Operations Readiness Lead - Major UK Energy Project

Sizewell C Limited; Leiston; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Bonus

Pension

Life assurance

Job summary

Sizewell C Limited is seeking an Operations Preparation Manager to help shape the future Operations organisation, focusing on readiness, governance and capability across the project lifecycle.

The role offers senior leadership exposure, coordination across disciplines and a path toward operational readiness for one of the UK's largest infrastructure projects. Site-based with some early flexibility for project needs.

Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent planning, organisational and problem-solving capability.
• Proven track record of developing and enhancing processes, procedures and ways of working.
• Strong analytical thinking and decision-making capability.
• Excellent communication skills, able to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with other senior members of the pre-operations team to deliver operational readiness objectives, supporting activities across multiple disciplines where required.
• Develop and implement operational readiness arrangements to support future station operations.
• Establish operational processes, procedures, standards and supporting documentation.
• Develop workforce plans, recruitment strategies, competence frameworks and training programmes.
• Define operational readiness criteria and support commissioning and handover activities.
• Provide operational input into design, construction and commissioning decisions.
• Support leadership development, succession planning and long-term organisational capability.
• Drive continuous improvement, operational excellence and organisational learning.
• Ensure operational requirements are embedded throughout the project lifecycle.
• Define operational readiness criteria and support commissioning, system handover and operational transition activities.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Planning & organisation

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Influence stakeholders

Continuous improvement

Safety culture awareness

Education

Engineering/Technical/Scientific degree

Job description

Sizewell C Limited is seeking an Operations Preparation Manager to help shape the future Operations organisation, focusing on readiness, governance and capability across the project lifecycle.

The role offers senior leadership exposure, coordination across disciplines and a path toward operational readiness for one of the UK's largest infrastructure projects. Site-based with some early flexibility for project needs.