Job Description

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Systems Lead (Sizewell C)
Wilson James

Salary: £65,000.00-£75,000.00PA

Permanent

Benefits:

• Salary starting from £65,000 (depending on experience).
• 8.5% bonus.
• Travel and lodge allowance.
• Working Monday - Friday
• Annual leave of 25 days per year.
• Life assurance scheme.
• Company sick pay.
• Pension Scheme 5% employer contribution.
• Access to an industry leading Employee Benefits Platform offering lifestyle savings and discounts on most high street retailers, a Reward and Recognition programme.
• Employee Assistance Programme that provides a health and wellbeing support service.
• As an employer of choice, we focus on wellbeing, training, and career progression.
• Employee Referral Scheme

Job responsibilities:

• Systems Mobilisation & Deployment

• Lead the mobilisation, configuration, and deployment of delivery management, logistics, and planning systems in support of the Lead Logistics Partnership at Sizewell C.

• Ensure systems are operationally ready, fully tested, and adopted by users ahead of go-live milestones.

• Coordinate system readiness activities including data migration, system configuration, integrations, user access, training, and cutover planning.

• Validate that no operational, planning, or analytical capability is lost during system transitions or replacement of incumbent platforms.

Operational System Ownership (BAU)
• Act as the operational system owner once live, ensuring systems reliably support day-to-day logistics, access, routing, delivery management, and compliance operations.

• Own system performance in a live construction environment, including availability, data quality, user adoption, and issue resolution.

• Provide hands-on support to operational teams, prioritising service continuity, safety, and compliance.

• Ensure systems reinforce safe systems of work and compliance with DCO, site access, governance, and client requirements.

Logistics Control Tower & Data Enablement

• Own and operate logistics control tower capabilities, providing operational visibility and dataenabled decision-making across logistics and delivery operations.

• Ensure coherent, accurate, and timely data feeds from contractors, hauliers, and operational teams into logistics systems and planning tools.

• Collaborate with functional data owners to assure data integrity, accuracy, and consistency across systems.

• Support the provision of analytics, dashboards, exception management, and KPI reporting to underpin operational and planning decisions

Planning, Capacity & Operational Support

• Support logistics planning and capacity management by ensuring systems provide reliable inputs for short-, medium-, and long-term operational planning.

• Enable visibility of demand, constraints, and mitigation actions through effective use of systems and data.

• Support contingency planning and operational resilience through system configuration, reporting, and scenario insight.

Continuous Improvement & Change Management

• Own the systems improvement roadmap across the LLP lifecycle, aligned to operational priorities and outcomes.

• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, visibility, and compliance through enhanced system use, automation, and data insight.

• Manage system change requests, enhancements, and iterative releases in coordination with operational and technical teams.

• Support the evolution from mobilisation capability to mature, optimised logistics operations.

Business Analysis & Requirements Translation

• Act as a business analyst where required, working directly with operational teams and the client to understand needs and challenges.

• Translate operational and client requirements into clear, actionable system and data requirements for Wilson James Product, Intelligence & Technology teams.

• Validate delivered system changes against operational needs and user expectations.

Stakeholder & Service Management

• Work closely with site operations, planners, client stakeholders, contractors, and hauliers to ensure systems support coherent logistics delivery.

• Communicate clearly and calmly in high-pressure, live operational environments.

• Maintain professional, collaborative relationships across all stakeholder groups.

• Ensure system behaviours and processes reinforce safe, compliant, and efficient ways of working

Qualifications:

• CITB HS&E Managers and Professionals certificate (MAPS) - must be obtained before

Experience:

• Delivery-focused mindset with the ability to influence disparate stakeholders.
• Construction Logistics Expertise: Strong background in logistics operations, providing valuable insights into operational requirements.
• Strong data analytics, and data management, inquisitive with an ability to identify patterns and constraints.
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Effectively communicates complex issues and concepts (unique insights) in simple ways, to both technical and non-technical senior audiences.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with colleagues within and across organisational boundaries to achieve mutually successful outcomes.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Excellent IT skills with a working knowledge of all MS Office packages. (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Project).
• Working knowledge of Business Intelligence Analytics Tools (Power BI/Splunk/DOMO).
• Working knowledge of On-site storage capacity and inventory system.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills at all working and management levels.

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.