Today, Assystem is among the top three independent nuclear engineering firms worldwide. With over 60 years of experience in highly regulated sectors, the group supports public and industrial stakeholders in the execution of complex and strategic infrastructure projects, subject to high safety and security requirements.
Assystem mobilizes 8,000 experts in 13 countries and intervenes across the entire project lifecycle, in engineering, project management and digital solutions.
Job DescriptionEC&I Responsible Engineer
Warrington
Staff or Contract (Inside IR35)
⚡ EC&I Responsible Engineer (RE)
The RE is fully accountable for all electrical, control & instrumentation (EC&I) engineering within their area, ensuring work is safe ✅, compliant 📋, and fit for purpose 🔧 across the full lifecycle.
They provide technical leadership 👷♂️, set standards, oversee assurance, and retain responsibility for all engineering decisions (including delegated ones).
🔍 Essential Experience
- Proven EC&I delivery in regulated, safety-critical environments ⚠️
- Strong track record of technical accountability & decision-making 🧠
- Experience with:
- PES, Cyber, Instrumentation & Electrical Distribution ⚡
- UK compliance (UKCA, LV, EMC, Machinery) 🇬🇧
- Plant room design & engineering governance 🏗️
- Leading multi-disciplinary teams 👥 and resolving complex risks
- Working with projects, safety, regulators & assurance bodies 🤝
- Promoting safety, quality & compliance culture 🛡️
⭐ Desirable
- Experience as an RE (or equivalent) in nuclear/high-hazard environments ☢️
- Full lifecycle delivery: concept → commissioning → handover 🔄
- Knowledge of SEMS & gated engineering processes 📊
🎓 Essential Qualifications
- Degree (or equivalent) in Electrical, Control, or Instrumentation Engineering ⚡
- Extensive EC&I experience suited to a Responsible Engineer role 👷♂️
- Chartered Engineer status 🏅 (or equivalent experience)
- Ability to meet security clearance & site access requirements 🔐
- SQEP compliant with SR0696 & ED21 standards 📋
⭐ Desirable Qualifications
- Fellowship / senior membership 🏆 of a professional engineering body
- Training in nuclear safety ☢️, functional safety 🛡️, or systems engineering 🔧
- Postgraduate qualification 🎓 in engineering or management
Whilst we encourage applications from all nationalities, Assystem within the UK are subject to security and export control restrictions due to the nature of work to be undertaken.
These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.
NOTICE TO CANDIDATES ON RECRUITMENT FRAUD - We are committed to safeguarding candidates from fraudulent activity associated with our recruitment process. Please note that we will never offer specialist CV writing services, request payment or ask for sensitive personal information during the recruitment process.
We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.
Skills Required
- Degree (or equivalent) in Electrical, Control, or Instrumentation Engineering
- Extensive EC&I experience suited to a Responsible Engineer role
- Chartered Engineer status (or equivalent experience)
- Ability to meet security clearance and site access requirements
- SQEP compliant with SR0696 and ED21 standards
- Proven EC&I delivery in regulated, safety-critical environments
- Experience with PES, Cyber, Instrumentation and Electrical Distribution
- Experience with UK compliance standards (UKCA, LV, EMC, Machinery)
- Plant room design and engineering governance experience
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and resolving complex risks
- Experience working with projects, safety, regulators and assurance bodies
- Promoting safety, quality and compliance culture
- Experience as an RE (or equivalent) in nuclear/high-hazard environments
- Full lifecycle delivery experience: concept to commissioning to handover
- Knowledge of SEMS and gated engineering processes
- Fellowship or senior membership of a professional engineering body
- Training in nuclear safety, functional safety, or systems engineering
- Postgraduate qualification in engineering or management
What We Do
Assystem, one of the world's leading independent nuclear engineering companies, is committed to accelerating the energy transition. We see ourselves as an activist in the development of nuclear energy, convinced that it is an essential part of the fight against climate change. 7,000 switchers, spread in 12 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East are working every day to make the energy switch by accelerating the development of nuclear and renewable energies, power grids, clean hydrogen projects and low-carbon transport. We design and supervise major projects through our engineering activities and accelerate our customers' digital transformation. We also develop new solutions to build faster and improve the performance of complex infrastructures. 55 years of experience have made Assystem a key partner of the world's largest industrial groups: CEA, EDF, ENEC, Enedis, Engie, Framatome, ITER, K.A. CARE, Naval Group, NICDC, Orano, RATP, Rolls Royce, Royal Commission, Sellafield, SGP, SNCF... Assystem is ranked in the Top 3 companies in the nuclear energy sector.
