About The Role
Would you enjoy building the workforce strategy that helps deliver the UK & Ireland's renewable energy future? As our Skills and Workforce Planning Manager, you’ll shape how we attract, develop and retain the talent needed to support major renewable energy projects, business growth, and the transition to a lower‑carbon future.
Opportunity
In this role you’ll lead a critical business priority – identifying future skills needs, strengthening workforce capability, and creating sustainable talent pipelines that support our ambitious growth plans. Your insight and expertise will help ensure we have the people, skills and capacity needed to deliver today and in the years ahead.
As Skills and Workforce Planning Manager, you’ll play a key role in supporting EDF Power Solutions’ ambitious growth plans. You’ll shape the workforce and skills strategy that ensures we have the capability, capacity and talent needed to deliver major renewable energy projects and support the UK’s transition to a net‑zero future.
Benefits
Alongside a competitive salary and potential for an annual bonus, you’ll benefit from a flexible working approach and the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across our UK & Ireland business. Working closely with senior leaders, HR, Learning and Development and project teams, you’ll have the visibility and influence to help shape strategic business decisions.
Location
Working on a hybrid basis from one of our offices – Edinburgh, Durham or London – we offer a Flexible First approach to work, meaning you can work comfortably from home with our offices as your base location.
Who You Are
- Significant experience in workforce planning, organisational development or strategic HR
- Experience developing workforce plans within engineering, infrastructure, construction or renewable energy sectors
- Strong analytical capability with experience of workforce modelling and forecasting
- Experience developing skills frameworks, capability matrices or competency models
- Experience presenting complex workforce data and recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Experience identifying skills gaps and developing workforce or capability strategies
- Experience supporting succession planning, talent development or organisational capability programmes
What You’ll Be Doing
- Developing and implementing the business workforce planning strategy aligned to organisational objectives
- Embedding a workforce planning framework to forecast short, medium and long‑term workforce demand
- Improving visibility of current and future workforce capability across the business
- Identifying workforce risks, capability gaps and future resource requirements
- Building and maintaining skills frameworks and capability matrices
- Leading succession planning activities for critical and specialist roles
- Managing the Early Careers strategy, including graduates, apprentices and industrial placements
- Developing workforce dashboards, metrics and insights to support strategic decision‑making
- Partnering with senior leaders to understand future capability requirements
- Monitoring labour market trends and identifying innovative approaches to workforce planning and skills development
Success in this role comes from being able to navigate uncertainty and bring clarity to complexity. We value curiosity, adaptability and resilience. If that excites you, we’d love to hear from you.
Pay, Benefits and Culture
Alongside a competitive salary and potential for an annual bonus, and a market‑leading pension scheme, our employee benefits include flexible benefits tailored to your lifestyle – from electric vehicle leasing and private healthcare to extra holiday and more.
Everyone is welcome at EDF Power Solutions; we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.
Closing Date
30th of July 2026
Skills & Workforce Planning Manager employer: EDF UK
At EDF Power Solutions, we are not just shaping the future of renewable energy; we are committed to fostering a dynamic and inclusive work environment that empowers our employees. As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will enjoy competitive compensation, flexible working arrangements across our London, Edinburgh, or Durham offices, and the opportunity to mentor junior engineers while contributing to impactful projects that drive the UK's transition to net zero. Join us in our mission to deliver clean, green energy and be part of a diverse team dedicated to innovation and excellence.
