Care & Maintenance Project Manager

About The Role

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group, delivering some of the UK’s most complex and high‑profile major projects across transport, energy and the built environment.

Sizewell C is committed to setting a new standard for leadership in the nuclear sector and in major UK infrastructure. The mission is to build for future generations—providing home‑grown energy, greater price stability, and abundant low‑carbon power. Aiming to lead the way in creating long‑lasting social value, showing how effective collaboration can benefit communities locally, regionally and across the country.

Through Sizewell C, we will provide secure, clean energy, strengthen the UK economy, and deliver meaningful societal benefits for decades to come. The project will create a 3.2‑gigawatt power station producing low‑carbon electricity for at least 60 years. It will sit alongside Sizewell B, which has been operating since 1995 and has already prevented more than 76 million tonnes of carbon emissions.

We are seeking a Care & Maintenance Project Manager to join our team on a permanent basis. You will be responsible for developing the Mechanical, Electrical & HVAC (MEHA) provision of Passive and Active Care & Maintenance (C&M) activities for all stored material and equipment within Orwell Park (Ipswich) and Vlissingen (Netherlands). In this role you will manage a team of MEHA counterparts in the development of all necessary processes, procedures, schedules of activities, resource assessments, and required SQEP capabilities.

You will interact with all major Stakeholders within the SZC project such as Programme Leads, Site Operations, Local Logistics Provider, and the MEHA Industrial Partners (IP’s) to ensure the MEHA provision takes cognisance of their constraints and that the provision of C&M fits with upstream and downstream activities. You will also ensure that the MEHA capability and bench strength is sufficient to deliver the requirements of C&M across the life of stored material and equipment.

Act as the MEHA point of contact at SZC Warehouse/Storage facility to co‑ordinate activities (open package inspections etc.) with the Local Logistics Provider, and be responsible for developing a clear, detailed plan of all activities required to stand up the MEHA provision of Care & Maintenance whilst being cognisant of wider related project milestones.

• Accountable for the development and implementation of the MEHA Care & Maintenance organisation along with all its underpinning organisational requirements, processes, procedures and tools.
• Work with MEHA IP’s to define available resource to enable the provision of C&M to be undertaken for all disciplines from hands‑on maintenance to office‑based quality and HSE management as an example.
• Obtain and manipulate all repeatable practices from Hinkley Point C for quick adoption and integration.
• Co‑ordinate MEHA documentation deliverables (work packs, LTQR, equipment and material transfer or ownerships etc) within SZC C&M Digital tools.
• Co‑ordination of all QA and H&S requirements for C&M ensuring all required processes and procedures that enable active and passive work to be undertaken in the warehouse are in place, tracked and recorded.
• Lead and develop a small but high‑performing team with autonomy, referencing back to senior leadership for guidance and support on critical matters.
• Communicate the C&M plan internally and to a wider audience to ensure overall alignment to the project schedule.
• Be a contributor to the overall output and related strategies of the MEHA team.
• Have adequate cross‑sector experience and communication skills to be able to influence key stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
• Operate effectively within a complex matrix organisation and in multidisciplinary working groups.

• Track record of delivering projects within a complex and dynamic environment whilst ensuring high levels of safety, security and environmental responsibility, ideally within the Nuclear Energy sector or similar regulated environment.
• Demonstrable strong leadership and management of staff and operatives.
• Demonstrate…