Contract Baseline Library Manager

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Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

Nuclear Power Programmes are delivering client critical works to some of our major UK and European Projects. Our embedded teams are delivering support to Hinkley Point C (New build power station in the South West), Sizewell C (located in the South East), helping develop technologies in SMR (Small modular Reactor) capability and working towards building Poland's first Nuclear Power station.

Working in both client facing and internal roles we are delivering major programme and project management capabilities throughout the project lifecycle. We are driving to deliver safe, high quality and to time solutions by thinking innovatively and working collaboratively.

The role of Contract Baseline Library Manager is accountable for the day-to-day activities associated with the Contract Baseline Library management services at Sizewell C on behalf of the Project Delivery Organisation. The Contract Baseline Library Manager is principally responsible for the ongoing management and governance of SZC's Contract Baseline Library.

The library, which is managed and controlled in Teamcenter, contains over 250 documents forming SZC's generic contract requirements, standards and templates covering all facets of contractual obligations, constraints, management and execution associated with the appointment of a supply chain necessary to construct a nuclear power station in the UK. Key responsiblites will be:

• Management, through governance and oversight, of the Contract Baseline Library within Teamcenter
• Secretary of the Contract Baseline Library Change Board.
• Supporting and facilitating the adoption of industry best practice and development of established requirements, processes and procedures
• Providing a channel to the Functional Leads and Subject Matter Experts through which improvements and changes to the way we work can be raised and actioned
• Providing feedback to process and procedure owners regarding performance and satisfaction of business needs
• Sourcing commercial guidance and advice to contributors/authors of baseline contract documents
• Seeking endorsement for stakeholder assessment and acceptance of changes to baseline documents from senior managers
• Co-ordination of Change Requests with applicable stakeholders on the SZC project
• Working closely with the SZC Legal Team for contract document changes
• Providing support to document control in their management of the Universal Document Selection Tool (UDST)
• Co-ordinating training of SZC resources on use of Teamcenter functions to build tender contract packs for Signature of Contract

Here's What You'll Need:

• Educated to Degree level is beneficial but is not essential
• Basic knowledge of NEC & FIDIC forms of contract is desirable
• Familiar with the nuclear site licence conditions and the nuclear baseline philosophy
• Understanding of the relationships on major projects between the client and key suppliers
• Good understanding of the UK regulatory framework
• Advanced level skills and knowledge of Teamcenter
• Excellent communication skills able to convey complex systems and processes to novice users
• Able to demonstrate a considerable track record of preparing and/or administering systems and processes

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women's - find out more about our employee networks here.

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