Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick
Contract Manager
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick are seeking a Contracts Manager to join the Sizewell C Project. You’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.
Sizewell C will create a 3.2-gigawatt power station generating low-carbon electricity for at least 60 years. It will be built next to Sizewell B which began operating in 1995 and has so far avoided more than 76 million tonnes of carbon emissions.
This role will be hybrid with a minimum of 2 days at our Bristol Aztec West office.
What you'll be doing
This role provides commercial and governance support to the Contract Manager in the administration and delivery of NEC3 contracts for the MEH Alliance at Sizewell C. You will play a key role during the delivery phase, ensuring contractual documentation, cost records, compensation events and reporting processes are effectively managed and controlled in line with project governance.
Working closely with Supply Chain Managers and project teams, the role supports proactive contract management, supplier performance monitoring and dispute avoidance, helping to ensure commercial outcomes align with programme delivery objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer NEC3 contracts from contract award through to completion and close-out.
- Manage compensation events in accordance with NEC3 processes, including quotation assessment, benchmarking and negotiation.
- Develop and maintain cost baselines to support evaluation of supplier quotations and compensation event submissions.
- Undertake detailed cost analysis of supplier quotations, validating rates, quantities, scope and assumptions.
- Apply strong Quantity Surveying skills to assess cost impacts arising from change, variations and claims.
- Monitor supplier performance against contractual obligations including cost, quality, safety and programme.
- Manage cost forecasting, commitments and cashflow for allocated contracts.
- Identify, manage and escalate commercial and contractual risks appropriately.
- Maintain robust contract records, correspondence and governance documentation.
- Support dispute avoidance and resolution through proactive commercial management and negotiation.
- Ensure compliance with project governance, reporting and documentation requirements.
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Who we're looking for
Essential
Qualifications & Experience
- Strong commercial and contract management experience within major infrastructure, engineering or nuclear projects.
- Demonstrated experience administering NEC contracts and managing compensation events.
- Strong Quantity Surveying capability, including cost analysis, valuation and change management.
- Experience developing cost baselines and evaluating contractor quotations.
- Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Able to obtain a security clearance
Desirable
- Membership of RICS or an equivalent professional body.
- Experience working within regulated industries or major infrastructure programmes.
- Strong analytical, commercial negotiation and cost management skills.
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.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- 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.
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About Us
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.
We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
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