work sequencing to expedite project delivery in line with our works programme.
• Represent the business at meetings with customers, consultants, sub-contractors and other relevant organisations.
• Provide detailed work in progress reports for discussion and monitoring by Construction Director. Identify target shortfalls and discuss and carry out appropriate action to resolve any future risks or current issues.
• Ensure the works are Inspected and monitored to the required quality of the installed works in conjunction with the Nuclear Safety and Quality function.

Commercial:

• Monitor individual project commercial performance against targets through regular review of job cost reports and detailed work in progress reports.
• Assist in the preparation of the ongoing project account and final account. Ensure accounts are up to date as far as agreement of variations are concerned, monitor on at least a monthly basis to ensure variations are being agreed by others in a timely manner.
• Prepare, in conjunction with the Senior Quantity Surveyor, any sub-contract orders and the purchase of major material packages monitor any change orders and approve sub-contract payments.

Personnel:

• Communicate clearly and directly with other employees associated with the project, monitor performance productivity and quality as appropriate.
• Ensure alignment with other members of the SDT to create a highly effective management team for the CBS project.

Health and Safety:

• Ensure that company standards for health and safety associated with all project activities are maintained as identified in the company health and safety policy.
• Monitor all site health and safety inspections either by our in-house H&S Manager or external resource. Ensure that any recommendations following on from a site H&S site visit are implemented.
• Take personal responsibility for all project H&S issues ensure that when visiting site all paperwork associated with H&S issues such as toolbox talk registers, site risk assessments, plant checks etc., are being carried out and are up to date.

Minimum Qualifications/ Experience:

Knowledge

• Educated to Degree level (or equivalent) in Engineering/Construction discipline
• Chartered Engineer with relevant industry accreditation
• Educated to ONC level (or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• Track record of delivering projects in complex environments, from concept to handover, within a technically complex and dynamic environment, ideally within the Nuclear Energy sector or similar regulated environment.
• Have experience of working on heavily unionised sites and working alongside IR managers and Trade union representatives.
• Have experience in working with Qualified equipment products and services including supporting the EQ process.
• Have experience working alongside the QA team to ensure quality compliance including all records, audits and process.
• Understand nuclear safety culture and have experience working on projects where this forms the basis of the quality and Health & Safety agenda.

Additional Qualifications/ Experience:

• Able to demonstrate strong skills and experience in Operational Management, financial management, change management and facilitation.
• Proven successful experience in engaging multi-level stakeholders including contractors, consultants, and advisors.

Working Pattern of Attendance and Location(s):

• Minimum 36 hours per week
• Located as necessary to undertake the requirements of the role.

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.