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Organisational Capability LeadSizewell C

Location: London, Suffolk, Bristol or Manchester, with travel to other offices and sites.
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
Closing Date: Sunday 26th July 2026

What’s in It for You

• Salary: £66,000 per annum, depending on experience
• Bonus: 5% annual incentive
• Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution
• Leave: 28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Overview

The purpose of this role is to lead Sizewell C’s Nuclear Licence Condition (LC 36) Organisational Capability arrangements, ensuring the organisation maintains the structures, competencies and staffing levels required to safely deliver nuclear safety and environmental management activities. The postholder oversees and maintains the Nuclear and Environmental Baseline (NBEB) and leads the end-to-end LC36 Management of Organisational Change (MoC) process, ensuring that organisational changes with potential safety impact are consistently well evidenced, assessed and governed.

The position reports to the Senior Organisational Capability Manager in the People Strategy & Governance Function and provides day-to-day leadership to the Organisational Capability Team, setting expectations for quality, compliance and delivery across all LC36 processes. It also supports and coaches senior leaders on the application of Organisational Capability arrangements, strengthening organisational governance and embedding capability discipline across the project.

Principal Accountabilities, Activities and Decisions

• Lead and manage the Organisational Capability Team, providing clear day-to-day direction, prioritisation, quality assurance, and ongoing capability development.
• Hold accountability for the end-to-end LC36 Management of Organisational Change (MoC) process, ensuring all organisational changes are fully documented, robustly assessed, appropriately approved, and accurately recorded.
• Provide expert coaching, guidance, and constructive challenge to Senior Leaders to support the development of high-quality MoC submissions, with clear rationale, impacts, risks, and mitigations.
• Oversee, maintain, and periodically review the Nuclear and Environmental Baseline (NBEB), ensuring the baseline, associated processes, and annual NBEB Statement remain accurate, evidence-based, and aligned with organisational milestones.
• Lead NBEB vulnerability assessment activities to shape and manage the Organisational Capability risk profile, identifying capability gaps and organisational vulnerabilities and ensuring appropriate mitigations are developed and implemented.
• Manage Organisational Capability LC36 self-assessment and audit activities, including preparation of evidence, analysis of findings, and contribution to improvement actions that strengthen compliance and governance.
• Oversee the review and interpretation of Organisational Capability reporting, identifying trends, emerging issues, and risks, and influencing senior leaders to implement remedial and preventative actions that strengthen governance and NBEB compliance.
• Support the LC36 Manager in Organisational Capability contributions to Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and Environment Agency (EA) regulatory engagements, ensuring SZC presents clear, accurate, and evidence-based information demonstrating that arrangements are fit for purpose and effectively implemented.
• Contribute to Organisational Capability governance forums and committees by preparing high-quality evidence, updates, and insights, directly supporting and advising Committee Chairs to facilitate well-informed decision-making aligned with Organisational Capability arrangements.
• Lead the delivery of Organisational Capability training and awareness activities, equipping colleagues with the understanding and skills required to apply OC requirements consistently and confidently across SZC.
• Drive continuous improvement of Organisational Capability processes and arrangements, ensuring they remain proportionate, effective, and responsive to the evolving maturity and needs of the project.
• Provide Organisational Capability insight to strategic workforce planning, including analysis of critical skills, supply and demand forecasts, and capability risks, contributing to the wider resource strategy.
• Collaborate effectively with stakeholders across the People Function and coordinate SZC’s contribution to cross-licensee and cross-industry Organisational Capability activities, ensuring insights, data, and resourcing pipeline considerations are accurately represented in broader industry planning and capability discussions.