Company Description
⚡️💡 About Assystem
Assystem is an international leader with one mission: accelerate the global energy transition. Every day, our 7,550 Switchers across 12 countries apply their expertise in highly regulated industries to tackle the task of the century — switching to low-carbon energy. Drawing on over 55 years’ experience in complex, safety-critical environments, we deliver engineering, digital, and project management services to optimise infrastructure performance across its life cycle. Ranked second worldwide in nuclear engineering, we are building a sustainable, reliable, low-carbon future.
🤝 Why Join the Community of Switchers?
At Assystem, you’ll join one of the three largest nuclear engineering companies globally. Your future team will support mission-critical programmes in highly regulated environments, helping deliver complex projects safely, efficiently, and innovatively. Together, we’ll share expertise, drive best practice, and shape a resilient low-carbon energy future.
Job Description
🚀 The Job Mission
This role supports the delivery of high-value nuclear and energy projects, ensuring effective integration across planning, resources, contracts, and stakeholders.
You’ll work alongside Senior Project Managers to deliver complex work packages.
Your future team ensures safety, cost, and schedule performance on mission-critical programmes.
⚡️ Assist Senior Project Manager to implement strategies aligned to programme execution plan
⚡️ Secure resources, maintain SQEP standards, and identify project personnel needs
⚡️ Drive delivery of contract/package activities to scope, budget, schedule and safety standards
⚡️ Track project progress, risks, milestones and provide regular stakeholder reporting
⚡️ Develop and maintain project schedules aligned with integrated programme planning
⚡️ Anticipate, manage and escalate risks, issues, and commercial challenges
⚡️ Capture lessons learnt and embed knowledge sharing as business-as-usual practice
⚡️ Interface across multiple programmes, adopting best practice and ensuring compliance
Qualifications
🛠 Essential Skills
🛠 Demonstrated knowledge of leadership in complex, highly regulated projects
🛠 Proficient numeracy, analytical and critical reasoning skills
🛠 Skilled in estimating, scheduling, programming, risk and Earned Value Management tools
🛠 Understanding of CDM Regulations and nuclear quality assurance requirements
🛠 Degree in engineering, construction or related field (desirable but not essential)
🛠 Professional qualification in project management (APM PPQ or equivalent desirable)
🛠 Demonstrated project management experience including:
- Engineering design, contract, and field execution strategies
- Multi-discipline EPCM projects
- Construction management activities
- Procurement and management of complex contracts
- Control of costs, risk, schedule, and change
- Management of commercial claims and negotiation experience
🛠 Strong stakeholder engagement, influencing and facilitation skills
✔️ Desired Skills
✔️ Working knowledge of CDM Regulations
✔️ Excellent presentation, influencing and facilitation skills
✔️ Understanding of nuclear quality requirements and assurance processes
✔️ Experience operating within NEC and FIDIC commercial arrangements
✔️ Direct experience in regulated energy or nuclear project environments
Additional Information
🌟 Why You Should Apply
Play a pivotal role in the UK’s nuclear energy future by supporting the successful operational start-up of Hinkley Point C. Join Assystem’s high-impact delivery team and shape the long-term readiness of one of Europe’s most significant energy projects.
Benefits include:
Hybrid Working Opportunity
Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
25 days’ paid annual leave + bank holidays + option to buy or sell days
Professional fees reimbursed
Flexible working hours
Employee referral scheme
This role will be based in Bridgwater
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