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Plant Coordinator

Job Category:  Construction
Contract Partner Company:  Civil Works Alliance (CWA)
Employing Company:  CWA

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Plant Coordinator 
CWA
Sizewell C


The Plant Coordinator will ensure that the right plant and equipment are planned, mobilised, allocated, maintained, and safely operated to support the Enabling & Earthworks scope. 


This role will optimise plant uptime and utilisation across bulk earthworks, haul road operations, materials handling, and logistics support, working closely with supervisors, subcontractors, and the logistics control room to protect the programme's critical path.


Key Responsibilities


Plant Planning & Allocation


• Maintain the rolling plant demand plan aligned to the construction schedule and short-interval control.
• Balance owned vs. hired plant; track off-hire windows to avoid unnecessary costs.
• Ensure operators with the correct competencies/tickets are assigned to plant and shifts.


Maintenance, Compliance & Readiness


• Coordinate with plant providers/workshops on preventive maintenance, inspections, LOLER/PUWER, and repairs to minimise downtime.
• Maintain an accurate asset register, service history, and inspection records for audit readiness.
• Ensure pre-use checks, defect logging, and lock-out/tag-out processes are followed.
• Verify plant fit-for-purpose for earthworks (e.g., GPS-enabled machines, tyre selection, buckets/blades, vibration exposure controls).


Operations & Logistics Integration


• Align plant availability with haul route readiness, laydown capacity, and delivery sequencing.
• Support fuel management and consumables.
• Coordinate the movement of plant between workfaces, compounds, and rail/port transfer points-managing escorts and route clearances if required.
• Interface with Traffic, Materials, and Rail/Import teams to synchronise plant for unloading, stockpile management, and loading operations.
• Manage breakdown process, ensuring timely reporting and repairs to minimise downtown - arrange alternative replacements where necessary.
• Compile site NRMM register and ensure compliance and up to date records are kept.


Performance, Cost & Reporting


• Track and report utilisation, idle time, breakdown rates, and Mean Time To Repair.
• Monitor hire costs, minimum terms, standby/demurrage, and fuel consumption.
• Produce daily/weekly dashboards (plant on-hire/off-hire, downtime, operator coverage, defects status).
• Identify and escalate bottlenecks and implement mitigations.


Stakeholder & Supplier Coordination


• Act as the first point of contact for plant queries from site supervisors, subcontractors, plant hire suppliers, and control room.
• Coordinate operator assignments with HR/Training.
• Attend CWA plant meetings with updates prepared for EW&E team.


Safety & Environmental Control


• Champion HSE standards, life-saving rules, and safe systems of work for plant operations.
• Ensure effective segregation of people/plant, lighting, signage, and banksman arrangements.
• Support incident/near-miss investigations involving plant; track corrective actions to closure.
• Coordinate dust suppression, wheel wash, spill response and waste management for plant operations.


Qualifications 


• CSCS Card.
• Full UK Driving License.


Experience 


• Experience coordinating plant/equipment on major civil engineering or infrastructure projects, preferably heavy earthworks.
• Strong understanding of plant capabilities, maintenance cycles, and safe operations.
• Proven ability to manage multiple suppliers, hire agreements, and competing site demands.
• Competent with Excel and plant tracking tools.
• Excellent communication skills across supervisors, operators, and logistics teams.

 

 

 

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 Sizewell C Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.#SZCJobs

 

 

Plant Coordinator 
CWA
Sizewell C


The Plant Coordinator will ensure that the right plant and equipment are planned, mobilised, allocated, maintained, and safely operated to support the Enabling & Earthworks scope. 


This role will optimise plant uptime and utilisation across bulk earthworks, haul road operations, materials handling, and logistics support, working closely with supervisors, subcontractors, and the logistics control room to protect the programme's critical path.


Key Responsibilities


Plant Planning & Allocation


• Maintain the rolling plant demand plan aligned to the construction schedule and short-interval control.
• Balance owned vs. hired plant; track off-hire windows to avoid unnecessary costs.
• Ensure operators with the correct competencies/tickets are assigned to plant and shifts.


Maintenance, Compliance & Readiness


• Coordinate with plant providers/workshops on preventive maintenance, inspections, LOLER/PUWER, and repairs to minimise downtime.
• Maintain an accurate asset register, service history, and inspection records for audit readiness.
• Ensure pre-use checks, defect logging, and lock-out/tag-out processes are followed.
• Verify plant fit-for-purpose for earthworks (e.g., GPS-enabled machines, tyre selection, buckets/blades, vibration exposure controls).


Operations & Logistics Integration


• Align plant availability with haul route readiness, laydown capacity, and delivery sequencing.
• Support fuel management and consumables.
• Coordinate the movement of plant between workfaces, compounds, and rail/port transfer points-managing escorts and route clearances if required.
• Interface with Traffic, Materials, and Rail/Import teams to synchronise plant for unloading, stockpile management, and loading operations.
• Manage breakdown process, ensuring timely reporting and repairs to minimise downtown - arrange alternative replacements where necessary.
• Compile site NRMM register and ensure compliance and up to date records are kept.


Performance, Cost & Reporting


• Track and report utilisation, idle time, breakdown rates, and Mean Time To Repair.
• Monitor hire costs, minimum terms, standby/demurrage, and fuel consumption.
• Produce daily/weekly dashboards (plant on-hire/off-hire, downtime, operator coverage, defects status).
• Identify and escalate bottlenecks and implement mitigations.


Stakeholder & Supplier Coordination


• Act as the first point of contact for plant queries from site supervisors, subcontractors, plant hire suppliers, and control room.
• Coordinate operator assignments with HR/Training.
• Attend CWA plant meetings with updates prepared for EW&E team.


Safety & Environmental Control


• Champion HSE standards, life-saving rules, and safe systems of work for plant operations.
• Ensure effective segregation of people/plant, lighting, signage, and banksman arrangements.
• Support incident/near-miss investigations involving plant; track corrective actions to closure.
• Coordinate dust suppression, wheel wash, spill response and waste management for plant operations.


Qualifications 


• CSCS Card.
• Full UK Driving License.


Experience 


• Experience coordinating plant/equipment on major civil engineering or infrastructure projects, preferably heavy earthworks.
• Strong understanding of plant capabilities, maintenance cycles, and safe operations.
• Proven ability to manage multiple suppliers, hire agreements, and competing site demands.
• Competent with Excel and plant tracking tools.
• Excellent communication skills across supervisors, operators, and logistics teams.

 

 

 

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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