Piping Project Director

Piping Project Director – Altrad – Hinkley Point C

Job Category:
Project Management / Controls

Contract Partner Company:
Altrad Services

Employing Company:
Altrad Services UK

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The role will be a senior member of the MEH Alliance team. Mechanical focused individual to drive progress in next phase. Deputy for Project Director to ensure Electrical and Mechanical alignment in working to common goals and substitution. The role is expected to represent the MEH Alliance position in discussions with the Delivery Partner, driving the Delivery Partner to prioritise support to MEH in terms of the provision of resources, expertise, and best practice.

Similarly, the role is expected to ensure that the Delivery partner position is represented and understood within the MEH Alliance.

• Overall delivery of the Piping scope (350km of pipe, 35,000 valves in 7,500 rooms) within the MEH Alliance, safely, meeting quality standards and working to the approved design.
• Leadership of the Piping team (100‑200 people) including the associated construction management role and workforce (1500+).
• Driving continuous improvement to meet and then beat the estimating norms and creating savings against the estimate.
• Developing the team so that it can improve from Unit 1 to 2 and consider how this knowledge and capability can transition to Sizewell for Units 3 and 4.
• Oversee the workforce planning, ensuring that there are the right numbers of the right skills at the right time, working closely with the partner companies to develop multiple resourcing channels.
• Represent the MEH Alliance position in discussions with Altrad and Altrad, driving them to prioritise support to MEH JV in terms of the provision of resources, expertise, and best practice (process, procedures, and technology).
• Ensure that the planned works are clearly represented with the MEH Programme or 16
  
  WLA, identifying key interfaces and required resource to deliver to the schedule, working with the Area management teams to achieve the optimum installation sequence. Work with the MEH Alliance planning community to develop a Programme, incremental improvement (P50 to P80 etc.)
• Act as the key link between Engineering/ Procurement and Construction for Piping scope. Take overall responsibility for the safe and defect‑free construction of these Works, and the KPI’s associated with them.
• Provide best practice and Learning from Experience into the MEH Alliance. Lead and foster a positive Nuclear Safety Culture.
• Act as the Senior Altrad employee on the project, providing leadership to the Altrad employees, disseminating any company communications and acting as a link to Altrad while ensuring that employees behave in a manner which prioritises MEH Alliance alignment, fostering a "one team" mentality and ensuring no silo working.
• Drive employee compliance with MEH and parent company processes; supporting compliance with MEH working arrangements, driving PDR completion, supporting managers in performance management issues involving Delivery Partner resource.
• Ensure that core values are understood and aligned with the MEH Alliance position and HPC Way.
• Lead and foster a positive Nuclear Safety Culture.
• Ensure that the planned construction works are clearly represented with the MEHA Programme, identifying key interfaces and required resource to deliver to the schedule.
• Deliver seamless EPC organisation within MEHA as part of MEH JV.

• Degree in relevant discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Relevant professional Accreditation (PM, Construction, Engineering).
• Can achieve security clearance (BPSS or higher).
• Proven track record in large scale projects (Multi £500m +) in the nuclear or similar regulated sector (Pharma, O&G etc), in a leadership roles.
• Significant experience in complex piping installation.
• Experienced in delivering and operating at a Senior Leadership Level.
• Experienced in working in a Joint Venture, Alliance environment or similar.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of…