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 DescriptionOverview
Policy & Standards Engineer
🚀 Exciting opportunity to join a newly established Policy & Standards Team within the Design Authority function! You'll play a key role in developing and maintaining the engineering governance framework that supports safe, compliant, and effective project delivery across a highly regulated environment.
🔑 Key Responsibilities
📋 Develop and maintain Engineering Management Arrangements
📖 Produce and update Engineering Policies, Standards and Guidance
✅ Support the delivery of Technical Assurance Frameworks
🔬 Contribute to Engineering Substantiation Processes
✍️ Develop and maintain Design Acceptance Procedures
🔄 Manage Configuration Control Arrangements
⚙️ Support Change Control Processes
🛡️ Ensure compliance with Safety Management Arrangements
📈 Drive continuous improvement in engineering governance and best practice
🤝 Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering and assurance functions
🌟 What You'll Be Doing
- Creating and maintaining engineering policies and standards
- Supporting robust engineering governance and assurance activities
- Developing processes that underpin design authority responsibilities
- Ensuring consistency, compliance and quality across engineering activities
- Providing guidance to support effective engineering decision-making
Qualifications
Who We're Looking For
⚛️ Nuclear industry experience is essential
We're seeking an experienced engineering professional with a background in engineering management, governance and technical assurance rather than detailed design engineering.
🎯 Ideal Background
✅ Engineering Manager
✅ Principal Engineer
✅ Technical Authority
✅ Design Authority Engineer
✅ Engineering Governance & Assurance Lead
🔑 Key Skills & Experience
🛡️ Strong understanding of engineering governance and assurance within regulated environments
📝 Experience developing:
- Engineering Management Plans
- Engineering Arrangements
- Policies & Standards
- Governance Documentation
⚙️ Ability to translate technical and regulatory requirements into clear, practical guidance
🔄 Knowledge of configuration management and change control
🤝 Comfortable acting as an intelligent customer and providing engineering oversight
Additional InformationWhy join the community of Switchers?
As one of the world’s top three nuclear engineering companies, Assystem offers a competitive benefits package:
💥 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
💥 8% company pension contribution
💥 Healthcare cash plan covering dental, medical and physical care
💥 Employee assistance programme with 24/7 mental health support, virtual fitness classes and more
💥 Paid professional and industry membership fees
Preference for candidates based in or around Glasgow.
Remote candidates will be considered if they possess the right level of niche nuclear engineering and policy/standards experience.
SC required to commence role. Sole UK nationals only
Umbrella Contractor or Permanent Staff position
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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
- Essential experience in the nuclear industry
- Experience in engineering management, governance, and technical assurance
- Experience developing Engineering Management Plans and Engineering Arrangements
- Experience developing engineering policies, standards, guidance, and governance documentation
- Ability to translate technical and regulatory requirements into clear, practical guidance
- Knowledge of configuration management and change control
- Ability to act as an intelligent customer and provide engineering oversight
- Security Check clearance required to commence the role
- Sole UK national eligibility
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.
