Sizewell C
Transverse Technical Engineering Manager
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Sizewell C - Technical Engineering Manager – Transverse
Position: Technical Engineering Manager – Transverse
Location: London (minimum 2 days per week in the office), with occasional travel to Bristol as required
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Salary: £75,000 - £85,000 depending on experience, plus benefits
Benefits include:
- Annual Leave: 28 days per annum, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service, plus bank holidays
- Bonus: 5% annual bonus
- Pension Contributions: Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with up to 7.5% employee contribution, 15% employer contribution
- Life Assurance: Up to 8 x salary
Closing Date: 23rd September 2026
Role Overview
As a Transverse Technical Engineering Manager, you will provide technical leadership across key Civil Works Programme scopes, overseeing design integration, technical assurance, and engineering governance from requirements definition through to design acceptance. Working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, you will play a critical role in ensuring complex, multi-disciplinary designs are coordinated, buildable, and ready for delivery.
Role Responsibilities
- Lead the technical management of transverse civil engineering scope across the Civil Works Programme.
- Define, develop, and validate technical requirements and specifications.
- Manage technical change, open points, and configuration control processes.
- Drive design assurance activities and support acceptance of design deliverables.
- Coordinate technical interfaces across Civil Works, Site Establishment, and wider SZC programmes.
- Ensure design deliverables are fully integrated, coordinated, and aligned to programme requirements.
- Identify and manage technical risks, ensuring effective mitigation strategies are in place.
- Support technical governance forums and stakeholder reviews.
- Work closely with Design Authority, Responsible Designer, subject matter experts, and delivery teams.
- Ensure buildability, constructability, and lifecycle considerations are embedded within design solutions.
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About You
Essential
- Proven experience leading complex civil and/or structural engineering designs through concept, detailed design, and construction.
- Experience managing and coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams, technical suppliers, and key stakeholders.
- Strong technical knowledge of heavy civil engineering structures, including reinforced concrete and structural steel, and/or external works such as drainage, utilities, and earthworks.
- Experience delivering technical leadership within major infrastructure, construction, or engineering projects.
- Strong understanding of design integration, technical assurance, engineering governance, and change control processes.
- Proven ability to manage technical risks, resolve engineering challenges, and drive design delivery.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
Desirable
- Experience within the nuclear sector or other highly regulated industries.
- Knowledge of nuclear design assurance, configuration management, and governance processes.
- Experience working on large-scale infrastructure programmes such as Hinkley Point C, Sizewell C, or equivalent.
Qualifications & Skills
Essential
- Degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Chartered Engineer status (MICE, MIStructE, or equivalent) or actively working towards chartership.
- Strong understanding of design management, technical assurance, and engineering governance.
- Knowledge of reinforced concrete, structural steel, civil infrastructure, or external works design.
- Experience managing technical risk, change control, and design integration activities.
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Desirable
- Experience leading the technical delivery of large, complex design packages.
- Understanding of nuclear safety-related structures, systems, and components.
- Familiarity with UK design standards, CDM regulations, and construction methodologies.
- Experience operating within highly regulated environments with demanding quality and assurance requirements.
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 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.
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.
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