Senior Construction Logistics Manager

Are you experienced in leading logistics operations for large-scale construction projects and managing cross-functional teams? Are you skilled at identifying and mitigating risks in construction logistics while ensuring seamless coordination with multiple stakeholders? Are you confident in driving operational excellence and implementing strategies to enhance logistics performance on complex projects?, In this leadership position, the Senior Construction Logistics Manager will guide and develop the Construction Logistics team, taking direct line management responsibility for a team that is currently being designed., You will lead teams in maintaining accurate Construction Logistics reporting, ensuring logistics meet performance standards and KPIs. Accountable for implementing logistics and project control techniques, you'll drive improvements to logistics systems within your scope. You will assess and represent changes in Programme budgets, analyse project trends to identify risks and opportunities, and champion governance and logistics standards. Additionally, you'll ensure all project documents, including sensitive nuclear information, are properly protected in accordance with EDF policies. Additional roles and responsibilities include:

• Drive an outcome-focused Construction Logistics framework, highlighting risks and interdependencies while aligning strategic and delivery-level reporting.
• Facilitate comprehensive review and challenge of project-level reporting, ensuring timely and accurate information on risks and interfaces, supporting decision-making at all levels.
• Lead the development and delivery of strategies while managing interdependencies to ensure prioritisation and timely decision-making.
• Champion best practices and continuous improvement across Construction Logistics by capturing and sharing operational insights and lessons learned.
• Review and validate information to provide clear visibility to key stakeholders, from local teams to senior executives.
• Analyse data to identify risks and make evidence-based decisions, using a systematic approach to drive Logistics strategy, especially under pressure.
• Deliver clear, concise insights to executives, using commercial and technical data to influence decisions and ensure effective Logistics management.
• Foster collaboration across departments to achieve successful outcomes aligned with HPC project values: Humility, Positivity, Respect, Solidarity, and Clarity.
• Apply project controls principles, leading cross-functional teams to drive effective, outcome-based sessions.
• Oversee schedule and cost updates due to forecasting changes, working with teams to understand risk impacts and mitigation strategies.
• Lead, coach, and support the Construction Logistics team, ensuring the use of standardised processes and high-quality delivery.
Who you are With strong leadership and a deep understanding of Logistics management, you navigate complex contract types like NEC and FIDIC. You apply risk analysis techniques with excellent analytical and numerical skills, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail. Your ability to build relationships, communicate effectively at all levels, and provide actionable reports supports strategic decision-making. You understand how changes impact project delivery and use critical thinking to manage those effects. With expertise in estimating, scheduling, change management, and risk management, you drive successful project outcomes. Additional requirements for this role include:
• Extensive expertise in construction and logistics operations, offering valuable insights into operational needs.
  
  Proven experience in logistics planning and operations, particularly within major capital projects in construction or related industries.
• Skilled in delivering precise project insights to drive evidence-based decisions, leveraging commercial and technical data to influence outcomes and manage construction logistics effectively.
• Strong understanding of how decisions and changes impact project risk profiles and logistics delivery.
• Exceptional analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
• Clear and concise communicator, adept at simplifying complex issues for both technical and non-technical senior audiences.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Collaborative approach to working across teams and organisational boundaries to achieve shared goals.
You should hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, ideally with logistics-specific qualifications. Senior-level expertise in leading logistics teams within complex, regulated industries (e.g., nuclear, aerospace, or large infrastructure) is essential, along with experience in integration management and stakeholder engagement. A health and safety qualification is required. Proficiency in logistics frameworks, technology solutions, and major project delivery, coupled with proven leadership and team empowerment skills, is vital.

Alongside a salary range of £70,000 - £80,000 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal. We're talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans. At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated. Here, we do right by each other and everyone's welcome. We're on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We'd like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments. We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we support you to pursue a career that's unique to you. Because success is personal.