Sizewell C
Legal Counsel (Land)
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Legal Counsel (Land)
Location: Based in Suffolk, London, Manchester with travel to Suffolk as required.
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
Salary: Competitive dependant on experience, plus benefits
Benefits include:
- Annual Leave: 28 days per annum, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service, plus bank holidays.
- Opportunity to purchase extra holiday.
- Bonus: Up to 5% annual bonus.
- Pension Contributions: Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with up to 7.5% employee contribution and 15% employer contribution.
- Access to benefits portal where additional benefits can be purchased such as private healthcare, discounted gym memberships, electric car schemes, etc.
Closing Date: Monday 5th October 2026
About the Role
You will provide strategic and practical legal advice on all land matters for the Sizewell C nuclear new build project. You will also support Sizewell C in delivering against its planning requirements, advising on compliance with the terms of its DCO, DoO and any other relevant planning permissions, working closely with the planning legal counsel.
You will work closely with internal stakeholders (particularly the land, planning, and delivery teams), external advisors, government bodies, and landowners to support the timely, efficient, and compliant delivery of the project.
The role is central to securing, managing, and protecting the land rights required for one of the UK’s largest and most complex infrastructure developments. The role sits within the Sizewell C legal team, which supports all areas of the Sizewell C project.
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About You
We are looking for a qualified solicitor or barrister (England & Wales) with significant post-qualification experience in planning, infrastructure, property, or environmental law.
You will also have:
- Strong experience advising on major infrastructure, energy, or development projects
- Demonstrable experience in land acquisition, property transactions, and compulsory purchase
- Strong understanding of UK planning and consenting regimes, including DCO processes
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
- The ability to provide pragmatic, solutions-focused legal advice in a fast-paced environment
- Experience working collaboratively across multidisciplinary project teams
Why Join Us?
- Be part of one of the most important low-carbon energy projects in the UK.
- Work in a mission-driven environment that values innovation, integrity, and long-term sustainability.
- Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career development.
- Flexible and hybrid working options.
Key Competencies
Behavioural Competences
Humility
- Recognise the value brought from different cultures and experiences.
- Be open to others’ points of view and ideas, be willing to debate and to compromise.
Positivity
- Positively challenge poor quality and performance.
- Identify solutions at the lowest possible level.
- Encourage tier 1s and others to bring new ideas forward.
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Respect
- Value the rules and environment in which we operate.
- Give and receive feedback with respect.
- Embrace and engage with new people and ideas.
Solidarity
- One team, working closely together and helping each other.
- Empowered teams always looking forward.
- Shared responsibility for delivering the project outcomes.
Clarity
- Communicate clearly and consistently.
- Promote collaboration and team alignment.
- Clearer and faster decision-making.
- Drive simplification at all levels.
If this sounds like the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today.
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.
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