Employment Type: Full Time
Employment Period:
Salary: competitive
Location:
Felixstowe, GB, IP10 0DD
Career Area: Engineering, Nuclear & Scientific
Head of Heatsink Delivery
Sizewell C’s business is to design, finance, construct, commission, operate, maintain, and eventually decommission the nuclear power plant and related infrastructure at Sizewell C in Suffolk. Overall, whilst the Company is in the construction phase, the Boards’ principal focus is on the development and construction of Sizewell C on time, on budget and to the highest quality and safety standards. The Company is maturing to meet all these requirements.
Sizewell C is economically regulated by OFGEM under the RAB model similar to other UK electricity distribution networks and Thames Tideway.
Sizewell C construction strategy is to replicate the design of Hinkley Point C, using the majority of the same supply chain, but innovating in the way it is delivered to achieve savings in time and cost of around 20%. The CCO will need to be guided by and incorporate lessons learned from the Hinkley Point C commercial delivery to achieve Sizewell C’s ambition.
Following Financial Completion and Revenue Commencement, Sizewell C is fully funded and is owned by; The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero representing HM Government, La Caisse, Centrica, EDF and Amber Infrastructure.
Shape Britain’s Energy Future with Sizewell C
Location: Leiston, Suffolk
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
Why Join Us?
We’re building the future. Sizewell C is a once-in-a-generation infrastructure project that will power Britain’s energy security and net-zero ambitions for decades to come. Following our recent Final Investment Decision, construction is fully greenlit. This is your chance to be part of the largest investment in homegrown clean energy in decades, delivering low-carbon electricity to 6 million homes for at least 60 years.
What’s in It for You
Salary: £105,000 per annum, depending on experience
Car Allowance: £6,900 per annum
Bonus: 10% annual incentive
Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution
Leave: 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
Your Impact
Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Heath Sink scope for SZC Units 1 & 2 within the Main Civil Works (MCW), acting as the Owner Participant in the Civil Works Alliance. Accountable for enabling safe, quality, on-time, on-cost delivery across Engineering Interfaces, Procurement, Construction, and Handover. Operates in a peer relationship with the CWA HSK Platform Delivery Lead and provides line leadership to SZC project managers and functional support.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery Leadership: Own delivery outcomes (SQEP: Safety, Quality, Environment, Performance) for the Heat Sink scope across Units 1 & 2; proactively unblock issues, optimise phasing, and drive schedule adherence.
Alliance Partnering: Operate as Owner Participant within CWA; collaborate as a peer with the CWA CI Platform Delivery Lead to drive integrated planning and decision-making.
Scope Integration: Manage interfaces with Engineering, CI Programme, PMO, Commercial, Quality, and Supply Chain to assure design maturity, constructability, and progressive assurance.
Risk & Change: Own risk register and change control for CI scope; ensure transparent escalation and evidence-based decision-making.
People Leadership: Lead a team of SZC Senior PMs/PMs and matrix functional support; set performance expectations and build delivery capability.
Commercial & Contracts: Support procurement strategies, alliance commercial mechanisms, adjustment events within the alliancing framework.
Stakeholder Management: Engage with CWP leadership and wider SZC stakeholders; prepare and present clear delivery reporting and readiness reviews.
Handover & Readiness: Ensure progressive assurance, completions, and documentary readiness to handover CI structures and components.
Contextual Information
The Sizewell C (SZC) construction programme is built around a technical and commercial business case that relies on intelligent replication of Hinkley Point C (HPC). This approach leverages mature design data, established engineering solutions, supply chain capability, and lessons learned from HPC to reduce FOAK complexity, accelerate delivery, and improve productivity.
EDF’s established UK nuclear capability is a critical contributor to this strategy, providing design, engineering, assurance, and construction expertise that underpins SZC’s ability to replicate, adapt and execute safely.
The SZC Civil Works Programme (CWP) comprises three major sub‑programmes delivered over a 10‑year period:
Early Works & Enabling
Main Civil & Ancillary Works
Marine & Tunnelling
The Main Civil Works (MCW) includes the Conventional Island (CI), Nuclear Island and Heat Sink Island scopes, with each scope delivered through integrated alliance teams combining SZC (Owner Participants) and Alliance Partners.
Key Stakeholders
The Heat Sink HoD must operate confidently and credibly in a complex, regulated stakeholder environment. Principal stakeholders include:
UK Government, including HM Treasury, DESNZ/BEIS, IPA
EDF (UK & France organisations) – engineering, assurance & delivery
Financial investors and institutions
UK Regulators (ONR, Environment Agency, local planning authorities)
Alliance partners within the Civil Works Alliance (CWA)
Local communities, authorities and representative groups
Responsible Designer (RD) and replicated HPC design teams
MEH and other programme leads (NI, CI, Heat Sink, Enabling, Marine & Tunnelling
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience
Track record of delivering projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment whilst ensuring high levels of safety, security, and environmental responsibility, ideally within the Nuclear Energy sector or similar regulated environment.
Demonstrate success in managing / developing:
Engineering design and field execution strategies for project delivery,
Procurement and management of complex commercial arrangements,
Multi-discipline EPCM projects,
Experience of managing / influencing contractors, consultants and other advisors throughout large and complex construction projects.
Control of costs; risk; schedule and change and proficient.
Experience of successfully engaging groups of stakeholders.
Able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management and facilitation. Proficient in the use of estimating scheduling, programming and risk tools.
Experience of managing contractors, consultants and other advisors throughout large and complex construction projects, in a regulated environment.
Experience of working within Alliances and Joint Ventures
Good presentation, influencing and facilitation skills. Excellent communication and organisational skills, able to develop relationships and maintain effective networks.
Strong numerical and analytical skills.
Degree and/or chartered status in an engineering, construction, project management or other related field.
Good knowledge and experience of CDM Regulations.
Knowledge and / or practitioner of Project Management with experience of applying either; APM body of knowledge and OGC's Prince 2.
Can demonstrate experience of managing project through the project lifecycle from concept to handover
Understanding the needs of nuclear quality and how nuclear quality is assured and controlled.
Behavioural Competences
Humility
Recognises the value brought from different cultures and experiences.
Open to other’s points of view and ideas, willing to debate and to compromise.
Positivity
Positively challenges poor quality and performance.
Identifies solutions at the lowest possible level.
Encourages tier 1s and others to bring new ideas forward.
Respect
Values the rules and environment in which we operate.
Gives and receives feedback with respect.
Embraces and engages with new people and ideas.
Solidarity
Operates as ‘One team’, working closely together and helping each other.
Empowers team – empowered teams always looking forward.
Shares responsibility for delivering the project outcomes.
Clarity
Communicates clearly and consistently.
Promotes collaboration and team alignment.
Clear and fast decision making.
Drives simplification at all levels.
To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least three of the past five years. Please note that export control compliance requirements apply to this role.
Join the team at Sizewell C. Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear .
The Sizewell C team is one of the most exciting and largest new megaprojects in the UK, whilst being at the forefront of the UK’s climate change agenda and energy policy. We have begun constructing a 3.2-gigawatt nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast in the East of England replicating, wherever possible, the design used for Hinkley Point C, another nuclear power station being built in Somerset.
When built, Sizewell C will be one of the largest power stations to operate in the UK. The power station will generate low carbon electricity for at least 60 years, supplying over 6 million homes and supporting around 7% of the UK’s current electricity needs.
Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear . We want Sizewell C to define what good leadership for the nuclear industry and British infrastructure looks like and deliver on it. We understand the feats of organisation, logistics, collaboration and imagination that building nuclear requires. We are building for the next generation for their home-grown energy, energy price stability and ultra-low carbon power in abundance. We also want to set the benchmark for maximising long-lasting social value as we build and demonstrate how smart collaboration can work for the benefit of communities – locally, regionally and nationally.
We are the first nuclear power station in the UK to be funded under the Regulated Asset Base funding model (RAB). Our largest shareholder is the UK Government, alongside equity partners La Caisse, Centrica, EDF and Amber Infrastructure.
Sizewell C operates within a complex and fast-moving stakeholder environment, engaging with a wide range of partners including government bodies, regulators, local communities, supply chain partners, and international collaborators. This makes Sizewell C a uniquely stimulating place to work — where navigating evolving priorities, balancing interests, and building trusted relationships is just as critical as technical excellence. For those who thrive in dynamic, multi-dimensional settings, it offers unmatched professional challenge and growth.
When joining Sizewell C, you may wonder why you are contacted by colleagues with an EDF email or see the EDF logo on portals that you access and/or documentation you receive; this is because we have partnered with EDF for the provision of a number of support services whilst we complete a successful transition out of the EDF group.
At Sizewell C we encourage and embrace diversity and how it can improve our experience and performance at work. It is a requirement that those who join us have the right to work in the UK. Whilst sponsorship may be a possibility that we can explore, we are fully committed to local recruitment where possible, and those already holding the right to work in the UK.
To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least three of the past five years.
By submitting an application to this role, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Sizewell C’s employee privacy policy and EDF's employee privacy policy . Just to let you know, EDF will be processing and sharing information about your application on behalf of Sizewell C.
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