Project Lead - Backfill
Organisation Information:
Bouygues Travaux Publics (TP) and Laing O’Rourke, two of Europe’s most dynamic engineering and construction specialists, are working together in a joint venture named BYLOR to deliver the main civil engineering works at Hinkley Point C (HPC) worth over £2.8 billion.
Bylor are pushing the boundaries of innovation and modern technology while delivering high quality construction on a massive scale. Bylor have already broken the UK record for the largest continuous concrete pour of 9,000m3 of concrete.
This is great opportunity to be part of a dynamic organisation that is challenging the industry and making history.
Purpose of the role:
Leads all pre‑construction and delivery activities for the backfill scope, ensuring rigorous technical preparation, planning, coordination, and compliance before construction begins.
Key responsibilities and specific accountabilities
- Collaborates with the Client's consultant, Alliance design teams, and Engineering function to shape permanent and temporary works designs that meet safety, sustainability, buildability, and quality requirements.
- Provides expert guidance to the excavation and backfill technical team, ensuring designs, temporary works, and technical solutions are robust, coordinated, and fit for purpose.
- Manages the Technical Lead and oversees technical support to the development of backfill designs by the Responsible Designer, temporary works for ramps, accesses, and retaining structures, material quality control, monitoring schemes, and site trials.
- Owns and updates the 4D backfill model, ensuring construction rates, assumptions, sequencing, and methods are valid, integrated, and approved by CWP and RD.
- Contributes technical judgement within the Backfill Steering Group, supporting decisions on material types, suitability, constructability, and pragmatic solutions.
- Leads cost estimation activities with Alliance estimators and the TOC Manager, contributing to the TOC process and ensuring planning and execution strategies are accurate and achievable.
- Monitors budgets throughout delivery, investigates variances, identifies mitigation measures, and escalates issues where required.
- Develops subcontract scopes of work, compiles required documentation, and leads tendering activities, including technical evaluations and clarification processes.
- Participates in subcontractor negotiations with the Alliance Purchaser and supports final contract formation with the Alliance Commercial team.
- Defines the delivery strategy for the backfill package during pre‑construction and authors the Project Execution Plan, supporting the TOC Manager in securing Notice to Proceed.
- Establishes and integrates the logistics strategy into overall delivery planning.
- Leads delivery performance, ensuring works are executed safely, on programme, to budget, and in compliance with business, technical, and quality standards.
- Tracks progress against milestones, deadlines, and budgets, providing reporting and analysis to key Alliance stakeholders.
- Reviews and authorises subcontractor and supplier payment applications.
- Ensures appropriate resource levels—technical, operational, and logistical—are provided to meet delivery demands.
- Works with the CWA Head of Quality to determine the appropriate inspection structure and manages the CWA quality inspection team on day‑to‑day issues, escalating problems as needed.
- Identifies, manages, and resolves issues and risks within the package; updates budgets and forecasts and escalates concerns where necessary.
- Ensures construction schedules are developed, maintained, and aligned with programme requirements.
- Ensures all List of Deliverables (LOD / MIDTP / TIDP) related to the scope are completed and compliant.
- Embeds lessons learned and knowledge capture as part of routine delivery processes.
- Ensures all contractual obligations are met and manages potential compensation events in collaboration with Alliance Commercial.
- Manages interfaces with adjacent works and coordinating activities across earthworks, temporary works, and construction of neighbouring structures to ensure cohesive, conflict‑free delivery
- Experience in Demolition
- Strong experience in logistic management
Key Skills & Competencies
Essential:
• Expertise in excavating and backfill activities on site
• Leading a large project team on large civil engineering projects
• Working transversely with wider project teams to achieve shared desired outcomes
• NEC4 SC and ECC contract experience
• Member of APM, PMI or similar project management bodies
Desirable:
• Experience working in Alliances/Joint Ventures within construction
• SMSTS or IOSH Managing safety
Additional Information:
All positions with Bylor are employed directly with either Laing O’Rourke or Bouygues Travaux Public and include competitive salaries, private medical insurance, company pension schemes and annual holiday allowance. Some grades will also include a company car allowance.
Unless stated otherwise all positions are based at Hinkley Point C in Somerset.
Somerset boasts beautiful English countryside, an attractive coastline, interesting towns and villages along with easy access to the M5 and within proximity to the cities of Bristol and Exeter.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at BYLOR.