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.
Job DescriptionOverview of Role
The 3 Basin Project Manager is a key on-site full-time role, 37 - 40 hours per week for an initial 46-week duration. The post holder will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of an approved packages of work using the NEC4 form of contract as directed by the client. In addition to NEC contract management, the Project Manager shall be responsible for ensuring operational capabilities achieved, such as but not limited to, assurance and consent of the various aspects associated with successful delivery of the project, risk management and mitigation, quality assurance along with providing advice to the intelligent customer as and when required.
Tasks
As a Project Manager you need to be able to lead and motivate a diverse team to deliver benefits to Employer.
Equipped with strong communication skills to enable engagement with a wide range of Stakeholders.
Comfortable negotiating a way through conflict and being able to communicate this information back to the Employer and key stakeholders in a timely manner.
Accountabilities
The Project Manager is accountable for overall performance of assigned work packages, including:
- Delivery of assigned packages of work as per the NEC3 ECC contract conditions.
- Cost and schedule performance of assigned work packages.
- Risk management.
Essential Skills and Experience
• Engineering design and construction experience
• NEC4 ECC Experience
• NEC4 ECC Accredited Project Manager
• SMSTS
• CSCS
• Previous experience leading a project as a Project Manager in a highly regulated industry
• Full lifecycle experience from business case approval, design, execution, handover
• Experience of change control, assurance and compliance
• Experience of risk management
• HND in a related engineering/construction/project management discipline
Desirable Skills and Experience
• Association for Project Management Registered Project Professional
• Degree in a related engineering/construction/project management discipline
• Chartership from a related discipline
• CEMAR experience
Additional InformationWhy 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.
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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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.
