About the Role Electrical Engineering Manager Full Time, Permanent Position, 4 days a week in office (Bridgwater/Bristol/HPC) Are you confident in leading and coordinating electrical engineering activities across complex projects while ensuring technical excellence and compliance with industry standards? Are you experienced in managing stakeholder relationships, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving solutions to technical challenges in an electrical engineering environment? Are you able to navigate fast-paced project demands, balancing safety, quality, and efficiency while maintaining a strategic focus on project objectives? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as our next Electrical Engineering Manager here at HPC The opportunity As our next Electrical Engineering Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in leading end-to-end engineering activities for their MEH discipline, reporting to the Head of MEH Engineering and aligning with the priorities set by the Programme Delivery Manager. As the ‘Controlling Mind’ in your discipline, you’ll drive swift and effective decision-making—either directly within your delegation or by facilitating input from key stakeholders when needed. You’ll provide strategic direction and leadership across the entire design and engineering lifecycle, ensuring projects stay on track, risks are managed, and the best solutions are implemented while always safeguarding the Nuclear Safety Case. As a natural problem solver, you’ll build strong relationships with stakeholders and champions collaboration to deliver results. You are also responsible for overseeing the review and acceptance of design through to HO4 (handover to commissioning), ensuring seamless project execution. Pay, benefits and culture Alongside a salary of £90,000 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 an Engineering Manager, you will develop a comprehensive, end-to-end vision for engineering support, ensuring decisions are made with the full project lifecycle in mind—from design through to commissioning. You will be responsible for the timely delivery of key project handovers (HO1 to HO4), working closely with the MEH JV and site teams to integrate engineering with construction, minimising rework costs. Managing technical issue resolution, you will engage with Nuclear Services when the HPC Safety Case is impacted. Additionally, you will oversee configuration management, ensuring data integrity and controlling component holds and releases to prevent scrappage or rework. You will also be accountable for budget control within the Responsible Designer (RD) contract, ensuring efficient resolution of engineering-related contractual matters, including TQs, EWNs, and CEs. Additional responsibilities include: Take ownership of Design Change submissions and establish a process to prioritise and resolve queries efficiently, ensuring smooth manufacturing and installation operations. Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver all engineering deliverables on schedule while ensuring continuous engineering support across all phases, including interfacing with the JDO during installation and escalating issues as needed. Ensure Technical Acceptance and associated surveillance are delivered as planned, challenging the level of proportionate surveillance undertaken by the Responsible Designer and Nuclear Services where necessary. Drive technical readiness for construction activities, providing Project Managers with risk assessments, cost/schedule impacts, and expediting the closure of Open Points up to HO4. Manage Engineering-related risks and opportunities, ensuring proper documentation in ARM where applicable, while effectively handling design interfaces and supplier feedback. Support Quality Management by resolving manufacturing NCRs, expediting equipment qualification programmes, and overseeing procurement specifications, Design Change processes, and contractual obligations for bulk procurement and installation contracts. Who you are… To thrive in this role, you’ll need strong numerical and analytical skills, along with a deep understanding of PWR/EPR design and hands-on experience in PWR/EPR construction. A degree and chartered status in engineering, construction, or a related field are essential, as is a solid grasp of CDM Regulations. Experience in project management, particularly with APM Body of Knowledge or PRINCE2 methodologies, will be highly valuable. While not essential, a working knowledge of French would be an advantage. Additional requirements for this role include: Proven ability to provide technical leadership in complex, fast-paced projects while maintaining high safety, security, and environmental standards—ideally within the Nuclear Energy sector or a similarly regulated industry. Strong understanding of integrated management systems, with experience navigating policies, procedures, standards, and documentation relevant to technical and contractual management. Extensive expertise in your technical discipline, including hands-on site experience. Skilled in engaging and managing diverse stakeholder groups, effectively facilitating issue resolution. Excellent communication, influencing, and facilitation skills, with the ability to build strong relationships and maintain effective networks. Applications for this role close: Sunday 9th March HinkleyPointCJobs LI-Hybrid DestinationNuclear EDFNuclearJobs What's in it for you? Success is personal. It's your journey, powered by us. 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