Job Description
Sizewell C. The power of good for Britain.
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.
Closing date: Sunday 25 January 2026.
Benefits
10% CIP bonus
28 days holiday, plus bank holidays
Contributory pension: up to 7.5% employee / up to 15% employer
Life Assurance: eight times the annual salary
Ongoing professional development
Other lifestyle benefits
Lead Surveyor – Shape the Future of UK Infrastructure
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 a 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
Diversity & Legal
We encourage and embrace diversity. 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.
Apply Now!
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.
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