About The Role
Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as
Contract Lead - HVAC on the
Sizewell C Project and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you,
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. Our proposal is to build a new nuclear power station on the East Suffolk coast which will supply 6 million homes with low-carbon electricity.
This role will be hybrid with a minimum of 1-2 days per week at Aztec West, Bristol
What you'll be doing
- Contributing to procurement and contracting strategies to meet the overall SZC Project objectives.
- Supporting upfront contract development activities across technical, programme, legal and commercial disciplines.
- Support to the budget process and analysing the commercial requirements of a contract.
- Support to the Commercial Lead in ensuring all internal governance approval is in place.
- Managing contracts in accordance with the contract terms (predominantly NEC3 and FIDIC), SZC governance requirements and SZC Project objectives to achieve a successful close.
- Ensuring compatibility and alignment with other SZC Project contracts.
- Administration of commercial management tools including, but not limited
to, CEMAR and SAP.
- Responsibility and accountability for managing the close out of each contract and identifying and recording commercial lessons learnt.
- Deliver contracts in accordance with NNB governance requirements to meet NNB SZC Project and business objectives.
- Supervision of Supply Chain Contract Managers under their control.
- Internal and external stakeholder management and working within a multi-disciplinary team/teams.
- These accountabilities are not an exhaustive list of the responsibilities and activities that the job holder may be required to undertake
Who we're looking for
- Educated to degree level ideally in a technical / engineering subject
- Member of RICS/ICE/CICES/IOB or equivalent professional body.
- Proven ability of working within a complex major project/programme environment in both procurement and post-procurement phases.
- Evidence of successfully undertaking administering of complex contracts.
- Effective Management and Leadership skills, with clear knowledge of best practice contract methodologies in the UK environment.
- Honed commercial skills and demonstrable ability to make sound decisions on complex matters (considering technical and commercial topics) of high financial value.
- Good understanding of procurement, contract performance measurement, risk management and change and claim management.
- Experience working in a dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders.
- Experience of standard forms of contract (NEC and FIDIC) within the power/construction industry on complex major projects/programmes.
- Able to obtain a security clearance.
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…
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.
