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We are excited to be recruiting a Site Delivery Risk Manager to work on the Sizewell C project. This role will be based in Leiston 2‑3 days per week, with the rest from home.
Contract role to run to March 2026 with extension.
This role falls inside IR35.
Job Purpose / Overview
SZC Project Controls will serve as a centre of excellence, managing and strategically using delivery performance management information. Our team enables successful delivery of the SZC Project through proactive Project Controls that drive forward‑looking solutions to continuously improve performance. As a Risk Manager you will work within the Project Management Office (PMO) and be deployed with one of SZC’s delivery programmes.
The post holder supports the operation of all PMO risk processes across SZC, reporting to a Senior Risk Manager. The role entails supporting the ownership, deployment, and continuous improvement of all PMO risk process elements of a delivery programme, whilst ensuring we operate and deliver controls within the SZC governance structure, organisation and delivery model. You will help ensure PMO risk activities are carried out efficiently in accordance with calendars and deadlines established by SZC.
Candidate should have experience working in a large‑scale project environment and in multi‑disciplinary teams.
Principal Accountabilities
* Supporting or deputising for the Senior Risk Manager within one of the SZC capital delivery programmes.
* Supporting the Senior Risk Manager in operating Integrated Project Controls (Risk) processes.
* Assisting with tasks directed by the Senior Risk Manager and deputising at key delivery programme meetings.
* Planning & coordinating risk activities such as EAC update, ERR preparation and Integrated‑QRA development.
* Progress reporting including monthly risk dashboard updates, forecast to complete, variance identification, delivery process insights and opportunities for improvement.
* Potentially coaching and line management of Assistant Risk Managers, Graduates and Apprentices as required.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience
Essential
* Good in‑depth relevant sector experience or broader sector experience.
* Excellent facilitation skills – able to independently facilitate workshops within a programme.
* Strong technical skills – able to independently deliver QRAs, spanning Cost QRAs and Schedule QRAs; includes capability to integrate and support breadth of project controls, project delivery and business support processes (e.g. Finance).
* Strong engagement skills – able to independently engage teams of project and corporate professionals.
Desirable
* Project management and broader project controls experience.
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.
Why Join Us?
For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have quietly kept Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home‑grown energy. Our teams across the country proudly continue to serve the nation and keep an eye on the future. EDF is leading the UK’s nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.
Nuclear power is the most reliable, low‑carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, delivering low‑carbon electricity to meet 7% of UK demand. The project already makes a positive impact on the local and national economy, boosting skills and education.
We’re not just building new nuclear power stations – we’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.
It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry, and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more. Our industry has a mind‑boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry that is changing.
We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero‑carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.
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