Investigation Lead

Help Shape the UK's Energy Future 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.

Role Overview

The following information aims to provide potential candidates with a better understanding of the requirements for this role.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Investigations: Enable the delivery of high-quality investigations, with consistent alignment with the Investigation Process.
• Expert Guidance: 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.
• Quality Assurance: 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.
• Training and Development: Enable the delivery of training in-house or from external providers where required to upskill those leading and participating in investigations.
• Process Improvement: Support the development and review of investigation procedures and processes.
• Compliance Monitoring: Monitor legislation, client, principal contractor, and parent companies for any changes that impact our approach to investigation processes and procedures.
• Report Quality: 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.
• Action Tracking: Ensure all investigation actions are clearly defined, allocated, and tracked through to completion, with effective follow-up to verify implementation and effectiveness.
• Continuous Improvement: Carry out ongoing assurance activities (audits, reviews, site engagement) to confirm that investigation learnings and actions are embedded, sustained, and delivering measurable improvement.
• Knowledge Sharing: Facilitate sharing of investigation outcomes, lessons learned, and best practice across the project and wider stakeholders to drive continuous improvement in safety performance.
• Lessons Learned: Ensure that lessons learned from monitoring, events, other projects, and the Alliance parent companies are communicated and adopted by the project teams.
• Training Support: Able to support or deliver training and advisory sessions to operational teams and contractors.
• Compliance: Contribute to investigation governance processes, ensuring compliance with reporting standards, data quality requirements, and timely completion within our systems.
• Nuclear Safety: Support the implementation of the Nuclear Safety message during engagements with the whole CWA team.