Commissioning Planning Engineer

Location : Bridgwater

Job Type : Permanent, Full time

Field : Nuclear

Way of working : On site

Education Level : Master’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Construction or other related field

Experience : at least 2 to 3 years of relevant experience

Salary: Attractive following experience

Starting date: ASAP

ABOUT US

KURY UK Ltd is part of an international company, Kury Groupe, 100% dedicated to the nuclear field with 26 years of experience in nuclear engineering.

Since then, we have been working with EDF ( French Electricity Producer ). We are involved in several nuclear projects, including FA3 EPR (France), the French fleet, Taishan EPR (China), Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C.

We are now looking for engineers to join our Team in the UK. Our human-sized structure (100 employees worldwide) allows us to devote ourselves to mentoring and training our engineers . We take a special care of our employees’ development by ensuring them quality projects through which they will increase their skills.

Our Kury values: Curiosity, Trust, Rigour, Teamwork

Our team is international, our engineers are coming from different countries as we are looking for the best talents!

THE ROLE

Your role will include managing the alignment of contract schedules, and provision of time-related data and analysis. You will support the Planning Manager in leading central Planning activities for the Project and in developing Planning standards, policies and strategies. You will support in making informed decisions for an efficient and timely delivery of work scope.

You will be in charge of the following activities:

• Support the Lead Planner in the implementation and maintenance of Project Controls processes for Planning.
• Support Senior Project/ Programme Managers, including the production of monthly reports, through the provision of intelligent information and analysis.
• Collaborate with other Disciplines of Integrated Project Controls, as well as other Project Support Functions, to help deliver Project goals in keeping with the Project principles of Trust, Transparency and Teamwork.

Core Processes:

• Produce and maintain the schedule baseline IWS in Primavera 6 (P6), with fully logic-linked work plans aligned to the Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and utilising approved construction techniques.
• Ensure the Level 2/4 IWS is updated to an agreed timeframe.
• Assist in the Trend & Change process, including analysis at Project level, generating performance indicators and providing feedback on areas of risk and opportunities.
• Identify, analyse and provide solutions to time-related issues.
• Co-ordinate, verify and produce Project-level schedule reports to a defined reporting cycle, including commentary on key time-related drivers and performance issues.
• Adhere to Project governance and Scheduling standards and procedures.
• Ensure all Project documents, in particular Sensitive Nuclear Information, are correctly marked, and protected in accordance with policies and procedures.

Functional Management:

• Accountable for the adherence of direct reports to Project governance and standards.
• Proactively seek to continuously improve Discipline performance by implementing best practice and learning.
• Facilitate collaboration with Programme teams and wider industry partners to ensure consistency and transparency in approach and data.
• Take necessary care to ensure that direct reports properly protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of corporate information from unauthorised disclosure, modification or destruction.
• Support the recruitment process for the Discipline.
• Act as a role model for the Project by exhibiting and encouraging behaviours which are in alignment with the Project's values of Humility, Positivity, Clarity, Respect and Solidarity.

In order to understand the operating environment, you will be familiar with the following key documents:

• Company Manual – outlines the purpose of the company.
• Project Execution & Business Plan – describes the delivery strategy for the Project.
• Project Delivery Model – signposts readers to key procedures.
• Integrated Project Controls Manual – how work is undertaken in the Integrated Project Controls Function.
• Discipline-specific Procedures – detailed activity steps, interfaces, etc.
• The Nuclear environment is highly regulated by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).
• Nuclear Safety Culture is of paramount importance to the Project and embedded throughout.

Your key Interfaces will include:

• Planning Discipline.
• Other Integrated Project Controls Disciplines (Cost, Estimating, Risk, Performance Measurement & Analysis, Project Controls Managers (PCMs)).
• Delivery Integration (Pre-Construction Planning).

During the first months, you can count on the KURY Team to assist you all along your projects. This experience will give you the opportunity to move on to other projects in the medium term: you will tackle varied but complementary projects, studies and technical topics. Your understanding of the technical and environmental challenges will allow you to take on complex and critical transversal studies.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Proven relevant experience in a Project Management or Project Controls environment in a similar Scheduling role on a major construction project.
• Professionally qualified with chartered or equivalent status.
• Technical and practical comprehension of engineering, procurement and construction methods and techniques in a UK context.
• Ability to produce accurate, complete and fully logic-linked construction plans.
• Substantial experience in the use of scheduling software, Primavera P6 version 7 and above.
• Working knowledge of schedule risk analysis techniques.
• Detailed understanding of scheduling methodologies and techniques.
• Understanding of other Disciplines of Project Controls (particularly Estimating, Cost and Risk) including management techniques and associated software.
• Understanding of earned value analysis.
• Understanding of various contract types, in particular the NEC suite and FIDIC.
• Good commercial awareness.
• High level of analytical and numerical skills.
• Good attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills at all working and management levels.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Influencing skills.
• Ability to build relationships with Project stakeholders, and to act on behalf of the Programme Team as their representative.
• French-speaking would be an advantage.