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Framatome is an international leader in nuclear energy recognized for its innovative, digital and value added solutions for the global nuclear fleet. With worldwide expertise and a proven track record for reliability and performance, the company designs, services and installs components, fuel, and instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants. Its more than 20 000 employees work every day to help Framatome's customers supply ever cleaner, safer and more economical low-carbon energy. Visit us at www.framatome.com, and follow us on Twitter: @Framatome_ and LinkedIn: Framatome.
Framatome is owned by the EDF Group (80.5%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI – 19.5%).
Reference number
2025-24299
Publication date
12/5/2025
Job details
Category
TA - DESIGN & ENGINEERING - TAC - Civil engineering, Layout and HVAC
Job Opening Title
SZC HQ Technical Lead
Job type
Non fixed term
BU description
Framatome is a major international player in the nuclear energy market recognised for its innovative solutions and value-added technologies for designing, building, maintaining, and advancing the global nuclear fleet. The company designs, manufactures, and installs components, fuel and instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants and offers a full range of reactor services.
Job description
The Civil technical lead will mainly work on SZC project, as part of one of the civil building teams responsible for the design of one of the buildings of the Nuclear Island. They will report operationnally to the corresponding Civil team Lead, and functionally to the Civil Group Lead.
The Civil technical lead will also support the Civil Transverse Team, under the leadership of the Civil Transverse team Lead.
In the frame of their involvement in SZC, the Civil technical lead will be responsible of surveillance, review and acceptance of technical documentation, prepared by L3 CW Designer. The key duties, responsibilities and deliverables are as follows:
Carries out and coordinates the review and acceptance of deliverables in their scope of activity
Responsible for the raising, follow up and resolution of building specific technical open points as a first point of contact for the L3 CW designer
Supports the civil building lead for the resolution of technical issue of transverse/complex technical open points
Supports the civil building lead and contract engineering lead in coordination with L3 CW designer and other stakeholders for producing the design
Coordinates and carries out the resolution of building specific technical topics and tracks the evolution of these activities in their scope of activity
Supports the contract engineering lead for the preparation of progress reports for the Client Project Manager and alerts of any technical risks to program
Supports the contract engineering lead for reviewing technical proposals for variations
Anticipate and raise alerts on technical open points and contractual matters.
Identification of risks and opportunities within their scope.
Support the building or team lead with Preparation of design change papers and their presentation in change committees.
Collect, analyze and verify the consistency of input data from previous projects and other disciplines, including liaise with HPC site based engineering teams to recover input data and lessons learnt from HPC
Contribute and coordinate CDM reviews, create and maintain the Design Risk Register.
Liaise with subject matter experts.
Produce deliverables for which they are responsible (input data packages, handover reports, design hypotheses, methodology and assumption notes, technical specifications, calculation notes) and ensure they are raised to the appropriate approval levels and the correct process is followed. Collect, analyze and verify the consistency of input data
Perform technical verifications of civil engineering design notes, models and drawings.
Profile
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
· Technical knowledge of civil engineering
· Able to work independently but also as part of a team
· Able to take technical decisions with and without support (when necessary)
· Good level of reporting.
· Knowledge and understanding of CDM regulations
· Ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
· Ability to set, achieve and maintain high standards of safety and quality
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Delivery focused approach, ability to meet commitments and deadlines
· Demonstrates safety culture and feeds any safety concerns back into the business to drive positive change.
· Fluent English
· Software: Microsoft Office suite
Desirable
· Working level of French
· Knowledge of the ETC-C design code would be advantageous
· Software: Navisworks, TEKLA
Benefits
25 days annual leave per year rising by 1 day for every 2 years worked (max 30 days) + Bank Holidays
· 8% employer pension contribution with employee 1% contribution (salary sacrifice)
· Individual and family private health care
· Dental insurance for employees
· Cashplan – Level 2 cover
· Life assurance (4x salary)
· Employee assistance programme (EAP)
· Income Protection
· Professional Body Membership
· Tusker Electric car scheme (salary sacrifice)
· Cycle to Work scheme (salary sacrifice)
· Babbel – learn a new language
· Generous family leave – Maternity and paternity 6 months full pay and 6 months half pay.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We value and plan to continue to build on the benefits of our diverse working environment and recognise a priority to improve gender mix.
Everyone will be considered without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.
The post is restricted due to the nature of the role and the export control regulations which apply. All applicants will be subject to national security and export control vetting processes.
Job location
Job location
United Kingdom, Bristol
Job location (site)
Aztec West
Travel
No
Job family
Standard
Applicant criteria
Minimum level of education required
Master
Minimum level of experience required
Experienced
Employment level
Non cadre