Senior Project Manager

Principal Accountabilities

• Support the Senior Project Manager in the delivery of all Owner’s Scope engineering activities.
• Assist in coordinating the engineering partner’s workstreams, 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

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required

• Experience in project coordination or project management within engineering, infrastructure, energy, or nuclear-related environments.
• Strong understanding of engineering project lifecycles, 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.
  Qualifications
• 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.

Key responsibilities

• Support the Senior Project Manager in the delivery of all Owner’s Scope engineering activities, coordinating the engineering partner’s workstreams.
• Manage day-to-day project delivery activities, including progress tracking, technical documentation flow, meeting coordination, and follow-up actions.
• Monitor the engineering partner’s delivery performance, highlighting risks, issues, and emerging concerns to the Senior Project Manager.