Sizewell C – The Power of Good for Britain

Project Engineer (Technical coordination with Assistant Project Manager responsibilities)

Location: Sizewell C, Leiston, Suffolk (onsite 5 days per week)

Contract: Permanent, full-time

Salary: £40,000 –£56,000 per annum, 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.

Closing Date:  Monday 9 March 2026.

About Sizewell C

Sizewell C is one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects, delivering low‑carbon energy for generations. Joining us means contributing to a project of national importance, supporting energy security, regional growth, and long-term skilled employment.

About the Role

As a Project Engineer, you will play a hybrid role combining technical coordination with Assistant Project Manager responsibilities. You will use your engineering knowledge to support project decision‑making.

Working closely with Senior Project Managers and Project Managers, you will help manage interfaces between engineering, construction, and commissioning teams, support the resolution of technical queries, oversee progress in your work area, and contribute to safe and efficient project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Project Manager in the day‑to‑day delivery of project scope
• Act as the “engineering conscience” within the delivery team verifying intent, compliance, and constructability before work proceeds
• Coordinate engineering, construction, and commissioning interfaces to ensure seamless work package integration
• Facilitate site‑based problem solving and escalate technical/logistical issues promptly
• Monitor site progress, verify completed works, and support quality assurance processes (inspections, NCR management, configuration control)
• Assist with stakeholder engagement and communication activities
• Act as technical liaison between the delivery team and the Site Engineering team
• Support change control processes, ensuring variations are correctly assessed and documented
• Support the Project Manager with project planning activities, package coordination, and day‑to‑day delivery oversight.
• Use your technical knowledge to review and interpret engineering information, ensuring the project team receives clear, accurate input.
• Manage and coordinate engineering queries (TQs/RFIs) with designers and contractors, ensuring timely resolution.
• Contribute to risk, change, and issues management processes, providing technical context to support decision-making.
• Support project governance by preparing inputs for progress meetings, dashboards, and reporting cycles.
• Participate in readiness reviews, assurance activities, and hold‑points with the wider delivery and engineering teams.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong collaboration and communication skills across multiple stakeholder levels
• Excellent planning, organisational, and project management abilities
• Ability to adapt to evolving project environments
• Solid understanding of project engineering principles, ideally within a regulated sector
• Working knowledge of engineering drawings, specifications, and construction methodologies
• Ability to interpret technical documentation and communicate complex information clearly
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Proactive problem‑solving mindset with strong attention to detail
• Proficient in AutoCAD
• Understanding of CDM Regulations
• Knowledge of construction methodologies, project planning, and resourcing
• Ability to translate technical engineering information into clear, delivery‑focused actions for project teams.
• Strong coordination skills with an understanding of how engineering, construction, and commissioning interfaces align in major infrastructure projects.
• Awareness of project controls (cost, schedule, risk) beneficial.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential:

• Degree in Engineering, Construction, or a related discipline
• Experience in a project delivery environment within construction, decommissioning, or another regulated sector (defence, oil & gas, rail, etc.)
• Experience working with multi‑disciplinary engineering teams
• Demonstrated site‑based experience in construction or installation
• Knowledge of CDM Regulations, QA processes, and safety standards (nuclear beneficial but not essential)
• Working toward or holding membership of a recognised institution (e.g. ICE, IMechE)

Desirable:

• Experience in the nuclear industry
• Project Management qualifications (PFQ/PMQ or equivalent)
• Experience supporting Project Managers or package managers in a delivery or construction environment is advantageous.

Why Join Sizewell C?

You’ll join a nationally significant infrastructure programme where you’ll help deliver critical services, work with industry‑leading systems, and contribute directly to securing the UK's long‑term low‑carbon energy future.

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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.

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