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Overview
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing and executing various digital projects, ensuring their successful delivery within scope, budget, and timeline. Your project management expertise, leadership skills, and strategic mindset will be pivotal in driving innovation and efficiency in our digital initiatives - the creation of a digital power station. You will be delivering multiple projects at any one time with a strong focus on infrastructure projects, as well as introducing new digital solutions. You will be working closely with the construction and operations teams at SZC to ensure their requirements are met and support their uptake of the IT capability for today and the future. At Sizewell C (SZC), we are building two new nuclear reactors, replicated the work delivered at Hinckley Point C to provide low carbon electricity for around six million homes. The SZC project is a complex and fast-moving environment within a highly regulated industry. We are focused on meeting our go live, or Commercial Operation Date (COD) so every project must be well planned and delivered, to time, cost and quality expectations.
Responsibilities
1. Project Planning: Collaborate with the Business Architect (BA), sponsors and stakeholders to recognise the project needs, define project objectives, scope, and deliverables. Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and resource allocation strategies. Support the BA in developing the Project Initiation Document for Sponsor sign off that ensures effective estimation of cost, timescales and resource requirements, including a detailed Quality Plan to create a 'contract' of expectations with the Project Sponsor.
2. Team Leadership: Lead a cross-functional team of IT professionals, designers, developers, and other stakeholders. Motivate and inspire the team to achieve project goals and foster a collaborative work environment.
3. Stakeholder Management: Assure and oversee the development and execution of a stakeholder engagement plan to manage relationships, ensuring buy-in, timely involvement and commitment of key stakeholders.
4. Budget Management: Manage project budgets and expenditures, ensuring cost-effectiveness and adherence to financial constraints.
5. Risk Assessment: Identify potential risks and challenges in projects and proactively develop mitigation plans to address them.
6. Reporting: Actively manage project progress, scope, budget, risks, issues, resources, dependencies, stakeholders, vendors, and requirements throughout the project lifecycle, escalating and reporting to the Programme Manager, Project Sponsor and Project Board, as appropriate. Assure and oversee the provision of accurate and timely reporting to the Project Board, PMO and NNB senior management.
7. Technology Expertise: Work with SMEs and delivery partners to deliver the latest digital and IT trends, tools, and technologies. Apply this group's knowledge to optimise project performance and make informed decisions.
8. Vendor Management: Collaborate with external vendors and contractors to ensure seamless integration and alignment with project requirements. Assure that Delivery Partners comply with agreed NNB standards, procedures and delivery methods and commitments are identified, agreed and delivered without impacting the project quality criteria. Oversee production of robust and realistic detailed project plans which enable critical path analysis, ensuring action is taken where these deviate from agreed tolerances.
9. Quality Assurance: Work with our Test Centre of Excellence to implement robust testing and quality assurance processes to ensure deliverables meet high standards and customer expectations. Assure and oversee the effective management of all project workstreams to agreed quality criteria throughout the project lifecycle.
10. Governance and Assurance: Work closely with our Governance Team to ensure projects are delivered within the regulations set out for auditability.
11. Communication: Facilitate effective communication among team members, stakeholders, and clients, providing regular project updates and progress reports and working with the Business Change Centre of Excellence to seamlessly integrate the changes into the business.
12. Change Management: Manage project changes and scope creep, evaluating their impact and guiding the team through the necessary adjustments.
13. Project Closure: Conduct project closure evaluations to identify successes, challenges, and lessons learned. Utilise these insights to enhance future project performance.
Requirements
A Project Manager, with experience of delivering Digital & IT projects in a regulated industry is advantageous. You should enjoy working as part of a team and be able to:
1. Proven experience as a Project Manager, with a track record of successful project deliveries, within the digital and IT domain and experience in infrastructure projects is very advantageous.
2. Proficient in project management methodologies, tools, and software; maintaining a focus on project costs and outputs.
3. Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritise tasks effectively.
4. Excellent leadership, communication (written/verbal) at all levels of the organisation, and interpersonal skills.
5. Strong organisational and time management skills.
6. Engage, influence and manage others including mentoring and coaching support.
7. Confident in making decisions.
8. Adapt and show resilience to change.
9. Analytical mindset with problem-solving abilities.
10. Receive and give constructive feedback.
11. Project management certifications are advantageous.
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