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Project Manager Sizewell C
Location: London (Occasional Ipswich/Bristol/Site travel)
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
Closing Date: Monday 20th July 2026
What’s in It for You
- Salary: Circa £68,000 depending on experience.
- Bonus: 5% annual incentive
- Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution
- Leave: 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
Overview
As PM you will work as part of the The Civil Works Programme, which comprises a series of projects that will be delivered over a 10-year period. Each element of the scope has been assigned to a combination of participants that will be responsible and accountable for the delivery.
The Civils Programme will deliver the Sizewell C Civil Engineering scope to support the MEH erection in the Nuclear, Conventional and Heat Sink islands.
The Civil Works Programme is responsible for delivering:
- Enabling and Earthworks: sea defences, access facilities, civil engineering work to support site establishment, diaphragm walling around the nuclear plant footprint, dewatering, excavation and earthworks.
- Tunnelling and Marine: beach landing facility, jetty, shafts and intake and outfall tunnels for the nuclear plant cooling systems.
- Main civil engineering: technical galleries, cooling system pipework, foundation base slab and over 70 large buildings for the nuclear plant.
To successfully deliver the Programme requires excellent coordination and integration with the Site Delivery, Site Operations, and Mechanical / Electrical / Heating (MEH) Alliance.
The execution strategy involves:
- Maximising replication of HPC design to limit the extent of First of a Kind design to site-specific elements.
- Introduction and establishment of a programme management structure.
- Using learning from the HPC project to optimise and simplify working practices and processes to maximise site productivity.
- Intelligent replication of the HPC supply chain.
- Joint commitment to truly collaborative working, and an Alliance delivery and commercial model that enables this.
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Principal Accountabilities, Activities and Decisions
As Project Manager your role will:
- Lead the interface with Engineering and Technical (design) to ensure timely delivery of Design, as well as incorporation of Learning from HPC, and integration of SZC Modern methods of Construction
- Facilitate the technical instruction of changes with various design stakeholders, and reach out to back-office design entities
- Be responsible for the timely delivery of engineering studies by the RD or by key contractors and for ensuring they meet the needs of the SZC project
- Drive the implementation of SZC site-specific design changes into the design deliverables in their programme, including contract specifications to enable robust pricing
- Manage internal interfaces (between contracts and systems) and external interfaces (between programme scopes) to ensure a coordinated approach to design and delivery
- Manage early engagement with stakeholders (including equipment suppliers, designers and CWA) to identify opportunities and changes
- Manage the technical elements of the procurement, delivery and methodology for Civil Works
- Ensure that lessons-learnt and knowledge-capture are practiced as business as usual
- Develop and implement strategies and plans in line with the overall programme execution plan (PEP)
- Define the work scope to be delivered within the contract or package of work and the interfaces to the other elements of the programme
- Drive the delivery of the contract or package activities to ensure they are delivered safely, on time, to budget, meeting business & technical requirements
- Ensure that contract or package contractual requirements are fulfilled
- Driving the implementation of SZC site-specific design changes
Nuclear Safety Accountabilities
This Post may have nuclear safety and environmental responsibilities (“roles”) which could have an impact on nuclear safety or environmental protection through the activities that they perform. These are detailed in the Nuclear and Environmental Baseline.
Dimensions
- Interaction with EPR-E and with SZC Site Construction Team.
- The principles of a matrix organisation will apply
- Lead change and optimization through Change Governance of SZCLOD 0 (review and assure) deliverables in the scope of technical Nuclear Island
- Actively manage interface with Give/Get parties
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Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience
Ideally Degree and Chartered status in Project management, Construction, Civil engineering, or other relevant discipline.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Project Management and working knowledge and management experience of construction activities.
- Demonstrated technical knowledge in Civil Construction and Design
- Demonstrated experience of managing major projects from concept to handover, throughout the project lifecycle within a technically complex and dynamic environment whilst ensuring high levels of safety, security, and environmental responsibility.
- Demonstrate success coordinating multi-disciplinary design/procurement work and driving design/procurement teams to deliver on time
Desirable:
- Previous engineering or project management experience in the nuclear industry.
- Chartered Engineer qualification.
- Formal project management qualification.
- Direct experience of procuring equipment or installation contracts for nuclear power stations
- Good understanding of the complexity of major projects, including interface management between scope areas
- Experience of the pre-tender and tender stages of procuring contracts for the design, manufacturing and/or installation of industrial equipment
- Excellent communication skills in client-facing and contractor-facing situations
- Manage engineers, consultants and other advisors throughout large and complex projects
- Demonstrate specific success in managing / developing:
- Engineering design, contract and field execution strategies for project delivery.
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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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