Emergency Shift Manager (Sizewell C)

The role will be employed by G4S but will hold duty responsibility for Sizewell C (SZC), therefore be an integral part of the client team. The on‑duty Emergency Shift Manager (ESM) assumes and retains overall command for the operation or incident. They have responsibility and authority for the site tactical procedures based from the Emergency Control Centre (EmCC). The role will be one of four or five ESMs who will hold equivalent authority when on duty and hold a nominated specialism related to the phase of construction, this will be detailed by the Licence Condition (LC) 11 – On‑site Emergency Arrangements Lead. This LC will form the basis of this role.

The EmCC will be fed information from Operational Management via the Security Control Room (SCR) including Incident Controllers, Duty Managers and specialist response. The EmCC will be populated with a number of Subject Matter Experts (SME) from site depending on the type of incident or event which they will coordinate throughout and act as the interface with specialists internally and externally. The ESM, however, should not make operational decisions; instead the ESM focuses on tactical responses and coordination and recovery. They are responsible for ensuring that any tactics deployed are proportionate to the risks identified, meet the objectives of the strategy and are legally compliant.

They must be capable and confident in briefing at a strategic level and during an incident and will report directly to the Site Operations Site Lead, Construction, and Site Operations Directors. The Areas of Responsibility (AOR) sit within the Main Development Site (MDS) and Off Site Infrastructure (OSI) pending individual site incident management plans. They will also manage situations on public highways that involve SZC workforce or assets, including freight delivery to site. It is essential this role enables the maintenance of situational awareness and anticipates the “So What” to ensure the appropriate resources are available to fulfil tasks and site incident response as required.

To achieve this, the ESM will be expected to be immersed within the different construction disciplines (Civils, Site Operations, Marine, Tunnelling, Nuclear Island, Balance of Plant etc.), to understand the construction activity and associated safety risks, which may require an emergency response in the event of an incident. They must be confident in the recovery process post‑incident/event, including evidence collection, investigation and returning to Business As Usual (BAU). This is a duty role, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Role holders will complete 12‑hour shifts, on a rotation of 4‑on‑4‑off, including days, nights, weekends and bank holidays.

Key Responsibilities

• Keeping up to date with the policies and processes that are used for major incidents
• Protect life, property, environment and information
• Be aware of and understand the multi‑agency command structure, commander roles, responsibilities, requirements, and capabilities (including gaps), and monitor the operational command structure, including functional roles
• Establish and manage the EmCC at the earliest opportunity
• Establish shared situational awareness between the responder organisations at the tactical level and promote effective decision making, using the Joint Decision Model (JDM)
• Develop and agree the overall joint intent, regularly assessing and sharing the information and intelligence available
• Understand how ever‑changing threats and hazards affect each organisation, and work with multi‑construction disciplines and multi‑agency colleagues to develop a joint understanding of risk, putting in place appropriate mitigation and management arrangements to continually monitor and respond to the changing nature of emergencies for the organisation
• Ensure that statutory responsibilities are met for health, safety, human rights, data protection and welfare of people during the incident
• Address the longer‑term priorities in the recovery of the construction site through restoration of essential services
• Warn and inform the site workforce by providing accurate and timely information, using the appropriate media channels
• Where necessary make the strategic commander aware of the incident and the common operating picture
• Ensure that all tactical decisions made, and the rationale behind them, are documented in a decision log, ensuring that a clear audit trail exists for all multi‑agency debriefs and future multi‑agency learning
• Debrief the Incident Controller and on‑site and off‑site operational commanders, ensuring any issues that have affected interoperability are shared using Joint Organisational Learning (JOL)
• Responsible for the suitably qualified and experienced person (SQEP) profiles for all nominated EmCC specialists; these will include but are not limited to: assistant, loggist, health and safety, environmental, communication, site operations, construction manager/PM, security, occupational health, welfare, IR, on‑site and off‑site blue‑light response commanders and others

Skills and Competencies

• Knowledge of health & safety procedures, policies and best working practices
• Strong and proven management and leadership skills together with excellent communication, influencing, negotiating and engagement skills
• Sound judgement and decision‑making, with a “hands on” problem‑solving approach, able to remain calm under pressure and take control of SMEs to ensure effective communication and management of an incident or event
• Innovative in approach, supportive and adaptable to change
• Teamwork, able to work with counterparts to ensure effective delivery of the EmCC, training and exercising

Educational Requirements / Qualifications

• Ideally (but not essential) have a degree in crisis or emergency management
• Ideally (but not essential) degree level leadership and management
• Ideally (but not essential) have an HSE diploma
• Ideally (but not essential) emergency planning college certifications

Preferred Experience

• A professional leader with prior experience gained in a corporate, critical national infrastructure, uniformed services or heavy industrial environment
• Experience of leading teams in a demanding environment
• Enthusiastic and committed approach with a track record of building strong, trust‑based relationships with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels
• Experience of training and mentoring
• Proven experience in a high‑tempo, operational theatre in a pressurised role

Personal Qualities

• Highest levels of integrity, respectfulness and professionalism
• An engaging and proactive “can do” attitude where successes and failures are shared
• Doing what we say we are going to do and only committing to what can be done
• Ability to plan ahead and share intelligence to prevent surprise

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.