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 DescriptionYour Mission:
Join this Defence project providing Risk Expertise through a Joint Project Team delivering an infrastructure programme.
We’re seeking a Risk Manager to lead risk identification, analysis, and mitigation throughout the project lifecycle. Reporting to the Programme Delivery Lead, you’ll work across our clients site, and industry partners to manage risks in a complex, fast-paced environment.
You’ll need strong project delivery and risk management skills, with experience handling major infrastructure projects and navigating multiple stakeholders.
What You’ll Do:
✅ Lead the delivery of the risk management process, roadmap, and Target Operating Model (TOM)
✅ Facilitate monthly risk reviews, workshops, and maintain risk registers & dashboards 📊
✅ Support Quantitative Cost & Schedule Risk Analysis (QCRA/QSRA) and quarterly reporting 💸⏱️
✅ Manage project assumptions and maintain the Master Data & Assumptions List (MDAL) 📚
✅ Track mitigation plans and ensure risk actions are delivered 🔎
✅ Collaborate with project leads, suppliers, and partners to manage risks, avoid duplication, and drive delivery
✅ Monitor supply chain performance and flag emerging issues early 🚀
✅ Ensure compliance with client processes and infrastructure requirements 🛠️
Essential Requirements:
✔️ SC Clearance held and available to work on client site 3 days/week 🛡️
✔️ Strong knowledge of risk processes and management
✔️ Ability to analyse data, identify trends, and see the bigger risk picture 🔎
✔️ Experience in infrastructure risk analysis
✔️ Strong leadership, organisational, and stakeholder management skills 🤝
✔️ Proficient IT skills 💻
Desirable:
⭐ Industry knowledge, including competitors/adversaries
⭐ Confident communicator at executive level 🎤
⭐ Agile, adaptable, and responsive to change 🔄
⭐ Experience managing risk in complex, live operational environments
⭐ Collaborative team player across multi-agency teams
Why Join the Switchers Community?
🔹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
🔹Enhanced sick pay
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.
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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
- SC Clearance held
- Available to work on client site 3 days/week
- Strong knowledge of risk processes and management
- Ability to analyse data and identify trends
- Experience in infrastructure risk analysis
- Strong leadership, organisational and stakeholder management skills
- Proficient IT skills
- Industry knowledge including competitors/adversaries
- Confident communicator at executive level
- Experience managing risk in complex, live operational environments
- Agile, adaptable, and responsive to change
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.
