 In July this year we published our PPP strategy which outlines our roadmap for the next five years and what we will deliver as a team.
To deliver our strategy we recognised that we needed to further enhance our PPP Services function to support our current and future projects. At this point, PPP Services became Project Services.
The Project Services team is the engine room of the PPP model, made up of around 200 experts across a range of disciplines, embedding the PPP way into the full lifecycle of programme and project delivery.
Project Services team members are integral to keeping the programme moving, from resourcing and recruitment, to EHSSQ, commercial, digital, supply chain, engineering, commissioning, benefits, social impact, sustainability and stakeholder engagement.
Leanne Huitson, Programme Director Project Services, said:
“Since the publication of our strategy we have been refining Project Services so that it is in the best shape to enable excellent project delivery, now and for the future pipeline, as well as enabling the longer-term benefits of our PPP partnership.
“We have simplified the way it is structured to integrate with our projects, so the value of services is added in the right places, at the right time throughout the project lifecycle. So far, we have been building solid foundations, working to address some of our key risks and building on our strategy with clearer, measurable targets.”
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The following enhancements to Project Services have been established in recent months:
- An enhanced structure to support projects.
- Clearer management of objectives and priorities.
- Our first Integrator Steering Group.
The Integrator Steering Group is a fully integrated partnership group of PPP decision-makers, who have a vested interest in realising the long-term benefits of the model and delivering in line with our strategy.
The group includes experts and leaders from projects, project services, functions and our client, and it will be accountable for enabling improvements to project delivery across all areas, short, medium and long-term, that add value to the partnership in line with our strategy and implementation plan.
How we are set up
The Project Services team within PPP exists to underpin our projects with high quality, industry leading services and best practice and to build a programme from what would otherwise be a collection of projects. Responsibilities vary from benchmarking industry norms, to assessing viability to deliver future projects, leading PPP assurance, supporting the wider enterprise, setting standards, identifying and managing the most critical programme risks and delivering programme wide social value and sustainability strategy and activity.
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This structure creates three ‘parts’ of the Services team – one part delivering services that support across the full programme, one part delivering capability into the projects of today and tomorrow, and the final part looking at the longer-term transformation and change activity we need to deliver to maximise our performance.
To bolster the support Services provides to our programme and projects, we will be introducing some new key roles.
Leanne added:
“To enable and support our next steps we will be welcoming new colleagues in key roles over the coming months.
“We will be running a ‘meet the team’ series introducing our capabilities and teams to explain who we are, what we are here for and how we can support you.”
Welcoming our new Head of Project Services - Danielle Slattery
We are delighted to welcome Danielle Slattery as our new Head of Project Services, joining our partnership through KBR and supporting our Programme Director Project Services, and Head of Lot 1, Leanne Huitson. Danielle lives in the north-west and begins her new role immediately.
Joining us from her previous role as Operations Director for Mace, Danielle brings a wealth of programme and business management expertise from the nuclear sector including from within Sellafield and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) where she held a number of key roles within both programmes and operations.
On her appointment, Danielle said:
“I think the future for PPP, as outlined in the strategy, makes this a really exciting time to join the team. PPP provides the opportunity to not just deliver better outcomes for our client but our communities as a whole and I’m really looking forward to being part of the journey.
“I believe the key to realising the benefits from PPP comes from the strength of the people we have delivering real value across our projects, supporting services and wider client teams. With that in mind, I hope to meet as many people as possible over the coming weeks and look forward to learning about all the exciting activities happening across all the PPP workstreams.
“If you see me, please do come and say hello!”
Delivery highlights this year
While these enhancements were being made, Project Services continued to enable some key achievements and milestones in 2023:
- We launched our partnership strategy and introduced our new ‘one team’ PPP identity which has been embraced by everyone.
- Growing the PPP team through recruitment and resourcing, and we now employ around 1,600 amazing people who are supporting our mission at Sellafield.
- We've welcomed more supply chain partners and received praise from stakeholders like the government's Infrastructure and Projects Authority.
- Throughout the year our safety energy has remained consistently above 95% and we launched a number of collaborative campaigns through Sellafield’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing Hub, including ‘Boots On, Switch On’ to further promote alertness, whether you’re office based or working on site.
- More than 1 out of 10 employees on PPP are ‘early talent’.
- We launched a new Project Controls Academy to address critical skills shortages and grow our own.
- We achieved accreditation with the National Centre for Diversity as an Investor in Diversity, a first for nuclear and for a partnership.
- We now work with around 200 suppliers from across the UK, with 40% based in the north-west region. Almost 70% of our suppliers are SMEs.
- Our reading programme saw over 100 volunteers from across our partnership and supply chain family step up to support primary school-age children in West Cumbria.
- We continue to provide value to the taxpayer with £1.5 billion of benefits identified, of which £1.1 billion has been validated, and £200 million delivered and assured.
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