Job Description

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Senior Commissioning Governance Engineer

Location: Hinkley Point C

Ready to lead commissioning activity on one of the UK’s most ambitious low‑carbon projects? Keen to work in a collaborative engineering environment where your technical expertise really matters? At EDF, Success is Personal – and your career journey is yours to shape.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Commissioning Governance Engineer, you’ll take on a pivotal role at the heart of a programme shaping the future of safe and efficient nuclear commissioning. You’ll be the driving force behind governance and oversight, supporting a complex, high‑profile commissioning programme and ensuring every phase meets regulatory expectations, project requirements and our own rigorous standards.

This is a hybrid role based at #HinkleyPointC, with regular on‑site presence required to support key governance and assurance activities.

This is your opportunity to be part of a mission‑driven governance team focused on ensuring our people, processes and plant are fully prepared for the challenges ahead. You’ll help design and deliver robust governance frameworks, lead assurance activities, and provide expert guidance that empowers the wider Commissioning Operations programme to excel.

You’ll be working in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment where your influence directly contributes to safe, effective and efficient commissioning in a high‑hazard setting. It’s a chance to deepen your expertise in nuclear commissioning, stakeholder engagement and major project delivery, while shaping the governance approaches underpinning one of the sector’s most ambitious programmes.

Who You Are

We’re looking for a Senior Commissioning Governance Engineer who is self-motivated, ambitious and committed to the highest standards of nuclear professionalism and safety. Do you have…

• A strong understanding of nuclear commissioning, major project governance, or regulatory compliance within a high‑hazard environment.
• Knowledge of EPR technology, particularly the commissioning phases involving non‑active testing, hot functional testing, and active commissioning including fuel load and initial criticality.
• Familiarity with a goal setting approach to regulation.
• Experience in technical governance, nuclear safety or major‑project governance.
• Previous experience new‑build commissioning environments or the HPC Project.
• Strong nuclear safety mindset and commitment to high‑integrity governance.
• Confident communicator able to challenge constructively.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Working with commissioning delivery organisation to develop flexible arrangements to step through commissioning phases.
• Performing assurance activities to ensure that the commissioning organisation and arrangements are meeting our operational needs while respecting regulatory requirements and internal standards.
• Engaging with stakeholders to understand what the organisation needs and what challenges we can work with them to address.
• Supporting governance processes by reviewing evidence submitted and providing advice to Commissioning Delivery as to how to fulfil requirements.

Pay, Benefits and Culture

Alongside a salary from £67,000 potential for an annual bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days, and more.

At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that’s unique to you. Here, Success is Personal – it’s your journey, powered by us.

Everyone is welcome at EDF; we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility, and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.

Join us and find your success at EDF!

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Qualifications

Additional information

Success is Personal. It's your journey, powered by us. Join us and drive the transition towards an Electric Britain.

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.