Methods Engineer (Sizewell C)

EDF Energy Limited; Sizewell; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

EDF Energy Limited invites applications for a Methods Engineer at Sizewell C. You will help plan and coordinate construction methods, ensuring safety, buildability and quality while reviewing temporary works and technical designs.

Collaboration with project and design teams is essential to identify risks and deliver robust solutions. Key tasks include developing methods of work, preparing temporary works briefs, and contributing to continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• CSCS Card and regulatory qualifications as required for site work.
• HND/NVQ in a relevant engineering discipline (civil, mechanical, or construction operations).
• Experience in technically complex environments with emphasis on safety, security and environment.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate safe, efficient methods of work with required quality.
• Develop construction methods and review temporary works and designs.
• Identify risks and support quality processes while collaborating with design teams.
• Produce and review earthworks quantities and related documentation.
• Maintain comprehensive records and manage RFIs and design queries.

Skills

CSCS Card

Reading drawings

Safety focus

Stakeholder comms

Education

HND/NVQ in engineering (civil/mechanical)

Tools

CAD software

Temporary works design

Job description

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Methods Engineer
CWA
Sizewell C

The Methods Engineer will help plan and coordinate how work will be carried out safely, efficiently, and to the required quality standards.

The role involves developing construction methods, reviewing temporary works and technical designs, identifying risks, supporting engineering and quality processes, collaborating with project and design teams, and finding innovative solutions that improve safety, cost, and buildability.

Key responsibilities:

Health, Safety & Environmental

• Produce Methodology and Risk Assessments, undertaking periodic reviews.
• Prepare and raise Temporary Works Briefs, ensuring timely implementation.
• Consider buildability hazards and risks, proposing sequencing / alternate design options to minimize delivery risk.
• Develop methods of work that take cognisance of the current design, temporary works available and industry best practice.
• Ensure suitable temporary works design briefs and programmes of requirements are received.
• Review temporary works designs.
• Assist in the investigation of alternative designs and costs.
• Ensure design risks are considered, using Designers Risk Assessments, communicating residual design risks as appropriate.
• Ensure contract-specified checks are carried out and provide Managers with completed check certificates.
• Contribute to continuous improvement, identifying innovative and robust solutions.
• Produce, review and verify earthworks quantities.

Quality

• Support and develop trial scopes to verify designs.
• Support with specification reviews, and review incorporation of trial results into specification updates.
• Maintain a comprehensive filing system for all records.
• Identify and raise technical queries (RFIs), and assist with solutions.
• Track closeout of RFIs.

Commercial

• Consider time and direct cost in Methods solutions.

Qualifications

• CSCS Card
• HND/NVQ in relevant engineering discipline (civil engineer, mechanical engineer, NVQ construction operations)

Experience

• Understanding of technically complex and dynamic environments, with a focus on ensuring high levels of safety, security, and environmental responsibility.
• Experience of working to and meeting tight deadlines, preferably in preconstruction stages.
• Experience and good understanding of the technical and delivery aspects of the scope.
• Ability to read and interrogate temporary works engineering drawings using CAD software.
• Good presentation, influencing and facilitation skills.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to develop relationships and maintain effective networks.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills.

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.