Turnkey Configuration Engineer

Role: Configuration Status Accounting (CSA) Configuration Engineer (Turnkey Contracts)
Position: Contract
Location: Aztec West (Bristol)
Duration: Ongoing
Pay: 350 p/d (PAYE) or 450 p/d (UMBRELLA)

Build the Future with the UK's Largest Infrastructure Project

Rullion is proud to partner with one of the UK's most ambitious energy projects - Hinkley Point C (HPC) - in search of a highly capable Configuration Engineer to join the Plant Integration Team.

This is a unique opportunity to apply your expertise to identify, create, refine and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of configuration management systems.

The Role
Reporting to the Turnkey Configuration Team Lead, as our next Configuration Engineer, your main responsibility is to define and deliver proportionate oversight of the configuration management performed by HPC's Turnkey supplier contracts. You will be working with the wider HPC Plant Configuration Team and HPC suppliers across a number of diverse contracts. The Plant Configuration Team plays a vital role in ensuring that the HPC project is designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned in a controlled manner, and will be critical to the goal of operating the station.

In this post, you'll ensure that all activities are performed in strict compliance with site license requirements, statutory regulations, and company and local directives. Your role is crucial in maintaining adherence to procedures and safety rules in the projects delivery of a safe and operable power station.

Principal Accountabilities

• Work with a number of Turnkey contract suppliers, across the different HPC programmes, to understand their configuration management processes, influencing them where necessary to bring their procedures in line with HPCs'. You will use this knowledge to develop and implement configuration surveillance plans per contract by expanding on surveillance principles defined by the Team Lead.
• Work as part of a team to deliver the oversight & surveillance activities as noted above.
• Understand how the project can bring together the different contract configuration management systems, to have a single configuration management data base and thus single source of truth.
• Serve as the primary contact for a number of HPC Turnkey contracts on configuration topics, particularly as the technical liaison for Engineering Managers and Design Entities on configuration management topics.
• Execute all activities with strict adherence to site license requirements, statutory regulations, company and local directives, procedures, and safety rules.
• Identify and develop opportunities to streamline the configuration management processes and procedures on the Turnkey scope, and wider project as necessary.
• Oversee the maintenance and accuracy of the Plant Configuration Registers and List of Applicable Documents across a number of Turnkey contracts.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience
To excel in this role, we're looking for you to have a solid understanding of analysis tools and methods and know how to apply them effectively. Experience in process development is key, along with a good grasp of quality arrangements. You'll need to be proactive in resolving Configuration Management issues, analysing data, and highlighting relevant concerns. Your ability to extract and compile data from various sources, maintain accurate and timely records, and identify opportunities for improving procedures, processes, and systems will be essential to your success in this role.

Essential Experience & Skills:

• Experience in Configuration management.
• A degree in a relevant science or engineering field, or a strong technical background, is preferred.
• HPC context and understanding is desirable.
• Experience in managing engineering documentation, including Redline Drawings and Work Pack management.
• Strong organisational and coordination skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including with technical disciplines.
• Confident decision-making abilities, with the capability to escalate and resolve issues effectively.
• Able to travel to multiple office locations.

Are you ready to be part of a project that's reshaping the energy landscape of the UK? This is your opportunity to make a significant impact on the construction of Hinkley Point C. If you have the skills and experience to lead this challenging endeavour, we want to hear from you.

What's in It for You

• Be Part of History: Work on the UK's first new nuclear power station in a generation.
• Scale & Impact: Over 22,000 workers contributing to a 36 billion project that supports 70,000+ UK jobs.
• Net Zero Future: Contribute to a project essential to Britain's low-carbon energy transformation.
• Career Development: Work in a multi-disciplinary environment with exposure to high-level planning and world-class logistics operations.

Application Information:

If this sounds of interest, please APPLY NOW with your CV and a cover letter highlighting your suitability for this exciting role.

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