Head of CI Delivery - Leiston, IP16 4EW

Head of CI Delivery - Leiston, IP16 4EW, United Kingdom

Shape Britains Energy Future with Sizewell C

Location: Leiston, Suffolk
Contract: Permanent, full-time.

Closing Date: 24th February 2026

Why Join Us?

Werebuilding thefuture. Sizewell C is a once-in-a-generation infrastructure project that will power Britains 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.

Whatsin 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 Conventional Island (CI) 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 CI 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 CI 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 Responsible Designer (RD), 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, claims/compensation 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.

EDFs established UK nuclear capability is a critical contributor to this strategy, providing design, engineering, assurance, and construction expertise that underpins SZCs ability to replicate, adapt and execute safely.

The SZC Civil Works Programme (CWP) comprises three major subprogrammes delivered over a 10year 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 CI 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 others 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 UKs 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 UKs 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 Cs 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.