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About the Role
Provide strategic and practical legal advice on all land matters for the Sizewell C nuclear new build project. Support Sizewell C in delivering against its planning requirements, advising on compliance with the terms of its DCO, DoO and any other relevant planning permissions, working closely with the planning legal counsel. Work closely with internal stakeholders, external advisors, government bodies, and landowners to support the timely, efficient and compliant delivery of the project. The role is central to securing, managing, and protecting the land rights required for one of the UK’s largest and most complex infrastructure developments.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and practical legal advice on all land matters for the Sizewell C nuclear new build project.
- Support Sizewell C in delivering against its planning requirements.
- Advise on compliance with the terms of its DCO, DoO and any other relevant planning permissions.
- Work closely with the planning legal counsel.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders (particularly the land, planning and delivery teams), external advisors, government bodies, and landowners to support the timely, efficient and compliant delivery of the project.
- Secure, manage, and protect the land rights required for one of the UK’s largest and most complex infrastructure developments.
Requirements
- Qualified solicitor or barrister (England & Wales) with significant post-qualification experience in planning, infrastructure, property or environmental law.
- Strong experience advising on major infrastructure, energy or development projects.
- Demonstrable experience in land acquisition, property transactions, and compulsory purchase.
- Strong understanding of UK planning and consenting regimes, including DCO processes.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to provide pragmatic, solutions-focused legal advice in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working collaboratively across multidisciplinary project teams.
- Must meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will ordinarily require residency in the UK for at least three of the past five years.
- Must have the right to work in the UK.
Skills
- Land acquisition
- Property transactions
- Compulsory purchase
- UK planning and consenting regimes
- DCO processes
- Drafting
- Negotiation
- Stakeholder management
- Legal advice
- Planning
- Infrastructure law
- Property law
- Environmental law
Location
- Suffolk
- London
- Manchester
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Significant post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Qualified solicitor or barrister (England & Wales)
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive dependant on experience
Benefits
- 28 days annual leave per annum, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service, plus bank holidays.
- Opportunity to purchase extra holiday.
- Up to 5% annual bonus.
- Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with up to 7.5% employee contribution 15% employer contribution.
- Access to benefits portal where additional benefits can be purchased such as private healthcare, discounted gym memberships, electric car schemes etc.
About the Company
- Sizewell C’s business is to design, finance, construct, commission, operate, maintain, and eventually decommission the nuclear power plant and related infrastructure at Sizewell C in Suffolk.
- The Company is maturing to meet all requirements.
- Sizewell C is economically regulated by OFGEM under the RAB model similar to other UK electricity distribution networks and Thames Tideway.
- Sizewell C construction strategy is to replicate the design of Hinkley Point C, using the majority of the same supply chain, but innovating in the way it is delivered to achieve savings in time and cost of around 20%.
- Following Financial Completion and Revenue Commencement, Sizewell C is fully funded and is owned by; The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero representing HM Government, La Caisse, Centrica, EDF and Amber Infrastructure.
- Be part of one of the most important low-carbon energy projects in the UK.
- Work in a mission-driven environment that values innovation, integrity, and long-term sustainability.
- Sizewell C encourages and embraces diversity and how it can improve our experience and performance at work.
Equal Opportunity
- At Sizewell C we encourage and embrace diversity and how it can improve our experience and performance at work.