Head of Heatsink Delivery (Sizewell C)

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Head of Heatsink Delivery 
Sizewell C 

Location: Leiston, Suffolk
Contract: Permanent, full-time.   

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 Heath Sink scope for SZC Units 1 & 2 within the Main Civil Works (MCW), acting as the Owner Participant in the Civil Works Alliance. Accountable for enabling safe, quality, on-time, on-cost delivery across Engineering Interfaces, Procurement, Construction, and Handover. Operates in a peer relationship with the CWA HSK Platform Delivery Lead and provides line leadership to SZC project managers and functional support.
 

Key Responsibilities

Delivery Leadership: Own delivery outcomes (SQEP: Safety, Quality, Environment, Performance) for the Heat Sink scope across Units 1 & 2; 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 Engineering, CI Programme, PMO, Commercial, Quality, and Supply Chain to assure design maturity, constructability, and progressive assurance.
Risk & Change: Own risk register and change control for CI scope; 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 & Contracts: Support procurement strategies, alliance commercial mechanisms, adjustment events within the alliancing framework.
Stakeholder Management: Engage with CWP leadership and wider SZC stakeholders; prepare and present clear delivery reporting and readiness reviews.
Handover & Readiness: Ensure progressive assurance, completions, and documentary readiness to handover CI structures and components.
 

Contextual Information

The Sizewell C (SZC) construction programme is built around a technical and commercial business case that relies on intelligent replication of Hinkley Point C (HPC). This approach leverages mature design data, established engineering solutions, supply chain capability, and lessons learned from HPC to reduce FOAK complexity, accelerate delivery, and improve productivity.

EDF’s established UK nuclear capability is a critical contributor to this strategy, providing design, engineering, assurance, and construction expertise that underpins SZC’s ability to replicate, adapt and execute safely.

The SZC Civil Works Programme (CWP) comprises three major sub‑programmes delivered over a 10‑year period:

Early Works & Enabling
Main Civil & Ancillary Works
Marine & Tunnelling
The Main Civil Works (MCW) includes the Conventional Island (CI), Nuclear Island and Heat Sink Island scopes, with each scope delivered through integrated alliance teams combining SZC (Owner Participants) and Alliance Partners.
 

Key Stakeholders

The Heat Sink HoD must operate confidently and credibly in a complex, regulated stakeholder environment. Principal stakeholders include:

UK Government, including HM Treasury, DESNZ/BEIS, IPA
EDF (UK & France organisations) – engineering, assurance & delivery
Financial investors and institutions
UK Regulators (ONR, Environment Agency, local planning authorities)
Alliance partners within the Civil Works Alliance (CWA)
Local communities, authorities and representative groups
Responsible Designer (RD) and replicated HPC design teams
MEH and other programme leads (NI, CI, Heat Sink, Enabling, Marine & Tunnelling
 

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

Track record of delivering projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment whilst ensuring high levels of safety, security, and environmental responsibility, ideally within the Nuclear Energy sector or similar regulated environment.
Demonstrate success in managing / developing:
Engineering design and field execution strategies for project delivery,
Procurement and management of complex commercial arrangements,
Multi-discipline EPCM projects,
Experience of managing / influencing contractors, consultants and other advisors throughout large and complex construction projects.
Control of costs; risk; schedule and change and proficient.
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 other’s 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.

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.