Sizewell C partners with Women into Construction for nuclear power project

Announced today on International Women’s Day (March 8, 2024), the new initiative aims to tackle the barriers that might prevent women to access roles in the nuclear industry and enable Sizewell C to more easily recruit potential female employees.

The two organisations will work together to broaden access to Sizewell C through work experience placements, job application support, work placements, progression support, and other opportunities to show the breadth of roles available.

Women into Construction was originally developed in 2012 at the Olympic Park in London to increase the numbers of women working in all areas of the project’s construction, and inspire better gender balance throughout the UK construction industry.

In a statement, Damian Leydon, Sizewell C site delivery director, and formerly construction director of the Athletes’ Village for the London 2012 Olympics, said: “We know that there are barriers that prevent women from moving into construction roles like the ones on offer at Sizewell C: it’s an issue not only facing our project, but many others in the nuclear industry and across construction.