About The Role
Be part of this ‘once in a generation’ project that will deliver clean energy to 6 million homes for the next 60 years. Sizewell C will see the creation of a 3.2 Gigawatt nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast to provide reliable load low-carbon electricity.
The Civil Works Alliance is an extended delivery enterprise involving Sizewell C and three international construction companies: Balfour Beatty, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke.
We are more than just an alliance, we are bringing together a single delivery organisation with years of learning and experience from other major complex infrastructure programmes worldwide.
What you'll be doing
The Sizewell C (SZC) project requires a Design Coodinator to work within the Enabling Works portion of the Civil Works Alliance (CWA), to coordinate design activities to support the Design Manager in the review and acceptance of engineering design deliverables, ensuring compliance with governing Client and regulatory requirements, a sustained focus on construction feasibility and the acceptable transfer of risk between the Designer and Contractor.
The role requires ensuring the design management procedure is correctly implemented, ensuring this is understood and correctly applied by the project team, and helping to effectively identify, coordinate and resolve design issues and interfaces, including package-specific temporary and permanent work design interfaces alongside complex package interface requirements, as associated with a major, multi-disciplinary infrastructure project.
The project team comprises the Client, members of the wider CWA, the Client’s Designer, internal and external temporary work designer(s) and sub-contractors.
Support the Design Manager in and/or undertake the following activities :
- Work with the project team to correctly implement and uphold the design management procedure and assure the completeness of design deliverables, including satisfaction of both construction and decommissioning-stage requirements.
- Coordinate designs and other design deliverables compliant with Client requirements and standards. Manage the Design phase of the project from pre-construction through works package (TOC) submission, through the gated design lifecycle to acceptance of design for construction. Support design readiness reviews and final gate reviews, ensuring timely and appropriate sign-off, identifying risks and opportunities in design and highlight any outstanding open points to be resolved.
- Ensuring that the designs have been subject to Independent Design Review where identified as required.
- Ensuring that designs have been subject to Inter-Disciplinary Checking and draft the minutes of the proceedings.
- Coordinate the involvement of stakeholders and construction input during design review meetings, understand their terms of reference to avoid preferential engineering and identify this to the Design Manager.
- Coordinate the appropriate action and response to any reviewer comments.
- Maintain, manage and update the Design Submissions & Approvals register.
- Support the interface management between project stakeholders, contractors, consultants, and construction teams to maintain alignment and clear communication.
- Ensure the allocation of design accountability and responsibility between the Designer and Contractor is correctly upheld and observed by parties contributing at the design stage.
- Engage the project team in reviewing and approving all SZC geotechnical design deliverables, ensuring interface requirements are understood and compatibly addressed within design outputs, satisfying construction sequence requirements and constructability.
- Coordinate Design Start Up meetings with the design consultants/subcontractors.
- Attend regular Design Progress Review meetings with Designer and Client and produce and issue minutes of the meetings.
- Coordinate and contribute to design interface meetings, reporting on the resolution of interfaces relative to programme priorities.
- Maintain, with the information management Team, robust document control of all technical documentation and information.
Who we're looking for
- Proven experience in coordinating the design process on projects with an civil, structural and tunnel works, with an emphasis on technical coordination and management for construction.
- Construction or technical assurance role involving engagement with stakeholders on design, including interfacing designers, package leads and subcontractor designers.
- Experience coordinating/running IDR/IDCs, meetings, workshops, and presentations.
- Ability to manage multiple interfaces and contribute to team performance.
- Knowledge of health & safety legislation and CDM 2015 Regulations
- Knowledge of project lifecycles, governance, and risk management.
- Effective communicator, both listening to others and explaining own considerations to seek agreement on what is best for project.
- Positive approach to teamwork and collaboration, demonstrate willingness and proactiveness with the rest of the project team, including the client and key stakeholders.
- Ability to produce sketches to support proposals and scope document.
- Ability to use AutoCAD software or similar, to be autonomous without necessarily the need for a Draftsman.
- Confident with usual Office suite and comfortable with Advanced Excel Formulas.
- Use of 3D and 4D modelling software for industrial applications.
- Design review process, model management and BIM clash detection.
- Implement the project Design Management Plan, BIM Execution Plan and other associated documents.
- Experience of working collaboratively in a contractor environment.
- Proficiency in IT and numeracy.
- Good communication and ability to form effective relationships with the project team, supply chain partners and clients under time pressure.
- Experience of delivering high-quality products to tight deadlines.
- An existing member or proactively working towards technical membership or professional qualification.
- Valid CSCS card.
Qualifications & Experience
- Engineering-based degree and professionally qualified or working towards professional qualification.
- Major Project Construction industry experience with experience of design production and/or coordination for civil, structural and tunnelling works in a contractor-led environment.
- Geotechnical / Foundation Works experience is a plus.
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. 42 hours per week.
- 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’s Major Projects business is delivering some of the UK’s most complex and iconic infrastructure projects including HS2, the new high-speed railway and the first nuclear power station in a generation, Hinkley Point C. Using the latest technology, we’re driving productivity and creating a lasting legacy by delivering sustainable solutions that strengthen communities.
From consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. We have the proven expertise to deliver large-scale projects safely and successfully.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at:
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