Recruitment & Onboarding Co-Ordination Lead in Ipswich

Location: Orwell, Ipswich
Required to be in the office 2-3 days per week
Salary: c£40,000 depending on experience
Bonus: 5%
Benefits: 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, contributory pension (up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer)
Permanent, full-time
Closing date: Friday 30th January

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced, organised and people-focused Recruitment & Onboarding Co-ordination Lead to join our growing team at Sizewell C. This is a fast-paced, high-impact role where no two days are the same. You will lead the onboarding function, ensuring the smooth, compliant and timely mobilisation of new starters into the business. You’ll manage a team of Recruitment & Onboarding Co-ordinators, hold accountability for service delivery, and act as a central point of escalation for complex cases. Operating in a highly regulated environment with multiple stakeholders, this role requires someone who thrives under pressure, enjoys problem-solving, and can balance pace with precision. You will play a critical part in shaping the candidate experience and supporting the wider workforce strategy for one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading and delivering onboarding at scale
• Owning and continuously improving the onboarding service, ensuring it is compliant, efficient and responsive to business needs
• Managing complex, high-volume onboarding pipelines while maintaining exceptional attention to detail
• Acting as an escalation point for complex or high-risk cases
• Driving improvements to time-to-onboard, quality and candidate experience

Team leadership

• Leading, coaching and motivating a team of Recruitment & Onboarding Co-ordinators
• Setting clear standards, priorities and expectations
• Managing workloads, performance, and development through regular 1:1s
• Building resilience, confidence and a culture of accountability

Operational excellence

• Managing end-to-end onboarding administration including contracts, Right to Work, vetting, screening and system workflows
• Ensuring all processes comply with UK legislation, data protection and audit standards
• Producing clear, accurate MI and reporting for stakeholders
• Managing invoices, budgets and service metrics

Stakeholder management

• Acting as a credible and approachable expert for hiring managers, HR colleagues, suppliers and candidates
• Balancing competing priorities across multiple stakeholder groups
• Gathering feedback and using insight to improve service delivery
• Building strong supplier relationships and driving performance

Candidate experience

• Being a central point of contact for candidates throughout the onboarding journey
• Providing clear communication, reassurance and proactive support
• Ensuring every new starter receives a professional, positive and well-managed experience

What we’re looking for

Essential

• Strong experience in administration or co-ordination within a fast-paced, customer-facing environment
• Solid understanding of Right to Work, pre-employment screening, GDPR and audit requirements
• Experience working in a highly regulated or compliance-driven environment
• Confident using HR systems, ATS or onboarding platforms, including reporting and workflow management
• Proven ability to lead, motivate and develop a team in high-pressure conditions
• Exceptional organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• High levels of accuracy, attention to detail and personal accountability
• Strong IT skills (Outlook, Word, Excel and the ability to learn new systems quickly)

Desirable

• Previous experience in recruitment, resourcing or HR administration
• Experience managing full end-to-end recruitment or onboarding processes
• Background in large, complex or multi-stakeholder organisations
• Experience using applicant tracking systems or direct sourcing tools

Why join us?

This is a chance to play a meaningful role in one of the UK’s most important infrastructure programmes. You’ll work in a dynamic environment, with real responsibility, high levels of exposure, and the opportunity to shape how onboarding operates at scale. If you’re energised by pace, motivated by complexity, and want to build something that genuinely matters, we’d love to hear from you.

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.