People Business Partner

Sizewell C’s business is to design, finance, construct, commission, operate, maintain, and eventually decommission the nuclear power plant and related infrastructure at Sizewell C in Suffolk. Overall, whilst the Company is in the construction phase, the Boards’ principal focus is on the development and construction of Sizewell C on time, on budget and to the highest quality and safety standards. The Company is maturing to meet all these requirements.

Sizewell C is economically regulated by OFGEM under the Regulated Asset Base (RAB) model similar to other UK electricity distribution networks and Thames Tideway.

Sizewell C construction strategy is to replicate the design of Hinkley Point C, using the majority of the same supply chain, but innovating in the way it is delivered to achieve savings in time and cost of around 20%. The CCO will need to be guided by and incorporate lessons learned from the Hinkley Point C commercial delivery to achieve Sizewell C’s ambition.

Following Financial Completion and Revenue Commencement, Sizewell C is fully funded and is owned by; The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero representing HM Government, La Caisse, Centrica, EDF and Amber Infrastructure.

Sizewell C is entering an exciting phase of growth as we mature into an independent organisation and continue building one of the UK’s largest and most important energy projects. We are now recruiting the below position.

People Business Partner

Location: Based in Leiston or Ipswich, 3 days minimum per week, with travel to London as required.

Contract: Permanent, full-time. 

Salary: £56,000 to £65,000 depending 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 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.
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Closing Date:  Friday 15th May 2025

About the Role

Join the heart of the Sizewell C (SZC)project and help shape the future of HR for one of the UK’s most ambitious infrastructure programmes. As an HRBP Consultant, you’ll partner with senior leaders to deliver strategic people plans, drive organisational performance, and create innovative HR solutions that make a real difference.

Responsibilities:

• Leadership Support: Coach and influence managers on organisational problem-solving, culture, all aspects of performance management and people issues.
• Strategy Deployment: Implement HR people plans locally and ensure effective communication and ownership.
• Organisation Design & Change: Deliver restructures, cultural change, and business improvement initiatives.
• Resourcing & Workforce Planning: Support delivery of long and short term workforce planning and partner with recruitment teams to meet large-scale hiring needs. Deliver accuracy across budgeted headcount and forecast costs
• Reward & Recognition: Complete salary reviews, bonus schemes, and reward projects.
• HR Operational Delivery: Ensure managers receive accurate HR advice, data, and transactional support.

What You’ll Bring

Knowledge & Skills

• Results-driven with a strong commitment to continuous improvement across all aspects of work.
• Strategically aware, able to navigate complex environments and align day-to-day HR activities with broader business objectives.
• Influential and confident, with a positive yet challenging approach to engaging senior leaders and line managers and employees.
• Creative and pragmatic, delivering innovative solutions at pace without compromising quality.
• Commercially astute, applying HR best practices in a practical, business-focused manner.
• Expert HR generalist, with in-depth knowledge of employment law and proven ability to apply it effectively.

Qualifications & Experience

• Graduate/Associate member of CIPD - minimum standard or working towards this.
• Ideally proven experience as an HRBP working in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to effectively manage change
• Experience of working with multiple and diverse senior management teams.

Why Join Us

• A major infrastructure project with national impact 
• Hybrid working with flexibility built in 
• Competitive salary, bonus and benefits 
• Clear progression and development opportunities 
• Supportive, collaborative team environment  

Behavioural Competences

Humility

• Recognise the value brought from different cultures and experiences.
• Be open to other’s points of view and ideas, be willing to debate and to compromise.

Positivity

• Positively challenge poor quality and performance.
• Identify solutions at the lowest possible level.
• Encourage others to bring new ideas forward.

 Respect

• Value the rules and environment in which we operate.
• Give and receive feedback with respect.
• Embrace and engage with new people and ideas.

Solidarity

• One team, working closely together and helping each other.
• Empowered teams always looking forward.
• Shared responsibility for delivery the project outcomes.

Clarity

• Communicate clearly and consistently.
• Promote collaboration and team alignment.
• Clearer and faster decision making.
• Drive simplification at all levels.

If this sounds like the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today. 

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.