Project Assurance Specialist Aberdare, Wales
BT
Full Time
Aberdare, Wales
24584 - 52983 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Project Assurance Specialist
Job Req ID: 16112
Posting Date: 12-May-2023
Function: Engineering
Location:
Aberdare, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive with great benefits
Why this job matters
In a nutshell, we use our engineering expertise to protect and build the services of today and tomorrow, for our customers - around the clock and wherever they are – and we need you to help us do this.
Engineering Services is at the heart of BT's service delivery - we plan, build and maintain BT’s 5'700 exchanges and 289 radio sites across the UK and we maintain 10 data centres and 25 EE sites.
We understand and care about what our customers need. ES helps BT provide an "always on" customer service experience in an increasingly demanding world.
Our job is to keep the BT network safe and working 24/7/365. We’re also excited to be building the networks of the future – 5G, software defined networks, and network convergence, to name a few.
We stay one step ahead and respond to our customers’ ever-changing needs. We react quickly and are always looking to improve our responsiveness and reliability.
We stay one step ahead and respond to our customers’ ever-changing needs. We react quickly and are always looking to improve our responsiveness and reliability.
H&S as a priority – health and safety is our number one priority – you’ll have a good knowledge of our key health and safety guidelines and you’ll be able to demonstrate a good understanding of why we take health and safety extremely seriously at all times.
D&I and Ethics: You’ll be responsible for helping to create an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed. Diversity makes sense for us, for our customers and for our future.
You’ll be a technical specialist & delivery manager to assigned projects covering 21c network accommodation expansion. This will cover delivery management of the specification, design, procurement and construction phases and includes DNO capacity, AC / Standby Power systems, AC infrastructure, DC Power, Cooling, BMS and site construction.
You will be accountable for ensuring your allocated budget is spent and managed to meet business commitments, ensuring the cooling programme is kept on track. This will be in the order of £15 to £20m.
You'll have the following responsibilities
- Delivering major mechanical and electrical projects at BT’s core network, EE mobile sites and Data Centres. Delivering projects primarily at our 21c sites – enhancing BT’s space, power and cooling capacity
- Completing site strategy and site designs, to help shape BT’s Core estate in line with forecast network growth
- Compiling statement of requirements for major M&E projects
- Review technical designs, evaluate designs against SOR requirements
- Work with subject matter experts to ensure innovation and compliance is maintained in designs. Utilising new technologies where appropriate for design or cost improvements.
- Providing delivery expertise over investment programmes ensuring that the all break down elements in the delivery phase are agreed, and are delivered on time and to the budget.
- Perform technical due diligence over equipment suppliers and their associated sub-contractors to ensure compliance to BT infrastructure installation standards.
- Ensuring that Legal and Regulatory compliance is maintained and that BT safe working practices are applied.
- Hold regular commercial review meetings with the suppliers and internal BT stakeholders to facilitate progress, supplier performance and improvement opportunities.
- Undertake site audits to maintain a good understand of current installation practices.
- Produce regular reports detailing the progress and performance of the suppliers against agreed delivery and financial targets.
- Leading contractor, third party supplier performance to ensure that unforeseen issues that could put projects into delay are resolved in the quickest most efficient manner possible, agreeing adjustments to keep projects on track.
Please refer to the attached Job Description for full details of the role.
You'll have the following skills and experience
- Stakeholder Management: Managing expectations and the level of stakeholder engagement. Ability to manage complex relationships within, and externally to, the M&E platform.
- Site & Project Governance: Able to interpret relevant requirements and apply at a site and project level to ensure correct governance is maintained through project life cycle, and handover to maintenance.
- Commercial Awareness: Able to compile detailed budget costs for projects. Able to review and challenge commercially if required.
- Change Management: Able to deliver required change controls during project life cycle.
- Communication Ability: Able to express ideas, explanations or opinions in a way that is appropriate to the situation, and understandable to audience.
- Presentation skills: Presentation and engagement skills for an appropriate audience, taking complex data and presenting this simply and effectively
Experience
- Specialist in mechanical and electrical, power & cooling specifically Standby generation and AC infrastructure and its implementation and operation in networks and datacentres
- You will be a qualified to BS7671 18th
- You will have a solid academic electrical or building services engineering background (BEng, HND, HNC), or the equivalent demonstrable work experience
- You will have in depth working knowledge of The Electricity at Work Act, The Health and Safety at Work Act & Construction Design Management Regulations
- Understanding knowled of Commercial Client / Principle Designer under Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015
- A proven delivery track record of M&E infrastructure project delivery
- An understanding of finance structures, reporting systems and governance
- Comfortable in developing your expertise into emerging technology areas with minimal training.
- An understanding of network monitoring systems and implementation practices.
- Ability to deal with multiple competing suppliers.
- An understanding of commercial litigation and warranty claims
- You will have experience of delivering capital and current account programmes of work.
- An awareness of IP networking and the building of supporting architectures.
- Good stakeholder management skills
- Ability to effectively manage geographically dispersed people, including matrix management
- Ability to translate complex issues into simple explanations
- Excellent Excel and PowerPoint
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- 10% on target bonus
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme
- Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
- 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
- Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
- BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
- 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans
Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Leading inclusively
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
BT
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London, United Kingdom
Philip Jansen
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10000+ Employees
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Telecommunications Services
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