Clerical Assistant

EDF Energy; Leiston; Remote; GBP 34,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced parental leave

Electric vehicle leasing

Health insurance

Product discounts

Critical illness insurance

Technology vouchers

Gym membership

Season ticket loans

Job summary

EDF Energy's Sizewell B site is seeking an Operations Main Control Room Clerk to support safe, efficient plant operation by coordinating staffing, maintaining schedules, supporting emergency planning, and delivering comprehensive clerical assistance.

You will collaborate with Operations Management, Shift Teams and multiple station departments to ensure requirements are met, while upholding Site Licence Conditions, procedures, document control and audit readiness.

Qualifications

• Strong organisational and administrative skills.
• Experience coordinating schedules, rotas, or staffing arrangements.
• Excellent attention to detail and record management capabilities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to prioritise workloads and work effectively under pressure.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications and business management systems.
• Knowledge of document control, compliance, auditing, and finance would be advantageous.
• Experience in regulated industries such as nuclear, energy, utilities, engineering, or manufacturing would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Ensure shift staffing levels are maintained in accordance with Site Licence requirements.
• Update staffing records, communicate staffing changes, and coordinate cover arrangements.
• Create and maintain shift cover requests and Operations shift rotas.
• Develop and administer annual and weekly Emergency Scheme Standby Rotas for Station Emergency Personnel.
• Support Operations Managers with departmental projects and improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate departmental budgets, including raising requisitions and managing office consumables, PPE, and uniform requirements.
• Place orders for operational consumables, including oils and chemicals, and prepare associated delivery documentation.
• Ensure departmental facilities and resources are maintained effectively.
• Represent the Operations Department as a member of the Commodities Working Group.
• Act as the Corrective Action Programme (CAP) Evaluator for Operations.
• Producing meeting minutes, action trackers, and follow-up communications.
• Managing calendars, appointments, and meeting schedules.
• Booking meeting rooms, facilities, and resources.
• Preparing reports, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• Support document management and rationalisation activities.
• Maintain operational records, filing systems, archives, engineering changes, and audit documentation.
• Manage Operations key registers and key issue processes.
• Liaising with station personnel, contractors, and external stakeholders.
• Provide clerical and administrative support to the Operations Department and other Station Departments as required.
• Support station activities as part of the Operations Team during refuelling and forced outages.

Skills

Organisational skills

Administrative skills

Schedule coordination

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Record management

Microsoft Office

Business systems

Regulated industry knowledge

Job description

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Operations Main Control Room Clerk to join the Operations Department at Sizewell B.

The Opportunity

This role plays a vital part in supporting the safe and efficient operation of the station by coordinating staffing arrangements, maintaining operational schedules, supporting emergency planning arrangements, and providing comprehensive clerical and administrative support.

The successful candidate will work closely with Operations Management, Shift Teams, and wider station departments to ensure operational requirements are met while maintaining compliance with Site Licence Conditions and station procedures.

Pay, benefits and culture

The salary range associated with this role is £33,891 to £50,950 and you will be appointed based on the parameters outlined in the Company Agreement as well as your existing salary, competence, experience and qualifications.We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.
At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.
Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.
We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you’ll be doing

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure shift staffing levels are maintained in accordance with Site Licence requirements.
• Update staffing records, communicate staffing changes, and coordinate cover arrangements.
• Create and maintain shift cover requests and Operations shift rotas.
• Develop and administer annual and weekly Emergency Scheme Standby Rotas for Station Emergency Personnel.
• Support Operations Managers with departmental projects and improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate departmental budgets, including raising requisitions and managing office consumables, PPE, and uniform requirements.
• Place orders for operational consumables, including oils and chemicals, and prepare associated delivery documentation.
• Ensure departmental facilities and resources are maintained effectively.
• Represent the Operations Department as a member of the Commodities Working Group.
• Act as the Corrective Action Programme (CAP) Evaluator for Operations.
• Producing meeting minutes, action trackers, and follow-up communications.
• Managing calendars, appointments, and meeting schedules.
• Booking meeting rooms, facilities, and resources.
• Preparing reports, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• Support document management and rationalisation activities.
• Maintain operational records, filing systems, archives, engineering changes, and audit documentation.
• Manage Operations key registers and key issue processes.
• Liaising with station personnel, contractors, and external stakeholders.
• Provide clerical and administrative support to the Operations Department and other Station Departments as required.
• Support station activities as part of the Operations Team during refuelling and forced outages.

Who you are

• You will have strong organisational and administrative skills.
• Experience coordinating schedules, rotas, or staffing arrangements.
• Excellent attention to detail and record management capabilities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to prioritise workloads and work effectively under pressure.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications and business management systems.
• Knowledge of document control, compliance, auditing, and finance would be advantageous.
• Previous experience within a regulated industry such as nuclear, energy, utilities, engineering, or manufacturing would be beneficial.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) which will, ordinarily, require you to have British residency for the last 3 years.

Closing date for applications is Wednesday October 28th, and interviews will follow mid to late November.

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