Reactor Performance Manager

Job Description

Reactor Performance Manager

Full-Time/Part Time available, Contractual location of Gloucester Business Park & Aztec West (Bristol), 3-4 days a week in office.  

Are you at your best when working outside your comfort zone, driving high-profile topics while using humility to recognise your limitations, engaging others to achieve effective resolution? Are you energised by applying your curiosity to seek out and drive challenging topics? Do you thrive in an environment where you will need to bring clarity and strategic awareness to break through complexity and uncertainty? Do you enjoy leading others to achieve great results? Above all, are you passionate about helping Britain achieve Net Zero?

If so, we want you to join us as our next Reactor Performance Manager, within Engineering Delivery, on one of the most exciting and ambitious projects around as we continue to lead the rebirth of nuclear in the UK.

The Opportunity

At Hinkley Point C (HPC), we’re building two state-of-the-art nuclear reactors—the first in a new generation of power stations in the UK—set to provide low-carbon electricity for around six million homes. This is a once-in-a-lifetime project, and we’re looking for you to be our next Reactor Performance Manager to play a key role in shaping its success.

In this role, you’ll lead major technical initiatives focused on reactor performance, ensuring HPC operates at the highest standards while aligning with the broader EDF water reactor fleet. You’ll take on complex, multi-disciplinary challenges, providing strategic and delivery leadership to drive innovation and operational excellence.

Collaboration is at the heart of this role. You’ll work closely with Nuclear Services, our French business units, and the Commissioning and Pre-Operations teams, helping to prepare for the next critical phases of the project. Your team’s work will directly contribute to delivering strong reactor performance, a vital step toward securing the future of nuclear power generation for Net Zero.

Reporting to the Structural Integrity Area Manager, you’ll play a key role in overseeing complex, technical challenges, providing guidance and support to ensure effective solutions. If you’re looking for an opportunity to contribute your expertise in a collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a salary range 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 the Reactor Performance Manager, you will establish strategic technical leadership of high-profile topics across the Structural Integrity Area within Engineering Delivery for HPC, focusing on best for project outcomes, driving and making decisions focused on Safety, Quality, Time and Cost. You will be involved in a highly diverse array of complex technical topics but will have a particular focus on strategic and delivery leadership for the reactor performance topics. 

Key responsibilities will include:

• Driving and managing topic delivery to meet the needs of the HPC schedule and budget, including strategic/commercial management and budget control.
• Developing (where necessary) and delivering your multi-year topic strategies, ensuring these evolve to address emergent issues, to meet HPC project aims.
• Collaborating across the EDF water reactor fleet to ensure visibility of issues and convergence across your stakeholder community.
• Advocating for pragmatic decision making, aligned with HPC project aims and ensuring technical integrity is maintained. This will involve producing and driving mitigation plans for risks and issues. There will also be a strong focus on optioneering and governance decisions, ensuring these are fit for purpose and made at the right level.
•  Developing and maintaining positive and productive relationships with the necessary Regulatory Bodies for your topics. 
• Producing high-quality streamlined reporting materials, acting as a focal point for technical and business reporting for your engineering topics. 
• Running decision making, governance and configuration committees, making best for project decisions.
• Line management of a small team of engineers including recruitment, training, development and performance management. Ensuring the necessary skills and competencies are present within the team and providing appropriate training when necessary. 

Who you are…

To be successful in this role, we’re looking for you to bring a wealth of knowledge with a technical foundation, ideally with a degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant field. Just as crucial are your leadership skills where we’re looking for you to utilise your ability to unite diverse stakeholders across multiple locations, fostering collaboration to drive technical change effectively. Additional requirements for this role include:

• Proven ability to lead complex technical and commercial change involving multiple stakeholders, with experience managing multi-million-pound budgets while maintaining a strong technical delivery focus.
• Extensive engineering experience across various disciplines (e.g., mechanical, fault studies, hazards, safety case, inspection, materials), with the ability to interpret detailed technical information, extract key insights, and apply them across Engineering Delivery.
• A strategic mindset, with a passion for simplifying complexities and driving meaningful business outcomes.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to seamlessly switch between technical detail and high-level strategy, engaging effectively with stakeholders at all levels—including directors and board members—in a multi-cultural environment.
• A commitment to coaching and developing others, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Broad experience in the nuclear industry, including a solid understanding of nuclear safety cases and the regulatory landscape.
• Being fluent in French (or a willingness to learn) would be advantageous however, not essential. 

If you’re interested in embarking in this role where your blend of technical & problem-solving abilities, leaderships skills and stakeholder management are key to success, we want to see your application! 

Applications for this role close: Monday 10th March

Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero. 

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