Outage Programme Manager

Are you an enthusiastic and passionate leader looking to manage performance delivery during a crucial period of change? If so, this position may be for you!

At EDF, success is personal. Here you’ll develop a career that’s unique to you. Whether you want to move horizontally, deepen your specialty, or advance through the levels — it’s your journey, powered by us. Join us and be part be of our mission to help Britain achieve Net Zero

The opportunity

As Programme Manager, you will coordinate and deliver the Outage Fleet Improvement Programmes (OFIP), ensuring alignment with the 10-year Nuclear Operations Priorities. You’ll lead a team of 15, manage stakeholder relationships, and oversee interdependencies with other organisational projects. Key responsibilities include managing risks, resource allocation, governance, and ensuring timely, within-scope, and on-budget delivery.

You'll collaborate with the Strategic Outage Managers Peer Group and oversee both direct reports and external partners.

This role is flexible with base location, but will require monthly travel across the fleet, working to a hybrid model.

Pay, Benefits and Culture

Alongside a competitive starting salary and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal. 

We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.  

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.  

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.   

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments. 

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal. 

What you’ll be doing

As the OFIP Programme Manager, your responsibilities will include:

• Strategy & Planning: Develop programme strategy, objectives, and success criteria aligned with the organisation’s 10-year Nuclear Operations Priorities; create a roadmap with timelines and milestones.

• Stakeholder Management & Governance: Engage with key stakeholders (executives, clients, partners); ensure programme alignment; establish governance structures for decision-making and oversight.

• Risk & Issue Management: Identify, assess, and manage programme risks and issues; escalate critical concerns with solutions to senior leadership.

• Leadership & Team Management: Foster a culture of inclusion, diversity, and high performance; support Programme leaders and project managers with resources and guidance.

• Budget & Financial Management: Manage the programme budget; secure funding through appropriate channels and ensure financial targets are met.

• Quality Assurance & Benefit Realisation: Track programme benefits and ensure outcomes align with business goals.

• Change Management: Oversee changes in the programme, ensuring alignment, approval, and smooth implementation.

• Closure & Transition to BAU: Manage programme closure, final sign-offs, and transition to business operations; conduct a post-programme evaluation.

Who you are

To be considered for this role, you will need a relevant degree qualification. A chartership of an appropriate institution would be beneficial but not essential.

You will have extensive knowledge of the highly regulated/hazardous industries with a background in an engineering discipline or broad experience covering a range of technical disciplines with proven experience of delivery utilising project management, project control and quality management tools.

A proven track record of senior leadership, working with a wide range of senior stakeholders and showing a demonstrable high level of business acumen and a strong track record of having built personal trust and operating with integrity and with credibility.

You’ll possess exceptional communication skills, the ability to communicate and convey complex information simply at all levels along with excellent presentation, influencing and facilitation skills.

Demonstrable experience is key with the ability to co-ordinate process requirements and resources to ensure full compliance with agreed process.

 Applications close for this role on 26th January, with interviews being held week commencing 3rd February.

For more information, please contact Hannah.clark@edfenergy.com .

Success is personal. It’s your journey, powered by us. Join us and we’ll help Britain achieve Net Zero, together.

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