Organisational Capability Lead

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.

Organisational Capability Lead

Location:  London, Suffolk, Bristol or Manchester, with travel to other offices and sites.

Contract:  Permanent, full-time. 

Closing Date: Friday 1st May 2026

What’s in It for You.

• Salary:  £66,000 per annum, depending on experience

• Bonus: 5% annual incentive 

• Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution 

• Leave: 28 days holiday plus bank holidays 

Overview

The purpose of this role is to lead Sizewell C’s Nuclear Licence Condition (LC 36) Organisational Capability arrangements, ensuring the organisation maintains the structures, competencies and staffing levels required to safely deliver nuclear safety and environmental management activities. The postholder oversees and maintains the Nuclear and Environmental Baseline (NBEB) and leads the end‑to‑end LC36 Management of Organisational Change (MoC) process, ensuring that organisational changes with potential safety impact are consistently well evidenced, assessed and governed.

The position reports to the Senior Organisational Capability Manager in the People Strategy & Governance Function and provides day‑to‑day leadership to the Organisational Capability Team, setting expectations for quality, compliance and delivery across all LC36 processes. It also supports and coaches senior leaders on the application of Organisational Capability arrangements, strengthening organisational governance and embedding capability discipline across the project.

Principal Accountabilities, Activities and Decisions

• Lead and manage the Organisational Capability Team, providing clear day‑to‑day direction, prioritisation, quality assurance, and ongoing capability development.
• Hold accountability for the end‑to‑end LC36 Management of Organisational Change (MoC) process, ensuring all organisational changes are fully documented, robustly assessed, appropriately approved, and accurately recorded.
• Provide expert coaching, guidance, and constructive challenge to Senior Leaders to support the development of high‑quality MoC submissions, with clear rationale, impacts, risks, and mitigations.
• Oversee, maintain, and periodically review the Nuclear and Environmental Baseline (NBEB), ensuring the baseline, associated processes, and annual NBEB Statement remain accurate, evidence‑based, and aligned with organisational milestones.
• Lead NBEB vulnerability assessment activities to shape and manage the Organisational Capability risk profile, identifying capability gaps and organisational vulnerabilities and ensuring appropriate mitigations are developed and implemented.
• Manage Organisational Capability LC36 self‑assessment and audit activities, including preparation of evidence, analysis of findings, and contribution to improvement actions that strengthen compliance and governance.
• Oversee the review and interpretation of Organisational Capability reporting, identifying trends, emerging issues, and risks, and influencing senior leaders to implement remedial and preventative actions that strengthen governance and NBEB compliance.
• Support the LC36 Manager in Organisational Capability contributions to Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and Environment Agency (EA) regulatory engagements, ensuring SZC presents clear, accurate, and evidence‑based information demonstrating that arrangements are fit for purpose and effectively implemented.
• Contribute to Organisational Capability governance forums and committees by preparing high‑quality evidence, updates, and insights, directly supporting and advising Committee Chairs to facilitate well‑informed decision‑making aligned with Organisational Capability arrangements.
• Lead the delivery of Organisational Capability training and awareness activities, equipping colleagues with the understanding and skills required to apply OC requirements consistently and confidently across SZC.
• Drive continuous improvement of Organisational Capability processes and arrangements, ensuring they remain proportionate, effective, and responsive to the evolving maturity and needs of the project.
• Provide Organisational Capability insight to strategic workforce planning, including analysis of critical skills, supply and demand forecasts, and capability risks, contributing to the wider resource strategy.
• Collaborate effectively with stakeholders across the People Function and coordinate SZC’s contribution to cross‑licensee and cross‑industry Organisational Capability activities, ensuring insights, data, and resourcing pipeline considerations are accurately represented in broader industry planning and capability discussions.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

• Demonstrable, in‑depth understanding of LC36 and Organisational Capability governance, including the nuclear, environmental, and other organisational baselines used to evidence organisational capability within highly regulated environments.
• Proven experience advising on and applying capability frameworks to support organisational design, strategic workforce planning, and competence assurance.
• Experience providing expert advice on regulatory compliance under LC36 and related Licence and Permit Conditions, with a clear understanding of interfaces with LC10 and LC12 requirements.
• Highly numerate and analytical, with the ability to interpret, synthesise, and report on complex organisational and workforce data to inform decision‑making.
• Strong communication, coaching, and influencing skills, with experience supporting, advising, and constructively challenging senior leaders within a regulated context.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and develop a small specialist team, setting clear expectations for quality, compliance, delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Strong expertise in organisation design, procedure mapping, and process improvement, with a focus on enhancing governance and simplifying ways of working.
• Experience of records management requirements (LC6) and HR information systems, ensuring accurate management of Organisational Capability and competency data.
• Ability to operate effectively with subjective, incomplete, or ambiguous information, drawing proportionate, risk‑informed conclusions on organisational capability issues.
• Well‑developed stakeholder management and relationship‑building skills across complex programme, organisational, and regulatory interfaces.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience working in regulated or high hazard sectors with organisational capability or organisational governance responsibilities.
• Experience coordinating organisational change processes and assessing structural and workforce impacts.

Desirable

• CIPD or equivalent professional qualification.
• Project or programme delivery experience in major infrastructure environments.

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.