Senior Project Manager

Position: Senior Project Manager

Location: Warrington

Reference: TS020

Travel: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

Arrangement: Staffed

BPSS clearance required at basic level. Prior clearance will not be transferrable.

This role provides coordination, oversight, and project delivery support across engineering work streams that underpin the SMR programme. This includes activities such as:

• Requirements development
• Interface management
• Owner’s Engineering review cycles
• Design assurance and verification
• Quality and technical documentation management

The Project Manager will play a key supporting role in a complex, multidisciplinary environment, ensuring effective communication, structured delivery, and efficient management of engineering tasks delegated by the Senior Project Manager.

This is a vital role in a First of a Kind (FOAK) UK nuclear project, requiring strong project coordination skills, excellent stakeholder engagement, and an ability to operate within regulated, technically complex environments.

• Support the Senior Project Manager in the delivery of all Owner’s Scope engineering activities.
• Assist in coordinating the engineering partner’s work streams, ensuring alignment with project milestones, scope, and quality expectations.
• Manage day-to-day project delivery activities, including progress tracking, technical documentation flow, meeting coordination, and follow-up actions.
• Support the preparation and maintenance of project schedules, risk registers, interface logs, and reporting dashboards.
• Coordinate design review cycles, gathering inputs, consolidating comments, and ensuring outputs are issued in accordance with governance requirements.
• Facilitate effective communication between the engineering partner and internal GBN teams (e.g., safety case, licensing, programme controls, nuclear island, turbine island).
• Monitor the engineering partner’s delivery performance, highlighting risks, issues, and emerging concerns to the Senior Project Manager.
• Ensure compliance with GBN governance, engineering assurance procedures, and documentation standards.
• Support procurement and contract management activities related to the engineering partner where required.
• Promote a collaborative and inclusive working environment, enabling multidisciplinary teams to work efficiently and transparently.
• Contribute to continuous improvement activities focused on improving engineering delivery, documentation quality, and communication processes.

• Experience in project coordination or project management within engineering, infrastructure, energy, or nuclear-related environments.
• Strong understanding of engineering project life cycles, documentation, and design assurance processes.
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary engineering environments, coordinating inputs across technical and non‑technical teams.
• Experience working with or managing engineering consultancies or technical service providers.
• Strong organisational skills, able to manage multiple tasks, dependencies, and interfaces simultaneously.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience engaging engineers, project managers, and external partners.
• Demonstrable ability to identify, track, and escalate risks, issues, and schedule impacts.
• Familiarity with digital project management and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, MS Project, SharePoint).
• Ability to work proactively in fast‑paced, evolving environments typical of FOAK engineering projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, or a related technical or project delivery discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Professional project management qualification (e.g., APM PFQ/PMQ, PMI CAPM or PMP) desirable.
• Working toward membership of a relevant professional institution (APM, IMechE, IET, ICE, etc.) is advantageous.

• 8.5% Pension Contribution & Life Assurance
• Private Medical Scheme*
• Employee Share Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes:
  Electrical Vehicles, Technology and Cycle to Work
• 18 Weeks Full Maternity Pay* (+21w SMP)
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ service, 31 days after 10 years’ service)
• Option to buy, sell and carry over up to 5 days annual leave per year
• In partnership with trade unions
• Personal Development & Further Education Support
• Long Service & Recognition Awards
• Free Employee Assistance Programme
• After 1 year of service.

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