Configuration Management Lead

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Employing Company:  EDF

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Configuration Management Lead


Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater with travel required to Aztec West, Bristol.
This is a 12-month secondment/fixed term opportunity.


Are you an experienced leader in configuration management looking to take the next step in your career? Do you thrive in project-driven environments, with a talent for managing teams and engaging stakeholders at all levels? Are you motivated by delivering results and shaping high-performing teams in a fast-paced, complex setting? If so, come and join EDF as a Configuration Management Lead!


The Opportunity


As the Configuration Management Lead, you’ll oversee the control and integrity of plant configuration throughout the Commissioning phase at Hinkley Point C (HPC), ensuring alignment with project strategy, design change processes, and temporary modifications management. You’ll lead a small team, ensuring safe working practices, supporting team development, and driving performance through continuous improvement.


As a key member of the Cross Functional Delivery Team, you will support the Commissioning Delivery teams to deliver approximately 500,000 planned commissioning tests; provide clear guidance and oversight on Configuration Management during commissioning; shape and delivery commissioning objectives and engage with wider business stakeholders and external regulators.


As the Commissioning Programme evolves, you’ll contribute to defining and improving commissioning processes linked with Configuration Management, and play a key role in the recruitment, training, and development of skilled personnel to meet project needs.


Pay, benefits and culture


Alongside a starting salary of £65,000 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.


We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.


At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.


Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.  


We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.


We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.


What you’ll be doing


You’ll be responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of the Configuration Management Team, ensuring that all activities are delivered efficiently and effectively in support of the commissioning programme at Hinkley Point C. You'll manage a team of engineers, providing direction and oversight to maintain strong control over plant configuration during this critical phase.


You’ll take ownership of the Configuration Management strategy and associated processes, keeping them up to date and aligned with wider project objectives. You’ll communicate these clearly across teams and engage regularly with senior stakeholders to report on progress, offer insights, and help drive accountability within the wider commissioning function.


You’ll also support the Commissioning Manager and Senior Commissioning Manager in meeting project-level targets and milestones. In doing so, you’ll ensure that all commissioning activities adhere to nuclear, environmental, and industrial safety standards, while reflecting international best practice in safety and technical excellence.


Who you are


You’ll bring strong leadership experience within a project-driven environment, with proven ability to manage teams and coordinate multiple activities simultaneously. You’ll demonstrate excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, confidently engaging both internal and external stakeholders to drive delivery and maintain control across complex workstreams.


You’ll have a delivery-focused mindset, using clear accountability and influence to achieve results. Your ability to coach and develop others will be key, fostering a safe, empowered, and inclusive team culture. Strong communication skills will help you translate complex technical and regulatory information clearly and effectively to a range of audiences.


We’re looking for someone with experience working in a regulated environment, ideally with a background in design, commissioning, maintenance or operations—particularly within the nuclear industry. Commercial awareness and an understanding of change impact are valuable, and experience leading technical teams or membership of an engineering institution would be a bonus. French language skills are also desirable.


If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you!
 

Additionally, you must meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which generally requires you to have been a UK resident for at least 3 of the last 5 years.


#HinkleyPointCJobs #DestinationNuclear #EDFNuclearJobs

 

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.

Configuration Management Lead


Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater with travel required to Aztec West, Bristol.
This is a 12-month secondment/fixed term opportunity.


Are you an experienced leader in configuration management looking to take the next step in your career? Do you thrive in project-driven environments, with a talent for managing teams and engaging stakeholders at all levels? Are you motivated by delivering results and shaping high-performing teams in a fast-paced, complex setting? If so, come and join EDF as a Configuration Management Lead!


The Opportunity


As the Configuration Management Lead, you’ll oversee the control and integrity of plant configuration throughout the Commissioning phase at Hinkley Point C (HPC), ensuring alignment with project strategy, design change processes, and temporary modifications management. You’ll lead a small team, ensuring safe working practices, supporting team development, and driving performance through continuous improvement.


As a key member of the Cross Functional Delivery Team, you will support the Commissioning Delivery teams to deliver approximately 500,000 planned commissioning tests; provide clear guidance and oversight on Configuration Management during commissioning; shape and delivery commissioning objectives and engage with wider business stakeholders and external regulators.


As the Commissioning Programme evolves, you’ll contribute to defining and improving commissioning processes linked with Configuration Management, and play a key role in the recruitment, training, and development of skilled personnel to meet project needs.


Pay, benefits and culture


Alongside a starting salary of £65,000 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.


We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.


At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.


Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.  


We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.


We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.


What you’ll be doing


You’ll be responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of the Configuration Management Team, ensuring that all activities are delivered efficiently and effectively in support of the commissioning programme at Hinkley Point C. You'll manage a team of engineers, providing direction and oversight to maintain strong control over plant configuration during this critical phase.


You’ll take ownership of the Configuration Management strategy and associated processes, keeping them up to date and aligned with wider project objectives. You’ll communicate these clearly across teams and engage regularly with senior stakeholders to report on progress, offer insights, and help drive accountability within the wider commissioning function.


You’ll also support the Commissioning Manager and Senior Commissioning Manager in meeting project-level targets and milestones. In doing so, you’ll ensure that all commissioning activities adhere to nuclear, environmental, and industrial safety standards, while reflecting international best practice in safety and technical excellence.


Who you are


You’ll bring strong leadership experience within a project-driven environment, with proven ability to manage teams and coordinate multiple activities simultaneously. You’ll demonstrate excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, confidently engaging both internal and external stakeholders to drive delivery and maintain control across complex workstreams.


You’ll have a delivery-focused mindset, using clear accountability and influence to achieve results. Your ability to coach and develop others will be key, fostering a safe, empowered, and inclusive team culture. Strong communication skills will help you translate complex technical and regulatory information clearly and effectively to a range of audiences.


We’re looking for someone with experience working in a regulated environment, ideally with a background in design, commissioning, maintenance or operations—particularly within the nuclear industry. Commercial awareness and an understanding of change impact are valuable, and experience leading technical teams or membership of an engineering institution would be a bonus. French language skills are also desirable.


If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you!
 

Additionally, you must meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which generally requires you to have been a UK resident for at least 3 of the last 5 years.


#HinkleyPointCJobs #DestinationNuclear #EDFNuclearJobs

 

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.