ENVIRONMENT

The UK Manufacturing Control (UKMC) team aims to provide adequate and reactive surveillance on:

• manufacturing documentation:
  • reviewing procurement and manufacturing specs, procedures, welding books… - all the suppliers documents required to begin the manufacturing of equipment
  • issuing technical positions on non-conformance reports (NCRs), exemption requests (ERs), technical queries (TQs) that may arise during the manufacturing

• in-shop manufacturing:
  • performing inspections at the suppliers’ facilities during the manufacturing

These activities are achieved in order to provide confidence to our clients (projects) and ensure that the manufactured parts and equipment reach the expected level of quality, in accordance with the specified requirements, and can thus be delivered to nuclear sites for installation.

UKMC team is now part of EDF EPR Engineering UK (EPR-E). Its headquarters are in Bristol (Aztec West). But UKMC staff is present all over the UK: 12 people at end of 2023 (inspectors and engineers mostly), and the team will be growing to 15 in 2024 on the same scope of activity (but might grow larger depending on business development opportunities).

The main competencies of the team are Manufacturing, Materials, Welding and NDTs.

UKMC current scope of work is basically all the manufacturing in the UK for new nuclear projects (UK and abroad) and the French operating fleets. But most of the work (~90%) is dedicated to HPC project on all areas and programs

MISSION

The purpose of this role is primarily to assist the UKMC  Discipline Manager. The main tasks are:

• Technical assistance contracts:
  • to perform the operational management of TA services (monthly meetings with partners, monitoring of actions, monitoring of indicators, etc.)
  • to verify the partners times, log of activities, invoicing…

• Internal control and monitoring of the team activities:
  • to achieve the managerial validation of some of the team's technical deliverables
  • to monitor the actions given to the UKMC pilots (assigned with the management), and to challenge the team performance (with the UKMC KPIs)

• Internal support:
  • to provide support to the UKMC pilots for the assignment of inspection resources (arbitrations if necessary)
  • to help the UKMC manager in preparing the monthly team meetings (updating KPIs dashboard, preparing some topics)
  • to help solving all kinds of issues (IT, logistics…)
  • to carry out various administrative procedures

• Internal managerial representation:
  • to ensure a field presence (with in-shop inspectors)
  • to participate in regular meetings with inspectors and engineers

• Taking information externally:
  • to participate in part of the directorate meeting within DI
  • to participate in some technical and transverse meetings in DI and EPR-E

• Propositions of business development, and identifying strategic opportunities

She/He will have to be able to travel on a regular basis in the UK (couple of times each month) and occasionally in France (Paris)

General and technical background expected

• Management skills: an already acquired and successful experience is team leading/management is preferable, otherwise to be able to demonstrate such skills
• Knowledge in equipment procurement contracts for nuclear projects (HPC preferably)
• Good technical competencies in mechanical engineering, materials, welding
• Advanced knowledge in the manufacturing of equipment/parts, as well as in Quality and/or Surveillance
• Experience in the management/coordination of contracts for technical assistance

 
Skills required

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and writing)
• Dynamic personality, agile and innovating thinking, but also capable of following the process
• Conscientiousness, well-organised
• Ability to prioritise, to question and understand the imperatives and to meet commitments to quality and schedule
• Ability to remain focused under pressure, thinking clearly and objectively
• Ability to cope in a multi-interfaced and changing environment, and to manage the interactions within a multi-disciplinary team

Languages (level)  

• English: fluent preferred, at least B2
• French: preferable, but not mandatory