Hold Point Manager

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Hold Point Manager

Are you confident in managing the timely delivery of evidence and influencing senior stakeholders to meet critical project milestones? Are you experienced in navigating complex regulatory requirements while ensuring compliance with nuclear site licence conditions? Are you skilled at balancing competing demands and mentoring others to achieve high-quality outcomes in a high-pressure project environment?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as our next Hold Point Manager here at Hinkley Point C!

The Opportunity

As our next Hold Point Manager, your role is pivotal in ensuring the seamless delivery of evidence required for the timely discharge of primary and secondary hold points within the HPC Pre-Operations function. This role involves managing cross-functional collaboration to secure high-quality evidence aligned with programme requirements for hold point releases.

A critical aspect of the role is ensuring the sufficiency and quality of evidence supporting the release of hold points on the HPC construction site, playing a key role in aligning operational readiness with programme milestones.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a salary starting from £76,000 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 will be doing

The Hold Point Manager plays a crucial role in coordinating with the commissioning and Pre-Operations teams, ensuring that hold points are released efficiently and meet the required quality standards to enable construction progress. With this, your responsibilities include:

• Drive the timely delivery of defined hold points, ensuring they meet high-quality standards.
• Coordinate with multiple stakeholders across the business to secure necessary evidence, influencing senior-level stakeholders and peers outside direct authority.
• Assess and challenge evidence across various topics, providing constructive feedback on its adequacy.
• Balance business demands with workload to optimise hold point releases, aligning with programme timelines.
• Mentor and coach project teams on implementing effective hold point management to support commissioning activities and the transition into operations at HPC.
• Present and justify evidence to the Hold Point Panel, Delivery Team, and Regulators as needed, ensuring a clear and robust case for hold point release.
   

Who you are

To be successful in this role, we’re looking for you to have experience successfully delivering results within a large-scale project and a proven ability to manage delivery effectively in a matrixed organisational structure. This includes coordinating across teams, balancing competing priorities, and ensuring objectives are met efficiently in complex environments. Additional requirements also include:

• Strong knowledge of UK regulatory requirements and nuclear site licence compliance. Ideally also having knowledge of the ONR Nuclear Site Licence Conditions.
• Skilled at identifying key stakeholders and decision-makers, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality outcomes across projects and within the broader EDF organisation.
• Exceptional stakeholder management abilities, capable of building trust-based relationships across all levels of EDF Energy and the construction industry.
• Proactive and independent, adept at anticipating issues and crafting innovative solutions to overcome unexpected challenges.
• Proven problem-solving expertise in technical matters, with a track record of effectively addressing complex issues.
   

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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.