Project Manager ( Stakeholder Management)

The UK’s nuclear sector has entered a renaissance, with Nuclear Energy now a vital component as the country moves towards a target of Net Zero.

Assystem provides critical support to this mission, accelerating the decommissioning and remediation of our legacy assets with a view to enabling a swifter energy transition, in parallel overcoming some of the largest engineering and environmental challenges of our generation.

As a Global top 3 independent nuclear engineering organisation, Assystem is active across the full decommissioning lifecycle. In the UK, we work across the Civil and Defence nuclear estates, pioneering agile and fit-for purpose, customer-focused solutions, drawing on our established pedigree for delivery engineering excellence. Assystem have a proud heritage gained over decades both in the UK and overseas, (delivering, supporting, managing) some of the most complex engineering projects in decommissioning, repurposing legacy assets and key new build projects such as Hinkley Point C. 

Summary of the Role

This stakeholder management role is based within a Major Project Capability Integration team at Helensburgh and is responsible to  Assistant Head Capability Integration.

This is a key role throughout the project lifecycle, proactively facilitating the bridge between the project delivery workstreams and end user stakeholders to ensure that activities are planned and completed to enable site readiness.

Facilitating stakeholder management and subsequent engagement to ensure integration between Programme and Naval Base stakeholders through systematic identification and analysis of stakeholders, understanding the impact on stakeholders to improve the likelihood of their adoption of the change, the planning and conduct of interactions to engage and communicate with them, ensuring their involvement and contribution throughout the project lifecycle at the correct time whilst supporting integration activities to existing facilities, governance and process.

Infrastructure project delivery is a challenging environment, with interdependencies between a number of programmes and projects against the need to maintain the military outputs of an operational naval base. The candidate will be required to deliver at pace and demonstrate effective application of programme and project management skills, tools and techniques.

TASKS

• 🔍 Stakeholder Analysis – Identify stakeholders, choose best communication channels, support workshops & strategy input

• 👤 Profiling – Map stakeholder needs, influence & involvement, maintain profiles/templates

• 🔗 Co-ordination & Comms – Link stakeholders and project teams, ensure compliance & timely updates

• 📅 Engagement Planning – Develop engagement plans, align with schedule, manage activities & feedback

• ⚠️ Risk & Issues – Identify risks and apply mitigation actions

• 📋 Requirements – Capture and coordinate user requirements

• 📊 Reporting – Provide status updates for management

Essential:

• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in either a stakeholder manager, change manager, PM or APM role
• Have a sound knowledge of stakeholder, change and project management activities
• Able to objectively analyse data and information to form a big-picture view
• Process detailed information to identify relevant key points to brief seniors
• Organisational and leadership skills
• Working experience of risk and schedule activities for infrastructure works
• Hands on experience of ensuring delivery and stakeholder management in project management
• Good IT skills including MS 365 appliances
• Experience of working as part of a collaborative environment

Desirable:

• In-depth knowledge of the project delivery industry/framework
• Ability to communicate effectively at executive level
• Ability to be agile and react to changes in the business environment
• Experience of managing stakeholders and delivery in complex live operational environment
• Experience of having worked in either a Stakeholder, Business Change or Integration role within in a government project delivery environment

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Qualifications and professional memberships that would be advantageous:

• APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ)
• Managing Successful Programmes Foundation/Practitioner
• Management of Risk (M_o_R) Foundation/Practitioner
• Membership of relevant professional body

Why join the community of Switchers?:

🔹 The Group is currently ranked Third in the world for nuclear engineering.

🔹A dynamic career management policy to enable our employees to progress through our five business lines: operations, project, technical, sales and support functions

🔹Provide opportunities to work on exciting, global projects

🔹Access to an employee assistance programme with free mindfulness, health, wellbeing resources and a confidential support line available 24/7 via phone or text

🔹Discount vouchers for days out and restaurants, eye test and glasses vouchers, cycle to work scheme, free flu jabs

Security clearance:

Due to the nature of work to be undertaken applicants will be required to meet certain residency criteria in order to attain a minimum level of UK security clearance if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.

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.

This role is primarily based at HMNB Clyde and due to the nature of the role will likely have access to restricted information or areas which will require a sole UK National Citizen with SC clearance to meet the necessary security criteria.

There is a requirement to be onsite at HMNB Clyde to facilitate workshops, routine meetings and site visits and to engage with the wider NBCC team, this currently is a minimum of 2 days per week and maximum 4 days per week but could require more or less at specific times of the programme and should be flexible to facilitate this business need in agreement with Line Manager. 

There will also be some travel to Kentigern House in Glasgow and potentially external offices of contractors if necessary.

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.