Civils Manager

Description

• Help oversee the day-to-day management of the Design Authority function, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and compliance with STEP Programme and UKIFS policies.
• Act as a cultural ambassador, representing our organization's values and professionalism in interactions with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders.
• Your leadership will align diverse teams around a unified design strategy.
• Lead the development and execution of the implementation strategy, manage prioritisation and value engineering efforts, and ensure activities stay on track with budget, quality, and performance targets.
• Your leadership in early design work will set the foundation for the plant’s evolution.
• Make informed decisions and solve problems effectively, considering diverse perspectives and organisational goals.
• Ensure all design decisions prioritise safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance, balancing risk with performance, especially in the context of this first-of-a-kind fusion project.
• Establish high-level objectives and requirements that guide the system towards a high-performing, safe, and sustainable prototype.
• Recognise and address the inherent complexity of integrating civil infrastructure with a rapidly evolving fusion plant design, where systems may mature at different rates.
• Be accountable for identifying, managing, and mitigating technical risks.
• Help foster interdisciplinary collaboration, coordinating teams across systems, location, time, materials, controls, and operations.
• Delivery of engineering / technical assurance/construction in high hazard or highly regulated environments
• Develop inventive strategies to address gaps, ensuring seamless integration and rapid progress by recognising the differing stages of maturity between plant and civil facility design.
• You will ensure the design evolves with clear direction, aligning with the programme’s goals and long-term vision.
• Foster continuous improvement, drive innovation, and provide regular progress reports with actionable insights to enhance programme delivery.
• Resolve conflicts, balance competing objectives, and negotiate trade-offs to deliver a fully integrated civil plant design that achieves optimal performance in line with the design vision.
• Define and own the overarching vision for the civil design for all facilities and buildings required to house the powerplant.
• Define and implement policies, strategies, and standards for civil engineering design, establishing governance to ensure organisational adherence.
• Selecting appropriate locations for new construction projects to take place.
• Uphold safety standards across all design and operational stages.
• Ensure that the facility and civil building design meets all relevant industry standards, quality codes, and regulatory requirements.
• You will also focus on scalability, designing for future iterations and ensuring the plant’s long-term viability and adaptability as new technologies and operational needs emerge.
• Managing change and change controls.
• Lead the investigation and incubation of early-stage concepts in areas of low design maturity. Assess their potential impact on the whole plant design, translating innovative ideas into concrete requirements.
• Ensure that all domains work cohesively, driving integrated decision-making that reflects the plant’s complex and emergent nature.
• Foster a positive and inclusive team environment that aligns with our cultural values.
• Coordinate building specialisms to ensure consistency in approaches and standards across the site.
• Assist with the integration of building design services and the civil structure.
• Contribute to maintaining a respectful and collaborative workplace, valuing diversity, and promoting teamwork.
• Presenting detailed schematics, plans and budgets to key stakeholders.

Requirements

• Experience working in an emergent tech environment.
• Experience with Product Lifecycle Management systems.
• Experience delivering technical assurance in high hazard and/or technically complex major programmes.
• Excellent knowledge of modern civil engineering principles, standards, equations, and processes
• Experience of working in an organisation that holds design authority.
• Experience coordinating diverse delivery across multiple partners or businesses.
• Proven leadership of complex systems engineering workflows, including the derivation of requirements from objectives and the management of subsequent V&V activities.
• Proven ability to distil complex technical challenges into clear strategies and actions.
• Public Sector Knowledge UK: Familiarity with the specific regulations, policies, and governance frameworks applicable to public sector organisations
• Knowledge of environmental compliance and sustainability principles in civil design.
• Chartered Engineer status or equivalent, preferably Institute of Civil Engineers.
• Having awareness on the benefits of BIM (Building Information Modelling) or other digital engineering tools.
• Experience of designing heavy structures (civil nuclear and/or defence)

Benefits

• Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
• Wide range of career development opportunities.
• Corporate bonus scheme up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
• Flexible working options including family friendly policies.
• Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays.
• Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders,

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