Clean Energy Partnership Manager

About the job

Key information

Hinkley Point C is the largest and most complex construction project in Europe — the first new nuclear power station built in the UK for a generation — and UCS College Group is its leading skills delivery partner. That partnership, built over more than a decade of trusted collaboration with EDF Energy, its Tier 1 contractors and the wider supply chain, has grown into a portfolio of unique, business-critical services delivered at the very heart of a nationally significant infrastructure project.

At the centre of that portfolio sit the Centres of Excellence — the Mechanical, Electrical and Welding facilities for which UCS acts as Managing Agent on behalf of the client. These are not conventional college workshops. They are industrial-grade facilities operating to exacting client, regulatory and international quality standards, de-risking the HPC project and providing the skills and competency based services on which the project’s workforce mobilisation depends. Around them sits a wider set of services that are woven into the project’s onboarding, workforce assurance and compliance arrangements — services a college would not normally be asked to provide, entrusted to UCS because of the reputation we have earned.

The Clean Energy Partnership Manager is the person who makes all of this work, every day. This is our front face into the HPC project: the trusted, visible, always-on interface between the client, the Tier 1 contractors, their supply chains, third-party training providers and the full breadth of UCS College Group. The post-holder leads a small, dedicated team; sits within the project’s governance and working groups; holds a hot-desk within the project offices themselves; and carries personal accountability for ensuring that every service we deliver into HPC is safe, compliant, commercially sound and of a consistently exceptional standard.

This is a role of genuine consequence. The environment is fast-paced, high-profile and demanding and the post-holder must thrive in it: reading situations astutely, managing sensitive relationships, protecting and enhancing the reputations of both the College and the project, and spotting where UCS can add further value as the project’s needs evolve. Sitting within the TEC Engine — the coordinating heart of our South West Clean Energy Technical Excellence College — the role connects our flagship nuclear partnership into the College Group’s wider clean energy mission: ensuring that the capabilities, standards and relationships built through HPC contribute to the project’s lasting skills legacy across the region and the wider clean energy sector, and supporting the Assistant Director: Clean Energy TEC in the successful implementation of the TEC. While the HPC partnership will command the substantial majority of the post-holder’s time and focus, contribution to the wider TEC is a defining expectation of this role, not an optional extra: the expertise developed at the sharp end of Europe’s largest construction project is precisely what the TEC needs, and the post-holder will be expected to step across and apply it where it can make the difference. It offers an exceptional platform for someone who wants to operate at the meeting point of industry, education and national infrastructure.

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