Project Lead (Sizewell C)

Safety, Quality & Environment

• Ensure all WJ works comply with SZC site rules, nuclear safety culture expectations, CDM duties and WJ's SHEQ requirements.
• Ensure environmental compliance across abstraction, discharge, sampling and monitoring activities, including permit and consent conditions.
• Lead incident prevention, investigation and learning across the SZC portfolio.
• Ensure quality records, inspection & test plans, and handover documentation meet nuclear-grade expectations.

Commercial Management (Shared Accountability):

• Share commercial accountability for the SZC account with the Managing Quantity Surveyor (commercial control) and the Head of Business Development (pipeline growth).
• Support the MQS and project QS in contract administration under NEC forms, including early warnings, compensation events, programme submissions and change control across all tiers.
• Ensure accurate cost and value reporting, forecasting and cash recovery across the SZC contracts.
• Identify, protect and pursue WJ's commercial entitlement while maintaining collaborative client relationships.

Pipeline Growth & Work Winning:

• Work with the Head of Business Development and Sales team to convert the £40M+ SZC opportunity pipeline, providing delivery input to bids, pricing and negotiations.
• Identify emerging scopes and early opportunities on site, positioning WJ ahead of formal procurement.
• Support pre-qualification, tender submissions and client presentations for new SZC packages.

Reporting & Governance:

• Produce regular account reports for the Operations Manager and Senior Leadership Team covering safety, programme, commercial performance, risks and pipeline.
• Ensure all SZC activity aligns with WJ's IMS, QMS and SHEQ requirements and with SZC/CWA governance and assurance processes.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Degree in civil engineering, construction management or a related discipline, or equivalent experience at senior project management level.
• Proven track record as a Senior Project Manager delivering complex works on major infrastructure programmes (e.g. nuclear new-build, Hinkley Point C, HS2, Thames Tideway or similar).
• Nuclear sector experience, including working within nuclear safety culture on new-build or licensed sites.
• Strong experience managing works under NEC3/4 contracts, including operating at multiple contractor tiers.
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams, including Project Managers, site delivery teams and subcontractors.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with credibility from Project Director to Supervisor level in client, alliance and subcontractor organisations.
• Strong commercial acumen, including cost/value awareness, change control and forecasting.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain security clearance for the SZC site (e.g. BPSS/SC).
• SMSTS, CSCS and full UK Driving Licence.

Desirable:

• Technical knowledge of dewatering, groundwater control, water treatment, abstraction wells, pumping tests or instrumentation & monitoring.
• Experience of temporary works management (e.g. as TWC) and design management processes.
• Experience working within alliance/collaborative delivery models such as the Civil Works Alliance.
• Chartered or working towards chartership with a relevant institution (e.g. ICE, APM, CIOB).

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.