Overview
Workforce Employment specialist – Sizewell Suffolk, ip16 4ur, UK
Job Description
Sizewell C. The power of good for Britain.
Location: Sizewell, with some regional travel.
Salary: c£50,000, dependent on experience.
Benefits:
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays
- 5% annual performance bonus
- Market-leading pension (up to 7.5% employee contribution, 15% company contribution)
- Additional comprehensive benefits package
Contract Type: Office-based, with hybrid working flexibility (typically 2–3 days per week)
Working Pattern: Full time
We operate on an office-based contract model, but support hybrid working where possible. This means you’ll need to be based within reasonable travel distance of the office and able to attend in person when business needs require—typically 2–3 days per week, though this may vary by team or project. Flexibility to be on site when needed is essential.
Closing date: Monday 1st September 2025
About Sizewell C
Sizewell C (SZC) is a transformative infrastructure project backed by EDF and His Majesty’s Government, designed to power millions of homes with low-carbon energy. As part of the UK’s clean energy future, SZC will deliver a new nuclear power station in Suffolk, alongside pioneering developments in hydrogen, direct air capture, and desalination.
We’re entering a critical phase—raising capital, securing supply chain contracts, and obtaining regulatory approvals. This is your chance to be part of a once-in-a-generation project that will shape the UK’s energy landscape for decades.
Your role
As the Workforce Employment specialist in the Employment Affairs Unit (EAU), you’ll be at the heart of building the workforce that will deliver Sizewell C. You’ll work closely with Tier 1 contractors, local suppliers, and community partners to connect local talent with meaningful opportunities across the project.
Key Responsibilities
- Help shape and grow the SZC Jobs Service talent pool to meet projected workforce demand.
- Build strong relationships with contractors and supply chains to increase job vacancy flow and successful placements.
- Provide expert advice and guidance to local job seekers through 1:1 support, group sessions, and community engagement.
- Support contractors with candidate shortlisting and screening from the SZC talent pool.
- Liaise with registered SZC Jobs Service partners including colleges, training providers and employers to increase registrations to the talent pool database
- Deliver presentations to mixture of audiences, both project wide and external stakeholders
- Organise and manage local and regional recruitment events to support contractor mobilisation
What You’ll Bring
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven stakeholder and account management experience.
- Strong organisational and communication skills.
- Resilience in a fast-paced construction environment.
- Experience supporting contractors with local labour and apprenticeship schemes.
- Ability to manage data, reporting, and recruitment processes effectively.
- Understanding local labour schemes and have a proven track record of achievement in supporting contractors to take on local people and apprentices
- Strong data management, reporting and process awareness
Desirable
- Understanding of nuclear construction sector competencies.
- Commercial awareness and experience in large-scale recruitment.
- IAG Level 3 qualification or equivalent.
- Experience with SAP Success Factors or similar systems.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a nationally significant project with long-term career potential.
- Help shape the future of clean energy and local employment.
- Work in a collaborative, mission-driven environment.
- Make a real difference in your community.
A full job description is available on application.
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Power in Diversity
Sizewell C is a great place to work, where everyone is welcome.
To fulfil our commitment of doing the power of good for Britain, our ambition is to have a workforce which reflects and benefits the society we are part of and serve. Every worker on SZC, wherever they are, should help to create and experience the right environment where everyone on the team understands, respects and embraces diversity with a culture where everyone is treated with equal respect and are all given equal access to opportunities. By valuing the different points of view and experiences that having a diverse team brings, and by fostering an inclusive climate, we will create a great place to work and a more successful project.
We create the right environment where people feel able to bring their whole selves to work. Whilst working together there is mutual trust and appreciation created through the building of meaningful relationships with one another, aligned with our key values:
Respect: Value the rules and environment in which we operate
Positivity: Positively challenge poor quality and performance
Humility: Be open to other’s points of view and ideas, be willing to debate and to compromise
Solidarity: One team, working closely together and helping each other
Clarity: Communicate clearly and consistently
Everyone is able to get the most from their work and the workplace, and in return, give their best.
Sizewell C Limited (Sizewell C) is nuclear site licensed company whose business is to design, finance, construct, commission, operate, maintain, and eventually decommission the nuclear power plant and related infrastructure at Sizewell C in Suffolk. Sizewell C was formerly under the majority ownership of the EDF Group but is currently majority owned by HM Government and operates as an independent company. EDF remains a key shareholder in Sizewell C and the business therefore maintains close links to EDF as a part of its ‘nuclear family’.
As a Sizewell C employee, you may wonder why you are contacted by colleagues with an EDF email, or see the EDF logo on portals that you access and/or documentation you receive; this is because we have partnered with EDF for the provision of a number of support services whilst we complete a successful transition out of the EDF group.
Additional Information
Join the team at Sizewell C. The power of good for Britain.
It’s not every day you get the opportunity to shape the working culture of what will be one of Europe’s largest construction projects, while also helping Britain to reach its target of Net Zero emissions by 2050. That’s one of the reasons Sizewell C will be unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before, and you’ll need to be an exceptional professional to reach the high standards this critical infrastructure project demands.
The UK is experiencing a nuclear renaissance and Sizewell C – along with its sister project at Hinkley Point C in Somerset – is powering the change. We’re ramping up at pace as we look ahead to the Financial Investment Decision in early 2025, and the start of construction soon after. With government fully on board and public opinion shifting significantly in favour of nuclear, there’s never been a better time to join our project.
By submitting an application to this role, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Sizewell C’s employee privacy policy and EDF’s employee privacy policy. Just to let you know, EDF will be processing and sharing information about your application on behalf of Sizewell C.
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