Communications Manager

Communications Manager

Location: Orwell Logistics Park – Hybrid (2 days from home)
Type: Full-time, Permanent

Help shape the voice of one of the UK's most ambitious infrastructure programmes.

The Civil Works Alliance (CWA) — a partnership between Laing O'Rourke, Bouygues and Balfour Beatty — is delivering the full civils scope of Sizewell C, one of the UK's largest and most high-profile nuclear projects.

Reporting to the Head of Communications, the CWA Communications Manager will lead the development and delivery of engaging internal communications across the Alliance, ensuring key messages are clear, consistent and aligned with project priorities. Working closely with the Sizewell C communications team and alliance partners, you will help raise and maintain the CWA profile on site, promote CWA Values and Behaviour Expectations, and support external, digital and crisis communications activity where required.

This is a high-impact role at the heart of a complex major project environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Raise and maintain the CWA profile on site, promoting CWA Values and Behaviour Expectations.
• Source, develop and deliver engaging content for internal communication channels.
• Prepare regular staff briefings and manage content distribution across all CWA platforms.
• Support the Head of Communications in delivering CWA communication priorities.
• Provide guidance and support to wider communications team members.
• Build strong working relationships with the Sizewell C communications team and alliance partner comms teams.
• Work closely with delivery and support teams to ensure timely and effective dissemination of key information.
• Support external communications, digital communications/social media, branding and crisis communications activities.
• Draft and edit content tailored to different audiences across the project.

About You

Essential

• Significant communications experience within a fast-paced, complex environment.
• Experience delivering communications activities on-site for a major construction or infrastructure project.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet strict deadlines.
• A collaborative team player with strong relationship-building skills.

Why Sizewell C?

This is your opportunity to play a central role in shaping communications for one of the UK's most high-profile infrastructure programmes. You will work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where collaboration, innovation and clear communication are critical to project success.

About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com