Industrial Relations Professional

Location: Sizewell C Site, Leiston, Suffolk 4 days a week in the office

Salary: Circa £55,000, plus bonus plus, extensive benefits including…

• 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.

Contract Type: Full time, permanent

Closing Date: Monday 16th of January 2026

About the Role

We’re looking for an Industrial Relations Professional to join the Employment Affairs Unit at Sizewell C. This role plays an important part in maintaining a positive, collaborative industrial relations environment across the project. You’ll work closely with our Industrial Relations Manager and partner organisations to ensure our collective agreements are understood, implemented and applied consistently.

You will help uphold strong relationships between the project, our Tier 1 contractors, supply chain partners and the signatory trade unions, supporting a stable environment that enables successful project delivery.

Why Join as an Industrial Relations Professional

Joining Sizewell C as an Industrial Relations Professional gives you the chance to work at the centre of a project where effective industrial relations truly matter. You’ll be supporting collaboration at scale, helping ensure that employers, contractors and trade unions work together in a fair, consistent and constructive way.

This is a role where your communication skills, judgement and ability to build trust will make a real impact. You’ll be involved in shaping working practices, resolving meaningful issues and influencing how agreements are applied across a large and diverse workforce. It’s a rare opportunity to work in a highly complex environment where your expertise can grow, your relationships can strengthen and your work positively contributes to the smooth delivery of a major national project.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting the implementation of the project’s industrial relations strategy and working closely with contractors, trade unions and colleagues across the Employment Affairs Unit.
• Helping ensure compliance with the Sizewell C Construction Agreements, identifying risks early and supporting collaborative resolution.
• Delivering IR‑related projects including the development of training, guidance materials and processes such as the “Way We Work at SZC” guide.
• Providing practical advice based on employment law and industrial relations best practice to support individual and collective issues.
• Working with contractor IR managers to identify emerging issues and support a proactive approach to maintaining a stable IR environment.
• Contributing to reporting, audit and assurance activities to support contractor compliance with relevant agreements.
• Managing day to day relationships with local, regional and national trade unions.

What We’re Looking For

Essential experience and skills:

• Experience in industrial relations or employee relations within a large organisation.
• Understanding of trade union structures and employment law fundamentals.
• Strong communication and relationship building skills, with the ability to engage across multiple stakeholders.
• Experience supporting conflict resolution and handling routine grievances.
• Good judgement, resilience and the ability to prioritise effectively in a complex environment.

Desirable but not essential:

• CIPD qualification or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting large scale change programmes.
• Experience working within construction or engineering environments.

Sounding exciting?

If you’re ready to play a key role in shaping positive and effective industrial relations on one of the UK’s most important infrastructure projects, apply today.

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.