Business Improvement Lead

EDF Energy; Leiston; On-site; GBP 45,000 - GBP 96,000; Full time

Job summary

An energy company in Leiston is recruiting for a Business Improvement Lead at Sizewell B Power Station. The role focuses on enhancing both personnel and plant productivity, ensuring alignment with company and industry practices. Responsibilities include driving improvement activities, engaging with staff, and delivering performance enhancements. Candidates should have at least an HNC in a relevant field, excellent communication skills, and ability to lead effectively. This role offers training and opportunities for career advancement in a dynamic team environment.

Benefits

Enhanced parental leave

Health insurance

Gym membership

Electric vehicle leasing

Season ticket loans

Qualifications

• Minimum qualification is HNC (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline.
• Advantageous if you hold a relevant degree.
• Experience in supporting investigations is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Drive improvement activities across the station.
• Work with station leadership to align local with fleet-wide strategies.
• Identify performance gaps and implement improvement plans.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication

Strong leadership skills

Experience of performance metric monitoring

Competency in Microsoft Applications

Education

HNC or level 4 equivalent qualification

Relevant degree (advantageous)

Job description

About the Role

We’re currently recruiting a Business Improvement Lead at Sizewell B Power Station for our Business Improvement team

The Opportunity

Within the Business department, we are looking for you to join our highly motivated and multi‑skilled team. You’ll be responsible for delivering demonstrable enhancements in both personnel and plant performance across the station, ensuring that business improvement activities are fully aligned with company/station strategy, and industry best practice.

You will interface widely across the site and fleet, supporting peer reviews, business planning and benchmarking. This role offers a development opportunity for individualsseekingto enhance their leadership, strategic thinking, and change implementation capabilities.

Pay, Benefits & Culture

The salary range associated with this role is between £45,641 - £95,993. You’ll be appointed based on the parameters outlined in the Company Agreement as well as your existing salary, competence, experience and qualifications. 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

The successful candidate will be responsible for driving improvement activities across the station and will play a critical role in helping to deliver demonstrable improvements towards our safe, outage, life extension and generation goals. They will work closely with station leadership and fleet functions to align local activities with fleet-wide strategies and best practices.

A significant portion of the role involves engaging with station staff and stakeholders to identify performance gaps, implement improvement plans, and promote a culture of continuous improvement.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Lead the development and execution of the station business plan with clear performance targets, priorities and strategies to achieve industry‑leading performance.
• Coordinate and integrate improvement activities across station departments.
• Drive business improvement by identifying performance gaps, analysing causes and leading corrective and preventive actions.
• Lead activities including workshops, engagement events, benchmarking, self‑assessments and investigations linked to organisational learning/business improvement topics.
• Establish and manage accurate reporting and governance of key performance metrics.
• Interface effectively with WANO, NSRB and other oversight bodies, ensuring robust follow‑up and monitoring of improvement actions.
• Actively participate in fleet peer groups and leadership forums, aligning local improvement activity with corporate strategy and sharing best practice, including Lean principles.

Who you are

The minimum qualification for this role is HNC (or level 4 equivalent qualification) in a relevant discipline and it may be advantageous if you hold a relevant degree.

You will have/will be:

• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Able to build relationships with a wide network of people (both within the station and externally), influence and bring teams together. Strong leadership skills, in or out of work.
• Able to give self-direction and work autonomously with flexibility
• Able to think creatively to facilitate solutions
• Experience of performance metric and improvement plan monitoring, reporting and delivery
• An understanding of organisational learning, performance improvement and business planning processes.
• Competency in Microsoft Applications
• Experience in supporting investigations and delivering engaging workshops or presentations, is desirable

We also encourage applications from all areas not just experience in Nuclear Power so this is ideal if you are looking for a change of career direction. Full and extensive training and support will be provided to the successful applicants.

This is an ideal role for people interested in identifying, influencing and driving change in our organisation to improve performance and/or with an ambition for future senior leadership roles. The role will come with opportunities to deputise for the Group Head.

Closing date for applications is Sunday February 22nd and interviews to follow in March.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) which will, ordinarily, require you to have British residency for the last 3 years.

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