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Cost Efficiency & Avoidance Lead - Project Controls (Sizewell C)

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Cost Efficiency & Avoidance Lead - Project Controls
Sizewell C
 

Location: London (2-3 days per week) with occasional travel to Suffolk

Contract: Permanent, full-time

Salary: £80,000 - £90,000 per annum (depending on experience) + benefits

Bonus: Up to 5%

Annual Leave: 28 days + bank holidays (rising to 30 days after 5 years)

Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution


Closing Date: Thursday 28th May 2026


Shape the Future of Cost Excellence on a Landmark Infrastructure Project


Sizewell C is a nationally significant clean energy project and a key part of the UK’s journey to Net Zero. Within Project Controls, we are building a centre of excellence that drives performance, delivers insight, and enables successful project delivery.

 
We are seeking a Cost Efficiency & Avoidance (CE&A) Lead to establish a pioneering function focused on reducing cost and maximising value across the project and its supply chain.

 
The Role
 

This is a unique opportunity to design, implement, and embed a Cost Efficiency & Avoidance framework that will influence the entire Sizewell C programme.

 
You will ensure a proactive, structured approach to identifying, quantifying, and realising both cost efficiencies and cost avoidance opportunities, helping to drive best-in-class performance across a complex infrastructure environment.


What You’ll Be Doing


• Lead the development and implementation of the CE&A framework across SZC
• Establish procedures, processes, tools, reporting, and training to support delivery
• Work closely with Project Controls, Delivery, Finance, HR, and Supply Chain teams to ensure alignment with existing processes
• Facilitate CE&A workshops and reviews with multidisciplinary teams
• Identify and quantify opportunities for cost efficiencies and avoidance across the programme lifecycle
• Track, monitor, and report potential and realised savings
• Promote a consistent understanding of CE&A principles across the organisation
• Support integration with cost management, risk & opportunity, and performance programmes
• Represent SZC as an industry leader in Project Controls through knowledge sharing and best practice
 
 
About You
 

We are open to candidates from a range of backgrounds, including Project Controls, Cost Management, Estimating, Programme Delivery, or Lean environments.


Essential


• Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline (e.g. finance, engineering, project management, construction)
• Proven experience implementing processes and systems on large, complex infrastructure projects
• Strong understanding of Project Controls and cost management principles
• Experience facilitating workshops and working with multidisciplinary teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Delivery-focused and solutions-driven mindset
 

Desirable

 
• Lean Six Sigma or similar continuous improvement experience
• Experience within Project Controls assurance activities
• Knowledge of NEC and/or FIDIC contracts
• Professional membership (e.g. AACE, APM, PMI)
• Experience working in nuclear or highly regulated environments
 

Why Join Sizewell C?

 
Be part of a once-in-a-generation infrastructure project
Create and shape a new, best-practice function within Project Controls
Work in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment
Competitive salary and market-leading benefits package

 

 

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.

 

 

Cost Efficiency & Avoidance Lead - Project Controls
Sizewell C
 

Location: London (2-3 days per week) with occasional travel to Suffolk

Contract: Permanent, full-time

Salary: £80,000 - £90,000 per annum (depending on experience) + benefits

Bonus: Up to 5%

Annual Leave: 28 days + bank holidays (rising to 30 days after 5 years)

Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution


Closing Date: Thursday 28th May 2026


Shape the Future of Cost Excellence on a Landmark Infrastructure Project


Sizewell C is a nationally significant clean energy project and a key part of the UK’s journey to Net Zero. Within Project Controls, we are building a centre of excellence that drives performance, delivers insight, and enables successful project delivery.

 
We are seeking a Cost Efficiency & Avoidance (CE&A) Lead to establish a pioneering function focused on reducing cost and maximising value across the project and its supply chain.

 
The Role
 

This is a unique opportunity to design, implement, and embed a Cost Efficiency & Avoidance framework that will influence the entire Sizewell C programme.

 
You will ensure a proactive, structured approach to identifying, quantifying, and realising both cost efficiencies and cost avoidance opportunities, helping to drive best-in-class performance across a complex infrastructure environment.


What You’ll Be Doing


• Lead the development and implementation of the CE&A framework across SZC
• Establish procedures, processes, tools, reporting, and training to support delivery
• Work closely with Project Controls, Delivery, Finance, HR, and Supply Chain teams to ensure alignment with existing processes
• Facilitate CE&A workshops and reviews with multidisciplinary teams
• Identify and quantify opportunities for cost efficiencies and avoidance across the programme lifecycle
• Track, monitor, and report potential and realised savings
• Promote a consistent understanding of CE&A principles across the organisation
• Support integration with cost management, risk & opportunity, and performance programmes
• Represent SZC as an industry leader in Project Controls through knowledge sharing and best practice
 
 
About You
 

We are open to candidates from a range of backgrounds, including Project Controls, Cost Management, Estimating, Programme Delivery, or Lean environments.


Essential


• Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline (e.g. finance, engineering, project management, construction)
• Proven experience implementing processes and systems on large, complex infrastructure projects
• Strong understanding of Project Controls and cost management principles
• Experience facilitating workshops and working with multidisciplinary teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Delivery-focused and solutions-driven mindset
 

Desirable

 
• Lean Six Sigma or similar continuous improvement experience
• Experience within Project Controls assurance activities
• Knowledge of NEC and/or FIDIC contracts
• Professional membership (e.g. AACE, APM, PMI)
• Experience working in nuclear or highly regulated environments
 

Why Join Sizewell C?

 
Be part of a once-in-a-generation infrastructure project
Create and shape a new, best-practice function within Project Controls
Work in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment
Competitive salary and market-leading benefits package

 

 

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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