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Investigation Lead Opportunity with the Civil Works Alliance (CWA), Supporting Sizewell C

As part of the CWA (Civil Works Alliance), you will support the building of Sizewell C. Sizewell C will be a 3.2-gigawatt power station generating low-carbon electricity for around 6 million homes and will play a key role in our energy future, supplying reliable, clean electricity for at least 60 years. This role will be within the CWA Wide Section.

What will you do?

• To enable the delivery, high-quality investigations, with consistent alignment with the Investigation Process.
• To provide expert guidance and oversight to operational teams and contractors, ensuring investigations are undertaken effectively, proportionately, and in line with legal, business, and project requirements.
• To assure the quality, robustness, and completion of investigation outputs, including the tracking of actions to closure and that these actions are effectively embedded, sustained and delivering against their intent.

Principal Accountabilities, Activities and Decisions

• Participate, support and assist in the investigation of health and safety incidents for the CWA.
• Provide expert, informed advice on evidence collection, cause analysis and the application of preventative.
• Drive consistent application of the agreed process, ensuring all investigations are conducted in a structured, thorough and compliant manner, proportionate to their level of risk.
• Provide specialist advice and coaching to operational teams, supporting the delivery off high-quality investigation reports.
• Enable the delivery of training in house or from external providers where required to upskill those leading and participating in investigations.
• Support the development and review of investigation procedures and processes.
• Monitor legislation, client, principal contractor and parent companies for any changes that impact our approach to investigation our processes and procedures.
• Review and assure the quality of investigation reports, ensuring findings are evidence-based, causal factors are clearly identified, and actions are appropriate, proportionate and aligned to preventing recurrence.
• Ensure all investigation actions are clearly defined, allocated and tracked through to completion, with effective follow-up to verify implementation and effectiveness.
• Carry out ongoing assurance activities (audits, reviews, site engagement) to confirm that investigation learnings and actions are embedded, sustained and delivering measurable improvement.
• Facilitate sharing of investigation outcomes, lessons learned and best practice across the project and wider stakeholders to drive continuous improvement in safety performance.
• Ensure that lessons learned from monitoring, events, other projects and or from the Alliance parent companies are communicated and adopted by the project teams.
• Able to support or deliver training and advisory sessions to operational teams and our contractors.
• Contribute to investigation governance processes, ensuring compliance with reporting standards, data quality requirements and timely completion within our systems.
• Support the implementation of the Nuclear Safety message during engagements with the whole CWA team.