Preconstruction Manager

The Pre-Construction Manager (Enabling & Earthworks Readiness) is responsible for leading the planning, coordination, and readiness activities required to safely and efficiently commence major enabling and earthworks operations within the Civil Works Alliance (CWA) at Sizewell C.

The role acts as the critical interface between programme, engineering, construction, commercial, procurement, permitting, environmental, stakeholder, and supply chain teams to ensure all prerequisites for delivery are identified, managed, and achieved before the mobilisation and execution of works.

The postholder will develop and manage readiness plans, coordinate cross-functional activities, monitor risks and constraints, and provide assurance that enabling and earthworks packages are fully prepared to proceed in accordance with project objectives, regulatory requirements, and safety expectations.

Key responsibilities
Readiness Planning & Coordination
• Develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive readiness plans for enabling and earthworks activities.
• Identify all pre-construction requirements, dependencies, constraints, assumptions, and milestones necessary to support construction readiness.
• Establish and manage readiness gates and assurance processes for work package commencement.
• Coordinate cross-functional readiness reviews and track actions through to closure.
• Ensure alignment between readiness activities and the integrated project programme.
• Coordinate readiness of design information to support construction preparedness.
Enabling & Earthworks Package Readiness
• Lead readiness activities for major enabling works including:
o Site establishment.
o Temporary works and construction logistics.
o Utilities diversions and protections.
o Access roads and infrastructure.
o Environmental mitigation works.
o Earthworks, excavation, and bulk material movement operations.
• Verify that construction methodologies, sequencing, resource strategies, and logistics arrangements are adequately developed and approved.
• Ensure construction teams receive fully prepared and viable work fronts.
• Support constructability reviews to confirm proposed designs, methodologies and sequencing are practical and aligned with delivery requirements.
Risk & Constraint Management
• Identify and manage risks that could affect mobilisation or delivery of enabling and earthworks activities.
• Maintain readiness risk registers and mitigation plans.
• Proactively resolve programme constraints, technical issues, permits, approvals, or interface challenges.
• Escalate critical risks and readiness issues through appropriate governance routes

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.

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…