Overview
Temporary Works – Engineer – Leiston
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.
Temporary Works Engineer (TWE)
Location: Hybrid, Leiston, Suffolk (minimum 3 days per week onsite).
Employment type: Permanent full-time.
Salary: £67,000 – £75,000 per annum -dependent on experience
Benefits:
5% CIP bonus
28 days holiday, plus bank holidays
Contributory pension of up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer
Ongoing professional development
Other lifestyle benefits
Closing date: Sunday 25 October 2026.
Are you an experienced Temporary Works professional looking to play a key role on one of the UK's largest and most ambitious infrastructure projects?
Sizewell C is seeking a Temporary Works Engineer (TWE) to join our growing Temporary Works team, supporting the safe planning, coordination, and delivery of temporary works across a complex nuclear construction programme. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a nationally significant project while developing your career within a highly regulated, safety-critical environment.
What You'll Be Doing
Working closely with the Principal Contractor's Temporary Works Coordinator (TWC), you will help ensure temporary works are planned, designed, reviewed and implemented safely and effectively across your assigned area.
Key responsibilities include:
- Liaising with approved Design organisations to grow the library of Sizewell C Temporary Works Standard Solutions
- Aid Contractors to properly implement Temporary Works Standard Solutions
- Acting as Temporary Works Supervisor in accordance with BS5975
- Supporting the review and acceptance of Contractor temporary works design packages
- Co-ordinating with contractors, designers and site delivery teams
- Managing temporary works look-ahead programmes and design approvals
- Supporting temporary works assurance, governance and compliance activities
- Contributing to risk management, health and safety by design, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Supporting procurement and delivery of temporary works solutions
- Building strong relationships across multiple contractors and project stakeholders
What We're Looking For
You'll bring a solid understanding of design management and experience gained within major civil engineering, infrastructure, energy, rail, highways, marine or nuclear projects.
Essential Requirements
- Degree qualified in Civil or Structural Engineering (or related discipline)
- Experience in preparing structural or geotechnical designs on civil engineering projects
- CSCS Managers and Professional level card
- Strong understanding of BS5975 and temporary works procedures
- Ability to apply technical and practical skills (read, understand and implement the requirements of drawings and specifications)
- Experience of using engineering judgement regarding modifying a design or sequencing to deal with risks, opportunities and variances
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Desirable
- Experience acting as a Temporary Works Supervisor
- Experience in preparing temporary works designs on complex civil engineering projects
- Nuclear or major infrastructure project experience in a site engineering role
- ICE membership or working towards professional accreditation
- Experience undertaking quality inspections on site, writing Inspection and Test Plans and Inspection Checklists
- Knowledge of NEC contracts, BIM and digital engineering tools
Why Join Sizewell C?
This is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to help deliver one of the UK's most significant clean energy and infrastructure projects while developing your career alongside industry-leading professionals.
Ready to Make an Impact?
Apply now and become part of the team delivering one of the UK's most exciting infrastructure programmes.
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 tier 1s and 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
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.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
