Contract Manager

About the role

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick are seeking a Contracts Manager to join the Sizewell C Project. You’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.

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.

This role will be hybrid with a minimum of 2 days at our Bristol Aztec West office.

This role provides commercial and governance support to the Contract Manager in the administration and delivery of NEC3 contracts for the MEH Alliance at Sizewell

C. You will play a key role during the delivery phase, ensuring contractual documentation, cost records, compensation events and reporting processes are effectively managed and controlled in line with project governance.

Working closely with Supply Chain Managers and project teams, the role supports proactive contract management, supplier performance monitoring and dispute avoidance, helping to ensure commercial outcomes align with programme delivery objectives.

• Administer NEC3 contracts from contract award through to completion and close‑out.
• Manage compensation events in accordance with NEC3 processes, including quotation assessment, benchmarking and negotiation.
• Develop and maintain cost baselines to support evaluation of supplier quotations and compensation event submissions.
• Undertake detailed cost analysis of supplier quotations, validating rates, quantities, scope and assumptions.
• Apply strong Quantity Surveying skills to assess cost impacts arising from change, variations and claims.
• Monitor supplier performance against contractual obligations including cost, quality, safety and programme.
• Manage cost forecasting, commitments and cash flow for allocated contracts.
• Identify, manage and elevate commercial and contractual risks appropriately.
• Maintain robust contract records, correspondence and governance documentation.
• Support dispute avoidance and resolution through proactive commercial management and negotiation.
• Ensure compliance with project governance, reporting and documentation requirements.

We seek a highly organized, analytical and collaborative professional who can deliver strong commercial outcomes within the infrastructure project environment.

• Strong commercial and contract management experience within major infrastructure, engineering or nuclear projects.
• Demonstrated experience administering NEC contracts and managing compensation events.
• Strong Quantity Surveying capability, including cost analysis, valuation and change management.
• Experience developing cost baselines and evaluating contractor quotations.
• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Able to obtain a security clearance.

• Membership of RICS or an equivalent professional body.
• Experience working within regulated industries or major infrastructure programmes.
• Strong analytical, commercial negotiation and cost management skills.

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.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits. 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.