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Workforce Capability Manager (Sizewell C)

Job Category:  Other
Contract Partner Company:  Jobs Service
Employing Company:  Sizewell C

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Workforce Capability Manager (Sizewell C)


Location: Suffolk, Sizwell C site  (2–3 days per week, based on business need) with occasional travel to London.

Salary: Circa £80,000 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent


Benefits

 

  • 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Option to purchase additional leave
  • Private healthcare
  • Competitive pension contribution (up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer)
  • Performance-based bonus up to 10%
  • Wide range of benefits via internal benefits portal


About Sizewell C


Sizewell C (SZC) is one of the UK’s largest and most exciting infrastructure projects. With development consent secured, the project is entering its construction phase and will play a vital role in meeting the UK's climate goals and delivering long-term, low-carbon energy.


Why Join as Workforce Capability Manager?


As part of the functional leadership team within the Employment Affairs Unit, this role offers the opportunity to build and lead the workforce capability strategy from the ground up. You'll play a key role in shaping a future-ready workforce, supporting regional development and long-term success of the project. You’ll join a collaborative and fast-moving team where your voice and experience will directly influence one of the UK’s most ambitious infrastructure projects.


Role Overview


The Workforce Capability Manager will lead the development and delivery of workforce capability and planning strategies. You’ll help ensure that as the project grows, the right people are in place at the right time — equipped with the skills needed to perform. Working closely with internal teams and external partners, you'll oversee workforce planning, capability transition (particularly from Hinkley Point C), and training oversight to support operational readiness.


This role is part of the functional leadership team within the Employment Affairs Unit, reporting to the Head of EAU. You will work cross-functionally alongside leads in workforce mobilisation, skills & education, industrial relations, and operations.


You’ll have the opportunity to build your own small team, including a workforce capability lead.


Key Responsibilities

 

  • Lead SZC's workforce capability strategy across the construction lifecycle
  • Deliver and maintain a robust workforce forecasting framework
  • Oversee planning and relationships for the workforce transition from HPC to SZC
  • Ensure workforce skills are aligned with construction and operational needs
  • Track and assess supply chain workforce capabilities and gaps
  • Oversee the development and delivery of relevant training programmes on site
  • Drive compliance with workforce commitments made to local authorities and communities
  • Engage and collaborate with multiple internal and external stakeholders
  • Provide data-driven insights to inform workforce related decisions with supply chain partners
     

About You


Essential Experience & Skills

 

  • Proven background in workforce capability planning or strategic workforce management
  • Experience working on large-scale infrastructure, construction or regulated projects
  • Strong understanding of competency frameworks, training delivery and capability building
  • Exceptional stakeholder management across complex, matrixed environments
  • Experience working with or overseeing supply chain workforce requirements
  • Ability to develop strategies based on data, project needs and regulatory commitments


Desirable Experience

 

  • CIPD membership or equivalent experience
  • Industrial Relations experience and Trade Union engagement
  • Experience working in a matrix organisation
  • Previous involvement in education/training facility set-up or oversight
  • Background in large-scale construction sectors such as nuclear, water, transport or utilities
  • Degree or equivalent in HR, Construction Management or a related discipline
  • Professional certifications in workforce planning or project management are advantageous but not essential


Key Attributes


Clarity: Able to communicate with purpose and alignment

Solidarity: Collaborative, with a team-first mindset
Respect: Inclusive and open to feedback
Positivity: Committed to improvement and delivery
Humility: Willing to learn, adapt and engage with others' views


Why Join Sizewell C?

 

  • Be part of a transformative project that contributes to the UK’s net-zero ambitions.
  • Collaborate with industry leaders and government stakeholders.
  • Enjoy career-defining opportunities in a supportive and innovative environment.
  • Competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a chance to leave a lasting legacy.
  • You’ll work in a dynamic, collaborative environment with a team that shares your commitment to safety, innovation, and excellence.


Apply Now!


If you're ready to make an impact, work with purpose, and join one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in the UK, we want to hear from you.


Let’s build a cleaner, greener future together.
 

 

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

Workforce Capability Manager (Sizewell C)


Location: Suffolk, Sizwell C site  (2–3 days per week, based on business need) with occasional travel to London.

Salary: Circa £80,000 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent


Benefits

 

  • 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Option to purchase additional leave
  • Private healthcare
  • Competitive pension contribution (up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer)
  • Performance-based bonus up to 10%
  • Wide range of benefits via internal benefits portal


About Sizewell C


Sizewell C (SZC) is one of the UK’s largest and most exciting infrastructure projects. With development consent secured, the project is entering its construction phase and will play a vital role in meeting the UK's climate goals and delivering long-term, low-carbon energy.


Why Join as Workforce Capability Manager?


As part of the functional leadership team within the Employment Affairs Unit, this role offers the opportunity to build and lead the workforce capability strategy from the ground up. You'll play a key role in shaping a future-ready workforce, supporting regional development and long-term success of the project. You’ll join a collaborative and fast-moving team where your voice and experience will directly influence one of the UK’s most ambitious infrastructure projects.


Role Overview


The Workforce Capability Manager will lead the development and delivery of workforce capability and planning strategies. You’ll help ensure that as the project grows, the right people are in place at the right time — equipped with the skills needed to perform. Working closely with internal teams and external partners, you'll oversee workforce planning, capability transition (particularly from Hinkley Point C), and training oversight to support operational readiness.


This role is part of the functional leadership team within the Employment Affairs Unit, reporting to the Head of EAU. You will work cross-functionally alongside leads in workforce mobilisation, skills & education, industrial relations, and operations.


You’ll have the opportunity to build your own small team, including a workforce capability lead.


Key Responsibilities

 

  • Lead SZC's workforce capability strategy across the construction lifecycle
  • Deliver and maintain a robust workforce forecasting framework
  • Oversee planning and relationships for the workforce transition from HPC to SZC
  • Ensure workforce skills are aligned with construction and operational needs
  • Track and assess supply chain workforce capabilities and gaps
  • Oversee the development and delivery of relevant training programmes on site
  • Drive compliance with workforce commitments made to local authorities and communities
  • Engage and collaborate with multiple internal and external stakeholders
  • Provide data-driven insights to inform workforce related decisions with supply chain partners
     

About You


Essential Experience & Skills

 

  • Proven background in workforce capability planning or strategic workforce management
  • Experience working on large-scale infrastructure, construction or regulated projects
  • Strong understanding of competency frameworks, training delivery and capability building
  • Exceptional stakeholder management across complex, matrixed environments
  • Experience working with or overseeing supply chain workforce requirements
  • Ability to develop strategies based on data, project needs and regulatory commitments


Desirable Experience

 

  • CIPD membership or equivalent experience
  • Industrial Relations experience and Trade Union engagement
  • Experience working in a matrix organisation
  • Previous involvement in education/training facility set-up or oversight
  • Background in large-scale construction sectors such as nuclear, water, transport or utilities
  • Degree or equivalent in HR, Construction Management or a related discipline
  • Professional certifications in workforce planning or project management are advantageous but not essential


Key Attributes


Clarity: Able to communicate with purpose and alignment

Solidarity: Collaborative, with a team-first mindset
Respect: Inclusive and open to feedback
Positivity: Committed to improvement and delivery
Humility: Willing to learn, adapt and engage with others' views


Why Join Sizewell C?

 

  • Be part of a transformative project that contributes to the UK’s net-zero ambitions.
  • Collaborate with industry leaders and government stakeholders.
  • Enjoy career-defining opportunities in a supportive and innovative environment.
  • Competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a chance to leave a lasting legacy.
  • You’ll work in a dynamic, collaborative environment with a team that shares your commitment to safety, innovation, and excellence.


Apply Now!


If you're ready to make an impact, work with purpose, and join one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in the UK, we want to hear from you.


Let’s build a cleaner, greener future together.
 

 

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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