Senior Lead - Cost Estimating and Intelligence (Sizewell C)

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Sizewell C. The power of good for Britain.

Location: London* (hybrid working with occasional site visits)

Employment type: Permanent full-time

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Salary: £90,000 to £100,000,dependent on experience, plus 10% bonus, car allowance, 28 days holiday, market leading pension 7.5 % employee contribution and company contribution of 15% and other benefits.

Date: Friday 10th January 2025.

The Opportunity

Are you ready to power your career in the nuclear energy sector? Do you have a passion for estimating intelligence on infrastructure projects and thrive in dynamic environments where your expertise can make a tangible impact? Join us at Sizewell C as our Senior Lead - Cost Estimating and Intelligence and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of one of the UK's most significant energy projects.

About Us

Sizewell C represents a transformative leap towards sustainable energy production in the UK. Once built, this nuclear power station located in Suffolk will generate enough low carbon electricity to supply over six million homes annually. By reducing carbon emissions by approximately nine million tonnes per year compared to traditional gas-fired plants, Sizewell C stands as a beacon of environmental responsibility and technological advancement.

The Role

As Senior Lead - Cost Estimating and Intelligence, you will provide strategic cost estimating and intelligence, providing oversight and assurance of cost estimates to maximise business objectives as well as providing recommendations on cost-effective solutions. You will work closely with our senior leadership, the wider commercial team and stakeholders to support successful delivery of this critical infrastructure project.

Key Responsibilities:

Providing intelligent insight into cost estimates, assumptions, project uncertainties etc. and interrogation of scope to support recommendations and decisions on cost-effective solutions.

Using management information, analyse and assess cost estimates, performance/schedule predictions, qualifications etc. to provide assurance and intelligent insight across SZC's portfolio of contracts.

Set the approach and procedures to ensure effective assurance, accurate data capture & benchmarking, strategies to maximise opportunities and minimise risk.

Acting as the accountable owner of the SZC Cost Estimating and Intelligence framework and continuously improving the overall cost estimating and intelligence processes and governance.

Ensuring cost estimating and intelligence activities support achievement of SZC's strategic contract management aims and long-term planning.

Leadership Responsibilities:

Manage, mentor and guide an estimating function fostering their professional growth and excellence.

Act as a key advisor to senior management, providing insights to cost estimating to support decision making.

Alongside other members of the Supply Chain senior leadership team, driving a culture of continuous improvement and lessons learned.

Stakeholder engagement at multiple levels - executives, external bodies, and regulators including preparing Board papers and reports.

Fostering a culture aligned to SZC's values including role modelling and reinforcing behaviours that ensure adoption and adherence with the highest standards of safety, quality, schedule, and cost.

Qualifications and Experience

Highly knowledgeable and subject matter expert on cost estimating and intelligence, estimating rules, classification, codes, standards etc with clear understanding of best practice contract methodologies in infrastructure.

Highly developed commercial, cost estimating and project cost control skills and demonstrable ability to make sound decisions on matters of significant financial value.

Able to demonstrate an extensive track record of working as part of a Senior Management Team, managing high performing teams and people with a cost estimating and intelligence focus.

Good understanding of commercial and procurement best practice and how high-quality cost estimating and intelligence capability can add value to all delivery phases including risk and opportunity management, contract performance measurement and change management.

If the above sounds like you and you want to be part of a project shaping the future of clean energy, then we'd love to hear from you!

A full job description is available on application.

Power in Diversity

Sizewell C is a great place to work, where everyone is welcome.

To fulfil our commitment of doing the power of good for Britain, our ambition is to have a workforce which reflects and benefits the society we are part of and serve. Every worker on SZC, wherever they are, should help to create and experience the right environment where everyone on the team understands, respects and embraces diversity with a culture where everyone is treated with equal respect and are all given equal access to opportunities. By valuing the different points of view and experiences that having a diverse team brings, and by fostering an inclusive climate, we will create a great place to work and a more successful project.

We create the right environment where people feel able to bring their whole selves to work. Whilst working together there is mutual trust and appreciation created through the building of meaningful relationships with one another, aligned with our key values:

Respect: Value the rules and environment in which we operate
Positivity: Positively challenge poor quality and performance
Humility: Be open to other's points of view and ideas, be willing to debate and to compromise
Solidarity: One team, working closely together and helping each other
Clarity: Communicate clearly and consistently

Everyone is able to get the most from their work and the workplace, and in return, give their best.

Competitive Salary and Benefits

We're dedicated to offering flexible benefits that support our people across all aspects of their lives and we're delighted to offer a range of benefits to support our employees' physical, emotional and financial wellbeing.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a market-leading company pension scheme, paid holidays and a range of flexible benefits, such as: a company incentive bonus plan, health cover, cycle to work scheme, discounts and employee pricing.

* Sizewell C Limited will be moving offices from 90 Whitfield Street to 25 Copthall Avenue.

25 Copthall Avenue is a modern building just a short walk from Moorgate and Liverpool Street stations. Sizewell C will occupy the whole of the 4th floor. We are targeting a move in early 2025.

This role will be contractually based at 25 Copthall Avenue. However, depending on the date of the move there may be a period that you will be required to work temporarily from our existing office at 90 Whitfield Street.

Sizewell C Limited (Sizewell C) is nuclear site licensed company whose business is to design, finance, construct, commission, operate, maintain, and eventually decommission the nuclear power plant and related infrastructure at Sizewell C in Suffolk. Sizewell C was formerly under the majority ownership of the EDF Group but is currently majority owned by HM Government and operates as an independent company. EDF remains a key shareholder in Sizewell C and the business therefore maintains close links to EDF as a part of its 'nuclear family'.

As a Sizewell C employee, you may wonder why you are contacted by colleagues with an EDF email, or see the EDF logo on portals that you access and/or documentation you receive; this is because we have partnered with EDF for the provision of a number of support services whilst we complete a successful transition out of the EDF group.