Business Improvement Lead

About The Role

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

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 individuals seeking to enhance their leadership, strategic thinking, and change implementation capabilities.

The salary range associated with this role is between £45,641 - £95,993, and 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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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