Project Manager

Job Description for Project Manager:

NNL is where your project management helps deliver our purpose. As part of our Project Management Authority, you’ll play a critical role in managing projects that deliver nuclear science to benefit society. Your project management skills and attention to detail will enable industry-leading scientists, engineers and analysts to work together to deliver unique projects using cutting edge technology. It’s a challenging role but it’s an opportunity to grow, adapt and develop new skills in a fast-moving area.

The role is to provide Senior Project Management representation on complex projects (typically Class 3 & 4 projects) to ensuresafe and successful delivery; line management of the regional Project Management personnel, and responsibility for leading the implementation / intergration of PMA organisational functional initiatives and objectives.

Main Responsibilities for Project Manager:

• Provision of direction and leadership to ‘senior’ regional SPM team on matters relating to PMA operational initiatives, goals and NNL performance targets, including responsibility for ensuring adherence to PMA systems & processes, e.g. the project delivery framework. 
• Provision of senior leadership on complex programmes / projects to ensure that they are delivered in a safe manner to the specified functional criteria, goals, and objectives compliant with all relevant Client, NNL, EHSS&Q, regulatory and legal assurance requirements.
• Ensuring optimal performance of local offices (within region) in terms of utilisation & billability of personnel, training & development, and health & welfare of staff, etc., and provision of regular management information reports for senior level periodic PMA reviews.
• Ensuring that financial performance is managed to achieve maximum revenue and profitability of the project (supported by the Project Controls function).
• Support bid development, including designated authority for approval of delivery proposals, and allocation of resources, prior to works moving into the delivery phase.

Essential Criteria for Project Manager:

• Project Management professional qualification (e.g. APMP, Diploma APM, IPMA Level D). 
• Experience in a Project / Programme Management capacity.  
• Demonstrable experience of successfully leading and delivering medium-large scale / complex projects, in a Senior Project or Programme Management capacity.   
• Demonstrable experience of change management and implementing this process in a complex programme. 
• Demonstrable experience of Risk Management and implementing relevant industry best practise in a complex programme environment.
• Demonstrable knowledge of project delivery processes; life cycle management methodologies, and value adding tools, processes, and practices.
• Ability to obtain SC level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment, financial and criminal record checks plus 5 years’ worth of UK residency).

Desirable Criteria for Project Manager:

• Experience of delivering a range of projects in a nuclear environment, ideally including technical, infrastructure, and capital projects, including installations; commissioning, and management of safety case and/or regulatory requirements. 
• Experience of delivering projects under different contracting models, e.g. NEC, JCT, etc.
• Demonstrable experience of team leadership / mentoring / coaching.
• Strong understanding of typical project delivery procedures, tools protocols and systems within a nuclear environment or equivalent regulated industry.

NNL is an incredible place to work A place where people do things that have never been done before A place where people push boundaries to further themselves, the business, and society as a whole.

This is a place where personal and professional opportunities are limitless. If you want to change the world, if you want to tackle climate change, if you want to help advance medical science, if you want to help put things in space, if you want to answer the big questions, if you want to work with extraordinary materials, if you want to meet great people, learn new skills, challenge yourself, work flexibly, and build a long successful career with the power to make a real impact… you can do it all here.

NNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity (ED&I) where NNL aims to be an inclusive workplace that attracts diverse talent through transparent and equal policies and procedures. We want you and the diverse mix of people that we employ, customers that we service, and stakeholders that we influence to feel valued. We encourage a workplace culture where everyone can thrive with a sense of belonging.

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