Survey Lead (Topographical surveying) - Leiston, IP16

Location: Sizewell C, Leiston, Suffolk (minimum 3 days a week onsite with occasional weekends).

Contract: Permanent, full-time.

Salary: Competitive depending on experience plus benefits.

Benefits:

• 10% CIP bonus
• 28 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Contributory pension of up to 7.5% employee / up to 15% employer
• Life Assurance - eight times of annual salary.
• Ongoing professional development
• Other lifestyle benefits

Closing date: Sunday 25 January 2026.

Are you a seasoned Survey Lead ready to drive a unified, high-performing approach to topographical surveying? Sizewell C is seeking a dynamic professional to lead our newly established centralized survey team.

About the Role

As Survey Lead, you’ll manage and implement the centralized Sizewell C Survey Team, ensuring consistent, high-quality survey services across all phases of this nationally significant infrastructure project. You’ll head up ‘Team Survey’ – a core group overseeing topographical surveying across multiple contracts and workforces. You’ll lead Senior Area Surveyors across three key workstreams:

• Survey Control Team
• Core Surveying Team
• Specialist Survey Teams (including tunnelling, backfill, laser scanning, completion surveys, off-site surveys, and BIM)

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the SZC Survey Strategy and Task Information Delivery Plans (TIDPs)
• Oversee all land and aerial survey operations, including control networks and monitoring
• Ensure compliance with safety, legal, and regulatory standards (ONR, LC12, LC19)
• Manage survey data quality, equipment calibration, and as-built records
• Coordinate with contractors, stakeholders, and regulators
• Lead recruitment, training, and performance management
• Approve survey methods, calculations, and reports
• Conduct audits and manage non-conformances
• Promote a strong safety and quality culture

Tools & Technologies used:

• Survey data management and processing tools
• Geospatial data systems (e.g., GIS)
• Project CDE platforms
• Survey Control Networks (PSN, SSN, LSN, RSN)

What We’re Looking For

Essential:

• Proven leadership in managing teams in large-scale infrastructure survey operations
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Analytical mindset with problem-solving capabilities
• Degree in Surveying, Geomatics, or related field
• Chartered status (RICS or CICES)
• Proficiency in survey software and digital tools

Desirable:

• Experience with UAV/drone survey integration
• Familiarity with nuclear or regulated infrastructure projects
• Knowledge of digital construction and geospatial data systems
• Professionals from Land/Building Surveying, Geomatics, or Civil Engineering sectors are encouraged to apply.

Why Join Sizewell C?

• Be part of a transformative project supporting the UK’s net-zero goals
• Work alongside industry leaders and government stakeholders
• Enjoy career-defining opportunities in a collaborative, innovative environment
• Receive a competitive salary and excellent benefits

Are you ready to make an Impact? If you’re driven by purpose and ready to contribute to one of the UK’s most ambitious infrastructure projects, we want to hear from you. Let’s build a cleaner, greener future together. Apply now!

Additional Information

Join the team at Sizewell C. Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear. The Sizewell C team is one of the most exciting and largest new megaprojects in the UK, whilst being at the forefront of the UK’s climate change agenda and energy policy. We have begun constructing a 3.2-gigawatt nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast in the East of England replicating, wherever possible, the design used for Hinkley Point C, another nuclear power station being built in Somerset. When built, Sizewell C will be one of the largest power stations to operate in the UK. The power station will generate low carbon electricity for at least 60 years, supplying over 6 million homes and supporting around 7% of the UK’s current electricity needs.

Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear. We want Sizewell C to define what good leadership for the nuclear industry and British infrastructure looks like and deliver on it. We understand the feats of organisation, logistics, collaboration and imagination that building nuclear requires. We are building for the next generation for their home-grown energy, energy price stability and ultra-low carbon power in abundance. We also want to set the benchmark for maximising long-lasting social value as we build and demonstrate how smart collaboration can work for the benefit of communities – locally, regionally and nationally.

We are the first nuclear power station in the UK to be funded under the Regulated Asset Base funding model (RAB). Our largest shareholder is the UK Government, alongside equity partners La Caisse, Centrica, EDF and Amber Infrastructure. Sizewell C operates within a complex and fast-moving stakeholder environment, engaging with a wide range of partners including government bodies, regulators, local communities, supply chain partners, and international collaborators. This makes Sizewell C a uniquely stimulating place to work — where navigating evolving priorities, balancing interests, and building trusted relationships is just as critical as technical excellence. For those who thrive in dynamic, multi-dimensional settings, it offers unmatched professional challenge and growth.

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.

By submitting an application to this role, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Sizewell C’s employee privacy policy and EDF's employee privacy policy. Just to let you know, EDF will be processing and sharing information about your application on behalf of Sizewell C.