Head of CI Delivery - Leiston, IP16 4EW in Luton

Shape Britain’s Energy Future with Sizewell C

Location: Leiston, Suffolk

Contract: Permanent, full-time.

Closing Date: 24th February 2026

Why Join Us? We’re building the future. Sizewell C is a once-in-a-generation infrastructure project that will power Britain’s energy security and net-zero ambitions for decades to come. Following our recent Final Investment Decision, construction is fully greenlit. This is your chance to be part of the largest investment in homegrown clean energy in decades, delivering low-carbon electricity to 6 million homes for at least 60 years.

What’s in It for You

• Salary: £105,000 per annum, depending on experience
• Car Allowance: £6,900 per annum
• Bonus: 10% annual incentive
• Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution
• Leave: 28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Your Impact

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Conventional Island (CI) scope for SZC Units 1; proactively unblock issues, optimise phasing, and drive schedule adherence.
• Alliance Partnering: Operate as Owner Participant within CWA; collaborate as a peer with the CWA CI Platform Delivery Lead to drive integrated planning and decision-making.
• Scope Integration: Manage interfaces with Responsible Designer (RD), CI Programme, PMO, Commercial, Quality, and Supply Chain to assure design maturity, constructability, and progressive assurance.
• Risk: Ensure transparent escalation and evidence-based decision-making.
• People Leadership: Lead a team of SZC Senior PMs/PMs and matrix functional support; set performance expectations and build delivery capability.
• Commercial: Prepare and present clear delivery reporting and readiness reviews.

Experience of successfully engaging groups of stakeholders. Able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management and facilitation. Proficient in the use of estimating scheduling, programming and risk tools. Experience of managing contractors, consultants and other advisors throughout large and complex construction projects, in a regulated environment. Experience of working within Alliances and Joint Ventures. Good presentation, influencing and facilitation skills. Excellent communication and organisational skills, able to develop relationships and maintain effective networks. Strong numerical and analytical skills. Degree and/or chartered status in an engineering, construction, project management or other related field. Good knowledge and experience of CDM Regulations. Knowledge and/or practitioner of Project Management with experience of applying either APM body of knowledge and OGC's Prince 2. Can demonstrate experience of managing project through the project lifecycle from concept to handover. Understanding the needs of nuclear quality and how nuclear quality is assured and controlled.

Behavioural Competences

• Humility: Recognises the value brought from different cultures and experiences. Open to others' points of view and ideas, willing to debate and to compromise.
• Positivity: Positively challenges poor quality and performance. Identifies solutions at the lowest possible level. Encourages tier 1s and others to bring new ideas forward.
• Respect: Values the rules and environment in which we operate. Gives and receives feedback with respect. Embraces and engages with new people and ideas.
• Solidarity: Operates as ‘One team’, working closely together and helping each other. Empowers team – empowered teams always looking forward. Shares responsibility for delivering the project outcomes.
• Clarity: Communicates clearly and consistently. Promotes collaboration and team alignment. Clear and fast decision making. Drives simplification at all levels.

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. Please note that export control compliance requirements apply to this role.

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.