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Area Engineering Lead

  • Location: Bridgwater, TA5 1UF
  • Salary: Your Requested Salary
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted 22 days ago

  • Sector: Nuclear
  • Contact: Joanna Davies
  • Contact Email: joanna.davies@nrl.co.uk
  • Contact Phone: 01942 323277
  • Start Date: 01 May 2025
  • Expiry Date: 01 June 2025
  • Job Ref: V-244579

On behalf of or client, NRL are recruiting for an Area Engineering Lead for work at Hinkley Point C.

At Hinkley Point C (HPC) our client is building two new nuclear reactors, the first in a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK providing low carbon electricity for around six million homes.

As an Area Engineering Lead, you will join part of Nuclear New Builds’ (NNB) Technical Directorate to work on a day-to-day basis on site with NNB’s Joint Design Office.

In your role, you will assist the Area Engineering Manager and coordinate all engineering disciplines to serve the needs for the construction of a given area. You will operationally manage the Designers’ deliverables; this includes the coordination and management of design changes, monitoring and ensuring configuration control, response to site queries, and closure of design open points.


What you’ll be doing…

  • Acting as lead point of contact for a defined plant area scope and managing a small design team.

  • Working closely with the delivery and construction teams to gather requirements. You will then use the requirements to define scope, scheduling and prioritising Engineering tasks for the team to ensure site needs are met.

  • Manage multi-disciplinary, cross-contract interfaces and act as mediator/ decision maker when best for project decisions are required.

  • Working closely with the Design teams, Contractor and Construction teams to maintain technical quality of responses (content, consistency, comprehensiveness and accuracy), construction programme and construction safety.

  • Coordinating interfaces and open points to ensure all design and construction changes are finalised ahead of the construction schedule. You will be required to manage expectations and mediate technical resolution where necessary.

  • Accepting Design Packages released for a defined plant scope area, ensuring that the package meets functional requirements.

  • Identifying issues that could affect Nuclear Safety and ensuring that processes comply with project quality procedures.

  • Actively reporting to the Engineering Manager on risks and interfaces (technical and functional) and facilitate the resolution of all issues raised.

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Who you are…

  • Degree qualified or equivalent experience in an Engineering Discipline (preferably Civil or Structural).

  • Solid experience in the design of a variety of Infrastructure, Civil and Structural works.

  • A demonstrated history of internal and external stakeholder management.

  • Previous experience of site Engineering and management of design change processes.

  • Understanding of Contract Management, particularly NEC, CDM Regulations etc.

  • Previous experience in a regulated industry is desirable.

  • Previous experience in using BIM software such as Navisworks, Tekla or Revit is desirable.

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