Head of Industrial Relations (HRE40032)

EDF; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

EDF in the United Kingdom is recruiting for a Head of Industrial Relations on a permanent basis. This leadership role focuses on shaping industrial relations strategy, guiding union relationships, and ensuring workforce stability across projects.

You will partner with HR, legal, and operations to mitigate risks, drive constructive negotiations, and support senior stakeholders in fostering a high-performing workforce culture across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Extensive industrial relations leadership experience.
• Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in unionized environments and workforce relations.

Responsibilities

• Developing and implementing industrial relations strategies that support programme objectives and workforce stability.
• Leading relationships with trade unions and workforce representatives to foster positive, collaborative partnerships.
• Managing negotiations, consultations, and the resolution of complex workforce issues.
• Partnering with HR, legal, and operational teams to identify and mitigate industrial relations risks.
• Influencing senior stakeholders across multiple organisations to support a high-performing and engaged workforce culture.

Skills

IR leadership

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

People management

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Head of Industrial Relations
MEH Alliance

Permanent

Job Responsibilities

• Developing and implementing industrial relations strategies that support programme objectives and workforce stability.
• Leading relationships with trade unions and workforce representatives to foster positive, collaborative partnerships.
• Managing negotiations, consultations, and the resolution of complex workforce issues.
• Partnering with HR, legal, and operational teams to identify and mitigate industrial relations risks.
• Influencing senior stakeholders across multiple organisations to support a high-performing and engaged workforce culture.

Qualifications

• No specific qualification required. Candidates should be able to demonstrate substantial industrial relations expertise and leadership experience.

Experience

• Significant industrial relations experience within a unionised environment.
• Demonstrable experience building and maintaining effective relationships with trade unions and workforce representatives.
• Strong track record of leading negotiations, consultations, and resolving complex industrial relations matters.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders across multiple organisations within complex delivery environments.
• Comprehensive understanding of industrial relations frameworks, employment legislation, and collective agreements.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.