Design Delivery Manager at EDF UK

London, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

15 Mar, 26

Salary

85000.0

Posted On

15 Dec, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Engineering Management, Nuclear Industry Experience, Leadership, Safety Cases, Budget Management, Cost Control, Commercial Awareness, Configuration Control, Strategic Planning, Problem Solving, Collaboration, Project Management, Design Management

Industry

Utilities

Description

Job Description Location: London or Bristol (minimum 3 days per week) with travel to the Sizewell C site in Suffolk. Salary: £68,000 - £85,000, dependent on experience. Benefits include: Annual Leave: 28 days per annum, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service, plus bank holidays. Bonus: Up to 10% 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. Closing Date: Monday 5th January 2026 Interviews are expected to take place late January. Join Our Team as a Design Delivery Manager with Nuclear Safety Accountabilities. We are seeking a Design Delivery Manager (DDM) to join our team. The DDM plays a critical role in delivering the design of ancillary buildings and systems for Sizewell C, from basic design through detailed design to site handover. This position carries nuclear safety responsibilities defined in the Nuclear Baseline and includes acting as an Intelligent Customer, ensuring all design activities align with the approved safety case and that suitably qualified personnel are involved. Reporting to the Head of Technical Contract Management, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team and external designers, managing design configuration and maintaining stability across the project. You will establish and implement the Sizewell C Design Delivery Management operating model, set priorities and provide clear leadership to achieve results. The role requires independent decision-making, strategic planning and resolution of complex engineering issues while ensuring effective configuration control and compliance with nuclear safety requirements. This is a high-impact role offering the opportunity to shape design strategy, lead a high-performing team and contribute directly to the success and safety of a major nuclear project. What You Will Do as Design Delivery Manager As DDM, you'll hold a key leadership position within the Technical Directorate (TD), managing the Design Delivery Management Team and shaping its strategy and operating model. You will be responsible for setting up, implementing and leading this function to ensure successful delivery of design activities for ancillary buildings and electrical systems not covered by the Nuclear Services Agreement. Working closely with the supply chain, you will oversee and accept design management activities, fulfilling roles such as Principal Designer, Client/Intelligent Customer and Contract Engineering Lead. Your focus will be on ensuring all design work meets safety, quality, time, and cost requirements. You will build and lead a large multi-disciplinary team drawn from Sizewell C and our supply chain partners, providing guidance and support to achieve project objectives. Leading by example, you'll set the standard for behaviours and values, driving collaboration and excellence across the team. Skills A degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Civil Engineering, or a related technical field Proven experience in engineering and programme management within large-scale infrastructure projects. Technical and engineering expertise commensurate with acting as the organisation’s authoritative voice on design specifications. Extensive experience within the nuclear industry, PWR experience preferred. Experience of leadership role (to include budgetary and staffing responsibilities). Experience in working with Safety Cases and in an intelligent customer type role. Experience of budget management, cost control and commercial awareness commensurate with this senior position. The ability to challenge robustly and constructively internally and externally national and internationally people’s behaviour, work methodologies. The ability to balance ALARP or ALARA principles with safety and commercial interests. 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.

Responsibilities

The Design Delivery Manager will lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver the design of ancillary buildings and systems for Sizewell C, ensuring compliance with nuclear safety requirements. This role involves strategic planning, decision-making, and managing design configuration throughout the project lifecycle.