At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the delivery of major infrastructure projects, ensuring safety, quality, and budget compliance.
- Company: Join Sizewell C, a key player in the UK's infrastructure development.
- Benefits: Enjoy 28 days annual leave, flexible benefits, and a generous pension scheme.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for career growth in a collaborative environment.
- Why this job: Be part of an extraordinary project that shapes the future of energy in the UK.
- Qualifications: Experience in large industrial projects and familiarity with NEC contracts required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Location: Leiston, Suffolk (4/5 days onsite)
Employment: Permanent | Full-time
Salary: £72,500 - £82,500 depending on experience
Benefits: 28 days annual leave + bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 5 years; Up to 5% bonus; Pension: up to 7.5% employee contribution and 15% employer contribution; Flexible Benefits
Closing date: Wednesday 22 July 2026.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Delivery Project Manager to join the Main Site Development team at Sizewell C – one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects. You will lead the design, procurement, and construction delivery of a defined infrastructure package, focused on industrial buildings and associated external works. Managing the full project lifecycle, you’ll ensure delivery is safe, on time, on budget, and to the required quality standards. Reporting to a Senior Project Manager, you will take ownership of contract delivery and lead multi-disciplinary teams across complex construction activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver procurement strategies, including defining Employer’s Requirements
- Lead tendering, evaluation, and award of Design & Build contracts NEC3 or 4 and experience in the delivery of either warehouses or logistics parks or JCT
- Manage contractor performance across programme, cost, and quality
- Ensure designs are buildable, cost-effective, and aligned to programme
- Coordinate interfaces with suppliers, contractors, and surrounding works
- Oversee large-scale industrial construction including buildings and external works
- Manage risk, change, and budget (incl. reporting to stakeholders)
- Lead and support delivery teams, including Assistant Project Managers
- Ensure effective stakeholder engagement across internal and external parties
Project Scope
- Contracts ranging from £250k to £150m
- Delivery of industrial buildings, warehouses, roads, utilities, and logistics areas
- Leadership of small teams and coordination with large contractor workforces
About You
- Proven experience delivering large industrial or logistics facilities
- Familiarity with NEC and/or FIDIC contracts
- Interface management experience between design, planning and construction
- Strong background in Design & Build contract procurement and delivery
- Experience across design, procurement, and construction phases
- Knowledge of structural steel, heavy-duty slabs, and external works
- Experience managing contractors in complex, regulated environments
- Strong understanding of cost, programme, risk, and change control
- Degree-qualified and ideally professionally chartered
- Experience in nuclear or highly regulated sectors
- Knowledge of CDM regulations and nuclear quality standards
- Experience with crane systems or mechanical handling integration
- Background in logistics hubs or manufacturing facilities
Do you have experience in progressing designs of large logistics plots through the RIBA stages? Have you delivered major projects using NEC3 or 4 and have experience in the delivery of either warehouses or logistics parks? Do you have experience procuring design and build contracts and then executing the construction? Apply now and be part of something extraordinary at Sizewell C.
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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