Permit Controller (Sizewell C)

EDF; Sizewell; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

EDF is seeking a Permit Controller for Sizewell C to oversee the permit-to-work system on-site, coordinating RAMS, isolations and authorisations. You will manage permit applications, brief recipients, and monitor ongoing permits to ensure safety and compliance in a live warehouse/industrial environment.

The role requires relevant permit-to-work training, CITB HS&E certs, and ability to obtain Sizewell C security clearance.

Qualifications

• Essential permit-to-work training and competence relevant to the role.
• CITB HS&E Operatives certificate or project-accepted equivalent.
• Ability to satisfy Sizewell C security, vetting and site access requirements.
• Experience in safety, operations, facilities, engineering or contractor control.

Responsibilities

• Administer the permit-to-work process, permit register and records for controlled areas.
• Review permit applications for completeness, scope, timing and controls.
• Confirm RAMS, isolations, competencies and authorisations before issue.
• Sign off permits within delegated authority and competence.
• Coordinate simultaneous operations and oversee area access and constraints.
• Brief recipients on conditions, duration, suspension and handback.
• Monitor permits, changes and expiries; manage extensions or reissues.
• Ensure areas are inspected, handed back, and permits closed with evidence.
• Stop work when controls fail or scope is exceeded and document actions.
• Support audits, investigations and improvement of the permit-to-work system.
• Provide reporting on active permits, constraints and compliance.

Skills

Permit-to-work

Safety awareness

Communication

Documentation

Education

CITB HS&E Operatives certificate

Relevant permit-to-work training

Sizewell C security clearance

Tools

RAMS review

Register management

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Permit Controller (Sizewell C)
Wilson James
Sizewell C

Job Responsibilities

• Administer the permit-to-work process, permit register and supporting records for WJ-controlled areas.
• Review permit applications for completeness, scope, location, timing, interfaces and required controls.
• Confirm RAMS, isolations, competencies, access approvals and specialist authorisations before permit issue.
• Authorise or sign off permits only within written delegated authority and demonstrated competence.
• Coordinate simultaneous operations, conflicting work, area access and operational constraints with responsible managers.
• Brief permit recipients on conditions, boundaries, duration, suspension, emergency and handback requirements.
• Monitor active permits, changes and expiries and ensure extensions or reissues follow the agreed process.
• Confirm work areas are inspected, handed back and permits formally closed with required evidence.
• Stop or suspend permitted work when conditions change, controls fail or work departs from the agreed scope.
• Support audits, investigations, trend analysis and improvement of the permit-to-work system.
• Provide clear reporting on active permits, constraints, breaches, overdue closure and decisions required.

Other duties and responsibilities

• Work in accordance with:
  • Wilson James policies, site procedures and training provided.
  • Wilson James core values:
    • We are fair and honest in all our activities;
    • We treat each other with dignity and respect;
    • We are responsible for all our actions and accountable for their consequences;
    • We have an environment that enables and supports effective communication;
    • We will continuously develop safe systems of work to ensure no one is placed at risk in our workplaces.
  • Customer policies
• Carry out any other reasonable request as required by your Line Manager or the Customer

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant permit-to-work training and competence appropriate to the permits within the role's authority.
• CITB HS&E Operatives certificate, or project-accepted equivalent.
• Ability to satisfy all Sizewell C security, vetting and site access requirements.
• Experience in safety, operations, facilities, engineering or contractor control, or equivalent capability.

Desirable

• NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate, IOSH Managing Safely, or equivalent
• Excellent written and verbal communication and record-keeping skills.
• A relevant technical, engineering, facilities or health-and-safety qualification.
• A working knowledge of:
  • A lot work, electrical, mechanical and intrusive-work permit controls
  • Isolation, lock-out and tag-out principles
  • CDM, contractor management and simultaneous operations
  • Warehouse, industrial, logistics or nuclear-regulated environments

Experience

• Practical experience operating or coordinating a permit-to-work system in an operational environment.
• Strong understanding of permit boundaries, isolations, simultaneous operations and control verification.
• Ability to review RAMS and recognise when specialist technical approval is required.
• Confidence to challenge, refuse, suspend or stop work when controls are inadequate.
• Excellent attention to detail and disciplined permit and evidence management.
• Strong communication skills with contractors, supervisors, specialists and operational managers.
• Ability to prioritise competing requests without compromising safety or operational control.
• Experience coordinating work in live warehouse, logistics, industrial or construction environments.
• Good IT skills for registers, workflows, reporting and controlled documentation.
• Sound judgement and understanding that seniority does not replace designated technical authority.

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.