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MEH Head of Strategic Resourcing

Job Category:  Project Management / Controls
Contract Partner Company:  MEH Alliance
Employing Company:  MEHA

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MEH Head of Strategic Resourcing

MEHA

 

Full-time, project-based, central to programme delivery


Purpose of the Role

The Head of Strategic Resourcing will lead the long-term workforce strategy for the MEH Programme, ensuring that resource planning, recruitment, succession, and deployment of talent are aligned with delivery priorities. Operating within a complex, multi-partner alliance structure this role will own and drive 

Workstream 8: Strategic Workforce Strategy – moving the programme from reactive hiring to future focused, integrated planning.


This role reports directly to the MEH People Programme Director and is a key member of the MEH HR Leadership Team.

While there may be a small core team supporting this job holder, the primary model will be to leverage the strengths, expertise, and infrastructure of the partner organisations.

Success will depend on strong influencing, alignment and collaboration, with stakeholders across multiple employers and functions.

 

Location and Ways of Working

This is a visible and relationship driven role, requiring regular presence at key locations including the Hinkley site and local offices.

The base can be flexible, but the job holder must be able to build trust, influence stakeholders, and maintain an active presence where delivery happens.


Key responsibilities

• Lead the ongoing development and implementation of the strategic workforce plan for the MEH Alliance, including both white and blue-collar roles.
• Oversee the end-to-end Talent Market process, embedding the best athlete approach and reducing reliance on automatic allocation.
• Manage resource planning governance for Task Orders, including real-time reporting and data transparency.
• Collaborate with Sizewell C to align talent pipeline strategy and transition planning.
• Establish early visibility of future workforce needs to inform succession planning and capability development.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with partner HR leads, workforce planning teams, and key functional stakeholders.
• Ensure accurate forecasting, proactive gap analysis, and timely mobilisation of resource to meet programme needs.
• Monitor labour market risks, regional shortages, and competitor activity to adapt strategy as needed.
• Contribute to performance, diversity and cultural transformation objective through inclusive and forwardlooking talent strategies.

 

Building a High-Performing Future – Strategic Workstreams

1. Alliance Reset and Cultural Alignment
2. Leadership, Culture and High Performance
3. HR Function Redesign and Capability Strategy
4. Construction Structure and Capability Review
5. Communications and Engagement
6. Cross Partner Collaboration and Governance
7. Performance Metrics and Accountability Framework
8. Strategic Workforce Strategy


As leader of Workstream 8: Strategic Workforce Strategy, the role will:

• Translate the case for change into actionable delivery.
• Develop the overarching framework that brings together workforce planning, resourcing, capability development, and talent management.
• Embed workforce planning and capability mapping into the MEH operating model.
• Ensure alignment between partner pipelines, succession plans and delivery demand.
• Lead the ongoing development and governance of the Talent Market and associated forums


Candidate Profile

• Proven experience in large scale resourcing strategy within infrastructure, construction or major programmes.
• Solid understanding of workforce planning tools, systems, and modelling.
• Experience of working in or across complex joint ventures or alliance environments
• Ability to influence stakeholders and partner organisations
• Confident in interpreting data, workforce risk and resource forecasting
• Collaborative, inclusive and forward-thinking.
• Politically astute, with strong influencing skills.
• Strategic mindset with a pragmatic, delivery focused approach.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and complexity.
• Deep commitment to building a high-performing, people-focused programme.

 

This role would ideally suit an experienced professional who can hit the ground running, particularly given the scale and urgency of the delivery programme. However, consideration could be given to a high-potential individual with strong fundamentals in workforce planning or resourcing, provided they demonstrate leadership capability and an appetite for growth as well as access to mentoring and partner support during transition

 

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.

The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

 

MEH Head of Strategic Resourcing

MEHA

 

Full-time, project-based, central to programme delivery


Purpose of the Role

The Head of Strategic Resourcing will lead the long-term workforce strategy for the MEH Programme, ensuring that resource planning, recruitment, succession, and deployment of talent are aligned with delivery priorities. Operating within a complex, multi-partner alliance structure this role will own and drive 

Workstream 8: Strategic Workforce Strategy – moving the programme from reactive hiring to future focused, integrated planning.


This role reports directly to the MEH People Programme Director and is a key member of the MEH HR Leadership Team.

While there may be a small core team supporting this job holder, the primary model will be to leverage the strengths, expertise, and infrastructure of the partner organisations.

Success will depend on strong influencing, alignment and collaboration, with stakeholders across multiple employers and functions.

 

Location and Ways of Working

This is a visible and relationship driven role, requiring regular presence at key locations including the Hinkley site and local offices.

The base can be flexible, but the job holder must be able to build trust, influence stakeholders, and maintain an active presence where delivery happens.


Key responsibilities

• Lead the ongoing development and implementation of the strategic workforce plan for the MEH Alliance, including both white and blue-collar roles.
• Oversee the end-to-end Talent Market process, embedding the best athlete approach and reducing reliance on automatic allocation.
• Manage resource planning governance for Task Orders, including real-time reporting and data transparency.
• Collaborate with Sizewell C to align talent pipeline strategy and transition planning.
• Establish early visibility of future workforce needs to inform succession planning and capability development.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with partner HR leads, workforce planning teams, and key functional stakeholders.
• Ensure accurate forecasting, proactive gap analysis, and timely mobilisation of resource to meet programme needs.
• Monitor labour market risks, regional shortages, and competitor activity to adapt strategy as needed.
• Contribute to performance, diversity and cultural transformation objective through inclusive and forwardlooking talent strategies.

 

Building a High-Performing Future – Strategic Workstreams

1. Alliance Reset and Cultural Alignment
2. Leadership, Culture and High Performance
3. HR Function Redesign and Capability Strategy
4. Construction Structure and Capability Review
5. Communications and Engagement
6. Cross Partner Collaboration and Governance
7. Performance Metrics and Accountability Framework
8. Strategic Workforce Strategy


As leader of Workstream 8: Strategic Workforce Strategy, the role will:

• Translate the case for change into actionable delivery.
• Develop the overarching framework that brings together workforce planning, resourcing, capability development, and talent management.
• Embed workforce planning and capability mapping into the MEH operating model.
• Ensure alignment between partner pipelines, succession plans and delivery demand.
• Lead the ongoing development and governance of the Talent Market and associated forums


Candidate Profile

• Proven experience in large scale resourcing strategy within infrastructure, construction or major programmes.
• Solid understanding of workforce planning tools, systems, and modelling.
• Experience of working in or across complex joint ventures or alliance environments
• Ability to influence stakeholders and partner organisations
• Confident in interpreting data, workforce risk and resource forecasting
• Collaborative, inclusive and forward-thinking.
• Politically astute, with strong influencing skills.
• Strategic mindset with a pragmatic, delivery focused approach.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and complexity.
• Deep commitment to building a high-performing, people-focused programme.

 

This role would ideally suit an experienced professional who can hit the ground running, particularly given the scale and urgency of the delivery programme. However, consideration could be given to a high-potential individual with strong fundamentals in workforce planning or resourcing, provided they demonstrate leadership capability and an appetite for growth as well as access to mentoring and partner support during transition

 

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 been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have 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, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as 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, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which 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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