Head of Projects

RESPONSIBILITIES

Role Purpose

To provide leadership in the delivery of a complex, high-value infrastructure project forming part of our clients Infrastructure programme. The role purpose is built around three key pillars: Govern, Assure, and Enable. The HoP will work collaboratively with a partner-led delivery organisation, maintaining regulatory integrity, strategic alignment, and performance oversight across all stages of the EPCC lifecycle. The HoP is also responsible for establishing and leading a cross-functional client management team to drive delivery and ensure integrated decision-making

Role Description

Govern – Set Direction, Maintain Control, Ensure Alignment

· Leads the establishment of, and ongoing compliance with, the Major Infrastructure Project approach on the assigned project.

· Defines clear escalation paths, and decision-making structures within the Client team.

· Where applicable, align with site licence conditions, safety cases, and regulatory requirements (ONR, EA, etc), or ensure close alignment with any licensed site that has a physical proximity to the assigned project. Align project plans to site wide master plan and flex to meet the requirements of the site wide programme.

· Maintain overall accountability for the project outcomes, holding the delivery organisation to account through the agreed project and programme governance arrangements.

· Represent the business case, ensuring changes to requirements are assessed for cost, schedule, and contingency impacts and approved with facility owners.

· Chair or represent the client at governance forums and boards; intervene through stage-gate reviews at major regulatory or delivery hold points. Ensure that once requirements are approved at governance gate, any change is formally controlled in line with the clients' change management process. Prevent unvalidated scope additions through proactive management of stakeholder demands and clear documentation of requirement baselines.

· Accountable for the project level risk management approach, in line with the protocols defined by the programme management team, and via the Project Controls team established for the assigned project.

· Align project strategy, key milestones, and business outcomes, ensuring resource use and delivery decisions are consistent with long-term asset value and nuclear safety.

· Single point of accountability for the ownership, quality, veracity, of performance data and reporting in line with the agreed reporting cadence and infrastructure DBU requirement.

· Working closely with the delivery partners, define and manage the content of project specific task orders.

· Support the Programme Delivery Manager in the execution of the management task order for the corresponding partners. Note: The Programme Delivery Manager will assume the role of Service Manager/Project Manager at the management task order level.

· Working closely with the Programme Delivery Manager, review and approve partner candidates proposed for projects via the PAAF process.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams of multi-disciplined professionals. Demonstrable experience of improving major project delivery.
• SC security cleared or clearable.

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