About the Role
Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater.
Are you an experienced Health and Safety professional ready to take the next step in your career? Do you have a proven ability to identify and engage key stakeholders, influencing continuous improvement across large, complex projects? Are you skilled at building strong, trust-based relationships across diverse teams and organisations, with excellent communication and leadership skills? If so, come and join EDF as a Health and Safety Manager!
The Opportunity
As a Health and Safety Manager in a leadership role working for the Principal Contractor, you’ll ensure the Hinkley Point C construction site and its Associated Developments maintain compliance with all relevant regulatory and organisational arrangements, including the Nuclear Site Licence. You’ll lead the development and implementation of a world-class approach to construction Health, Safety & Wellbeing, by establishing clear processes and standards, and providing strong oversight to ensure they are rigorously applied and continuously enhanced across the project.
Pay, benefits and culture
Alongside a competitive 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
In this role, you’ll deputise for the Head of Construction Health & Safety, overseeing departmental activities and resources to ensure compliance with health, safety, wellbeing. You’ll play an active part in managing emergent health and safety issues on site, while ensuring that work carried out by internal teams, Delivery Partners, and the wider Supply Chain meets the standards set by Nuclear Site Licence arrangements, statutory regulations, and company requirements.
You will lead engagement with the Office for Nuclear Regulation on health and safety matters, coordinating your team’s preparation for inspections and interventions. As part of the leadership team, you’ll also help drive the implementation of Principal Contractor arrangements across the site, overseeing areas such as occupational health and hygiene, lifting operations, and temporary works. Developing and maintaining effective strategies and risk-aligned standards will be a core part of your responsibilities, alongside contributing to the growth of a strong, safety-first culture across the project.
In addition, you’ll support the development and delivery of departmental improvement programmes—harvesting best practices, driving innovation, and using data-driven insights to monitor and improve performance. Expect to manage a £6 million annual budget and ensure your team is resourced, trained, and developed in line with project needs. You’ll also play a key role in supporting emergency preparedness efforts, shaping project-wide safety policies, and delivering strategic objectives in partnership with senior leaders.
Who you are
You have strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to identify and influence key decision makers both internally and externally. You will build and maintain trust-based relationships across EDF Energy and the construction industry, driving continuous improvement across projects and the wider organisation. Success in this role requires excellent communication skills, a results-driven mindset balanced with a collaborative, team-focused approach, and the ability to operate effectively within a large corporate environment. A thorough understanding of national and international HSE standards, CDM Regulations, and experience interfacing with regulators such as the ONR and HSE are essential, along with experience managing dynamic teams in fast-paced settings.
Your qualifications will reflect significant HS experience in leading safety functions within large EPC construction and engineering projects. You will hold a NEBOSH HS Diploma or European equivalent and be a Chartered member of a recognised professional HS organisation. Proven success in achieving excellent safety outcomes in complex operational environments is critical, along with expertise in behavioural management and leadership development. Experience working within large organisations managing process plants and site operations is also required.
A degree or MSc in Health, Safety Management, Engineering or Construction, and higher education credentials focused on Nuclear Safety or Safety Culture is desirable. This combination of skills and experience ensures you can establish a clear vision, develop and implement effective HS strategies, and maintain compliance and safety excellence in a highly regulated and challenging environment.
If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you!
Additionally, you must meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which generally requires you to have been a UK resident for at least 3 of the last 5 years.
Closing date for applications: 19th August 2025
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