Delivery Project Manager – Heavy Civils (Sizewell C)
Delivery Project Manager- Heavy Civils Infrastructure
Location: Sizewell C, Leiston, Suffolk (minimum 3 days a week onsite).
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
Salary: £75,000- £85,000 depending on experience, plus benefits.
Benefits
- 5% CIP bonus
- 28 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Contributory pension of up to 7.5% employee / up to 15% employer
- Ongoing professional development
- Other lifestyle benefits
Closing date: Thursday 4th June 2026.
About the Role
Join Sizewell C as a Project Manager – Civils, delivering major heavy‑civils work packages within one of the UK’s most significant low‑carbon infrastructure projects. Reporting to a Senior Project Manager, you will lead full lifecycle delivery: engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning ensuring work is completed safely, on schedule, to budget, and to the highest quality standards.
Project leverages the Civil Works Alliance (CWA) comprising Sizewell C, Bouygues, Laing O’Rourke and Balfour Beatty, operating under the Australian Project Alliance Agreement (PAA) contract. The CWA will deliver the Civils Programme over a 10‑year period to support the MEH erection across Nuclear, Conventional and Heat Sink islands.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver civils work packages valued between £50m – £200m across Nuclear, Conventional and Heat Sink islands.
- Oversee enabling works including earthworks, sea defences, diaphragm walling, dewatering, and excavation.
- Support major deliverables such as Commencement of dewatering, Big Dig and Beach Landing Facility construction.
- Manage interfaces across design, engineering, construction, and programme teams.
- Lead safety culture, incident investigations, risk reviews, and compliance with permits and consents.
- Ensure quality assurance, audits, NCR/FCR processes, and lessons learned.
- Monitor productivity, programme performance and progress reporting.
- Manage commercial performance including budgets, forecasting, subcontractor management, TOCs, and risk schedules.
- Support replication of HPC design and adoption of best practice to maximise productivity.
Qualifications
- Degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline.
- APM PMQ, PRINCE2, or equivalent qualification.
- Valid CSCS card.
- Proven experience delivering major civil engineering projects in complex, safety‑critical environments.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to lead teams, manage interfaces, and drive multidisciplinary delivery.
- Confident decision‑maker with a collaborative, solution‑focused approach.
- Strong understanding of H&S legislation and CDM regulations.
- Excellent organisational, coordination and communication skills.
- Competent user of project management tools and Microsoft Office.
- Experience in civil engineering, infrastructure, construction, geotechnical or earthworks, and major project delivery.
- Knowledge of NEC contracts.
- Experience in the nuclear industry.
- Chartered Engineer or Chartered Project Manager.
- Experience in geotechnical or major civils programme management.
- Strong background in design management, procurement and cost/schedule/risk control.
Additional Information
- Security clearance required.
- Role involves working across site, office, and field environments in the Leiston area.
- Typical tools/systems include Microsoft Office, CEMAR, and APM‑aligned project management tools.
For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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