Overview
Construction Manager – Electrical – Leiston, IP16, United Kingdom
Job Description
Sizewell C. The power of good for Britain.
Location: Sizewell C, site-based 5 days a week in Leiston, Suffolk ( occasional weekend work will be required).
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
Salary: Competitive depending on experience, plus benefits.
Benefits include:
- Annual Leave: 28 days per annum, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service, plus bank holidays.
- Bonus: Up to 5% annual bonus.
- Pension Contributions: Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with up to 7.5% employee contribution /15% employer contribution.
- Flexible Benefits: Additional allowance for a variety of benefits including health, financial wellbeing, and lifestyle choices.
Closing date: Friday 20 February 2026.
We’re looking for a Construction Manager (Electrical) to oversee the reconstruction and delivery of a key section of the SZC works. You’ll ensure safety, quality, and efficiency across all construction activities, working closely with contractors, regulators, and internal teams.
If you thrive in a dynamic, technically complex environment and excel at delivering large-scale construction projects, we want to hear from you!
This is your chance to play a pivotal role in the Sizewell C (SZC) project – the UK’s next-generation nuclear power station that’s shaping the future of sustainable energy.
What You’ll Be Doing:
As a Construction Manager, you’ll oversee the re-construction of a key section of the SZC works. you’ll lead the charge in ensuring safety, efficiency, and on-time delivery. From tactical logistics planning to stakeholder engagement, your role will encompass the entire construction lifecycle, including:
Team Leadership: Strategic Execution: you will be helping the PM TO Develop and implement detailed construction strategies and plans.
Project Oversight: To deliver new Projects into Sizewell C Project with Safety and quality at the forefront of our works.
Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborating with contractors, regulators, and government bodies to ensure project success.
Continuous Improvement: Driving innovation and embedding lessons learned to ensure world-class project delivery.
Good knowledge of CDM Regulations and a proven track record of their implementation.
What We’re Looking For:
We need a proven leader with a strong track record of delivering large, technically complex construction projects. The ideal candidate will bring:
- Industry Expertise: Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, on projects, and working within regulated environments.
- Management Skills: Supervising Tier 1 contractors and team members.
- Leadership Capabilities: Ability to inspire teams, resolve complex issues, and foster collaboration.
- Technical Knowledge: Familiarity with construction methodologies, CDM Regulations, and earned value management tools.
- Strong Communication: Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and presentation skills to engage stakeholders effectively.
Electrical CM – Essential Experience
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Previous experience working with 11kV, 33kV, and 132kV installations
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Proven background in electrical substation construction and commissioning, typically involving HV projects
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Witness electrical systems being installed, tested, and commissioned to specification
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Ability to read and interpret construction drawings
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Strong understanding of electrical design and equipment testing
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Experience witnessing electrical systems being installed, tested, and commissioned to specification
- SMSTS, CSCS -site manager card- essential
- Degree and chartered status in an engineering, construction, or other related field desirable. If the above sounds like you, then we’d love to hear from you!
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.
- 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.
Additional Information
Join the team at Sizewell C. Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear.
The Sizewell C team is one of the most exciting and largest new megaprojects in the UK, whilst being at the forefront of the UK’s climate change agenda and energy policy. We have begun constructing a 3.2-gigawatt nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast in the East of England replicating, wherever possible, the design used for Hinkley Point C, another nuclear power station being built in Somerset.
When built, Sizewell C will be one of the largest power stations to operate in the UK. The power station will generate low carbon electricity for at least 60 years, supplying over 6 million homes and supporting around 7% of the UK’s current electricity needs.
Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear. We want Sizewell C to define what good leadership for the nuclear industry and British infrastructure looks like and deliver on it. We understand the feats of organisation, logistics, collaboration and imagination that building nuclear requires. We are building for the next generation for their home-grown energy, energy price stability and ultra-low carbon power in abundance. We also want to set the benchmark for maximising long-lasting social value as we build and demonstrate how smart collaboration can work for the benefit of communities – locally, regionally and nationally.
We are the first nuclear power station in the UK to be funded under the Regulated Asset Base funding model (RAB). Our largest shareholder is the UK Government, alongside equity partners La Caisse, Centrica, EDF and Amber Infrastructure.
Sizewell C operates within a complex and fast-moving stakeholder environment, engaging with a wide range of partners including government bodies, regulators, local communities, supply chain partners, and international collaborators. This makes Sizewell C a uniquely stimulating place to work — where navigating evolving priorities, balancing interests, and building trusted relationships is just as critical as technical excellence. For those who thrive in dynamic, multi-dimensional settings, it offers unmatched professional challenge and growth.
When joining Sizewell C, 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.
At Sizewell C we encourage and embrace diversity and how it can improve our experience and performance at work. It is a requirement that those who join us have the right to work in the UK. Whilst sponsorship may be a possibility that we can explore, we are fully committed to local recruitment where possible, and those already holding the right to work in the UK.
To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least three of the past five years.
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.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
