CWP Risk Manager

Sizewell C Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Bonus 5% annual incentive

Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% (em

Holiday: 28 days + bank holidays

Job summary

Sizewell C Limited seeks a Risk Manager to join the PMO and enhance risk processes across SZC delivery programmes. You’ll work under the Senior Risk Manager to deploy and improve PMO risk controls and governance, ensuring timely delivery and compliance with calendars and deadlines.

The role offers hybrid working in London, with a circa £90,000 salary, a 5% annual incentive, a pension scheme, and 28 days of holiday plus bank holidays.

Qualifications

• Project management and broader project controls experience desirable.
• Good technical skills; able to deliver QRAs with support (Cost and Schedule).
• Ability to integrate project controls with delivery and finance processes.
• Experience with client/contractor/consultancy or government environments.
• Exposure to major projects or corporate delivery contexts.

Responsibilities

• Operate Integrated Project Controls (Risk) processes in collaboration with the Senior Risk Manager.
• Assist with tasks and deputise at key delivery programme meetings as needed.
• Plan/co-ordinate risk activities (EAC updates, ERRs, QRA development).
• Prepare monthly risk dashboards and support forecasting and performance insights.

Skills

Project management

Project controls

Risk management

Facilitation

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

QRAs

Cost QRAs

Schedule QRAs

Job description

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.

Location:

London

Contract:

Permanent, full-time.

Closing Date:

Thursday 3rd September 2026

Location: London – hybrid, full time, minimum 3 days per week in the office
Salary: Circa £90,000 depending on experience

Bonus: 5% annual incentive
Pension: Up to 7.5% employee contribution / 15% employer contribution
Holiday: 28 days plus bank holidays

Impact:

SZC Project Controls will serve as a centre of excellence, managing and strategically using delivery performance management information. Our team will enable successful delivery of SZC Project through proactive Project Controls that drives forward-looking solutions to continuously improve performance. As a Risk Manager, you will be working within the Project Management Office (PMO) and will support/ be deployed with one of SZC’s delivery programmes.

Your role will be to support the operation of all PMO risk processes across SZC, reporting to a Senior Risk Manager. This will entail supporting the ownership, deployment, and continuous improvement of all the PMO risk process elements of one of SZC’s delivery programmes whilst helping to ensure we operate and deliver controls within the SZC governance structure, organisation and delivery model. They will help ensure PMO risk activities being carried out in an efficient manner in accordance with calendars and deadlines established on SZC.

Principal Accountabilities, Activities and Decisions

• Support the Senior Risk Manager in operating Integrated Project Controls (Risk) processes.
• Support with tasks directed by the Senior Risk Manager, and the ability to deputise at key delivery programme meetings.
• Support the Senior Risk Manager with the planning & co-ordination of risk activities such as EAC update, ERR preparation, Integrated-QRA development etc.
• Support the Senior Risk Manager with progress reporting including monthly risk dashboard updates, forecast to complete, variance identification, delivery process insights and opportunities for improvement.

Knowledge & Skills

Proven facilitation skills; able to independently facilitate workshops within programme.

Good technical skills; able to independently deliver QRAs, spanning Cost QRAs and Schedule QRAs

Linked capability to integrate/ support breadth of project controls/ project delivery/ business support processes (e.g. Finance)

Good engagement skills; able to independently engage teams of: Range of project and corporate professionals

Qualifications & Experience

• Project management and broader project controls experience desirable.
• Good technical skills; able to deliver QRAs with support, spanning Cost QRAs and Schedule QRAs
  • Linked capability to integrate/ support breadth of project controls/ project delivery/ business support processes (e.g. Finance)
• Possible risk management/ other technical/ capital-intensive sector-specific management qualifications
  • Good client/ contactor/ consultancy/ government experience
  • Good major project/ corporate experience

Why Join Us

• A major infrastructure project with national impact
• Hybrid working with flexibility built in
• Competitive salary,bonusand 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.
• 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.
• 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.