Company Description
Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.
Every day, our 6,500 switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy.
We are a collective committed to the actors who are making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.
Drawing on more than 55 years' experience in highly regulated sectors subject to strict security and safety requirements, we provide our customers with engineering and project management services, as well as digital services and solutions to optimize the performance of complex infrastructure projects throughout their life cycle. The Group is currently ranked second in the world for nuclear engineering.
To ensure a viable, efficient, and reliable energy future for all.
Job Description
Your Mission as a Project Lead Engineer 🚀
Are you ready to take on a challenging role in the Client Engineering team, supporting key technical assurance activities? We are looking for a Project Lead Engineer to oversee the design and implementation of Onshore, Marine, or Crane systems for a critical Client work packages. Your work will involve the replacement and refurbishment of plant and equipment to meet modern standards.
What You’ll Do:
- 🔧 Lead a multi-discipline engineering team: Drive collaborative efforts to deliver top-notch solutions.
- 📊 Support Client Project Manager: Oversee consultants and contractors to ensure project success.
- 🛠️ Develop and manage work scopes: Shape project requirements and perform assurance activities.
- 📐 Collaborate with BIM/CAD teams: Ensure designs meet project and stakeholder needs.
- 📝 Review and accept project documentation: Maintain high standards in project drawings and documentation.
- ⚙️ Supervise construction activities: Ensure compliance with design intent during project execution.
- 💼 Chair meetings and design reviews: Lead discussions to drive project milestones.
- 🔍 Provide technical supervision: Oversee commissioning and decommissioning, ensuring all safety and quality standards are met.
- 📢 Deliver engineering presentations: Communicate effectively to stakeholders and team members.
- 🛡️ Ensure safety and compliance: Uphold Environment, Health, Safety, Security, and Quality standards throughout the project.
This role offers the opportunity to be at the forefront of major engineering projects, ensuring they meet the highest standards of safety and quality. If you're passionate about leading engineering teams and driving successful project delivery, we want to hear from you!
Qualifications
Key Attributes:
Qualification, Special Skills or Experience:
- Qualification to degree level in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline.
- Chartered Engineer status or able to attain chartered status (demonstration of continued professional development).
- Mechanical, Civil and Structural Engineer background preferred
Experience in the following:
- Project engineering of work packages, including site implementation/ integration, within a highly regulated environment.
- Working fully autonomously and as part of a team
- Compliance with legislation and standards in a highly regulated industry.
- Producing technical documentation e.g. technical reports, specifications, technical queries etc.
- Liaison with range of stakeholders.
- Basic health and safety training for site visits.
- Nuclear safety case (desirable).
Additional Information
Why join the Switchers community?
💥 Assystem has over 55 years of experience in nuclear engineering. We are among the top 3 largest nuclear engineering companies.
💥 Attractive social benefits: an engaging and dynamic Employee Committee (CE), holiday bonuses...
💥 Ongoing training throughout your career. Numerous career opportunities: 70% of our managers come from internal promotions!
💥 1 to 2 days of remote work per week.
SC Clearance required
Sole UK National
Hybrid working - Glasgow office 2-3 days a fortnight.
Ideally Staff but Umbrella Contractor considered
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.
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.
