Supply Chain Manager - Bristol

About the role

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick are seeking a Supply Chain Manager to join theSizewell C Project. You'll work with true experts who'll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we'll help you take it much, much further.

Sizewell C will create a 3.2-gigawatt power station generating low-carbon electricity for at least 60 years. It will be built next to Sizewell B which began operating in 1995 and has so far avoided more than 76 million tonnes of carbon emissions.

This role will be hybrid with a min of 2 days at our Bristol Aztec West office.

What you'll be doing

Purpose of the Role

The Supply Chain Manager is responsible for leading procurement and contract delivery activities for allocated MEH Alliance workstreams supporting the Sizewell C project. The role covers end-to-end responsibility from sourcing strategy and contract award through to post-award supplier delivery, ensuring suppliers support programme schedule, nuclear safety, quality and cost objectives.

You will provide leadership across procurement and contract management teams, ensuring a seamless transition from procurement into delivery and effective supplier performance management throughout the contract lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement sourcing strategies aligned with the MEH Alliance supply chain strategy and Sizewell C programme requirements.
• Lead procurement activities including tendering, supplier evaluation, negotiation and contract award.
• Ensure procurement and contract activities comply with SZC governance, nuclear supply chain requirements and project procedures.
• Lead and manage Supply Chain Specialists and Senior Supply Chain Specialists across procurement activities.
• Manage Contract Managers responsible for NEC3 contract administration and supplier delivery performance.
• Ensure clear and effective handover from procurement to contract management at contract award.
• Oversee contract mobilisation to ensure suppliers are ready to deliver in line with project requirements.
• Provide leadership and direction on NEC3 contract administration, including compensation events, notices and change control.
• Monitor and manage supplier performance across cost, quality, safety and programme metrics.
• Identify and manage supply chain risks, including long-lead items, manufacturing capacity and supplier capability.
• Support supplier intervention and recovery planning where delivery risks emerge.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, planning, commercial, quality and project teams to support programme delivery.
• Promote collaborative, transparent relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders.

Who we're looking for

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Significant experience managing procurement and supply chain delivery within major infrastructure, engineering or nuclear projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading procurement teams and managing complex supplier contracts.
• Strong understanding of commercial management and contract delivery within large programmes.
• Able to obtain a security clearance

Desirable

• Degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business or equivalent experience.
• Experience administering NEC contracts and working closely with contract management teams.
• Experience working within regulated industries or major nuclear infrastructure programmes.
• Strong understanding of supplier performance management and supply chain risk management.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

About us

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

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