EDF Energy - Hinkley Point C
Permit Controller (Sizewell C)
Leiston
Posted about 20 hours ago
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Permit Controller (Sizewell C)
Job Responsibilities
- Administer the permit-to-work process, permit register and supporting records for WJ-controlled areas.
- Review permit applications for completeness, scope, location, timing, interfaces and required controls.
- Confirm RAMS, isolations, competencies, access approvals and specialist authorisations before permit issue.
- Authorise or sign off permits only within written delegated authority and demonstrated competence.
- Coordinate simultaneous operations, conflicting work, area access and operational constraints with responsible managers.
- Brief permit recipients on conditions, boundaries, duration, suspension, emergency and handback requirements.
- Monitor active permits, changes and expiries and ensure extensions or reissues follow the agreed process.
- Confirm work areas are inspected, handed back and permits formally closed with required evidence.
- Stop or suspend permitted work when conditions change, controls fail or work departs from the agreed scope.
- Support audits, investigations, trend analysis and improvement of the permit-to-work system.
- Provide clear reporting on active permits, constraints, breaches, overdue closure and decisions required.
Other duties and responsibilities
- Work in accordance with:
- Wilson James policies, site procedures and training provided.
- Wilson James core values:
- We are fair and honest in all our activities.
- We treat each other with dignity and respect.
- We are responsible for all our actions and accountable for their consequences.
- We have an environment that enables and supports effective communication.
- We will continuously develop safe systems of work to ensure no one is placed at risk in our workplaces.
- Customer policies
- Carry out any other reasonable request as required by your Line Manager or the Customer
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Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant permit-to-work training and competence appropriate to the permits within the role's authority.
- CITB HS&E Operatives certificate, or project-accepted equivalent.
- Ability to satisfy all Sizewell C security, vetting and site access requirements.
- Experience in safety, operations, facilities, engineering or contractor control, or equivalent capability.
Desirable
- NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate, IOSH Managing Safely, or equivalent Excellent written and verbal communication and record-keeping skills.
- A relevant technical, engineering, facilities or health-and-safety qualification.
- A working knowledge of:
- A lot work, electrical, mechanical and intrusive-work permit controls
- Isolation, lock-out and tag-out principles
- CDM, contractor management and simultaneous operations
- Warehouse, industrial, logistics or nuclear-regulated environments
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Experience
- Practical experience operating or coordinating a permit-to-work system in an operational environment.
- Strong understanding of permit boundaries, isolations, simultaneous operations and control verification.
- Ability to review RAMS and recognise when specialist technical approval is required.
- Confidence to challenge, refuse, suspend or stop work when controls are inadequate.
- Excellent attention to detail and disciplined permit and evidence management.
- Strong communication skills with contractors, supervisors, specialists and operational managers.
- Ability to prioritise competing requests without compromising safety or operational control.
- Experience coordinating work in live warehouse, logistics, industrial or construction environments.
- Good IT skills for registers, workflows, reporting and controlled documentation.
- Sound judgement and understanding that seniority does not replace designated technical authority.
Additional Information
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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