Company Description
Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.
Every day, our 7,500 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 future team:
The Senior Structural Engineer will be working with multi-discipline infrastructure system designs to provide an overall sustainment capability for our client's Major Infrastructure Projects directorate.
Your missions:
Using your experience in facility upgrade or construction projects you will manage and review the design packages by subconsultants and work with users and other stakeholders to ensure that the integrated facility provides the sustainment capability. You will use your Structural Engineering expertise to ensure the product meets the technical and operational requirements of the facility. This will include:
🛠️ Ensuring systems are designed against a clear statement of compliance with defined requirements, including demonstration that the design meets relevant HSE requirements.
🛠️ Supporting the management of the structural engineering elements of the new buildings, ensuring designer technical performance, and making appropriate technical responses.
🛠️ Ensuring that the design documentation covers the scope of operations required by the Project Manager and is produced to agreed standards, schedule, and budget.
🛠️ Planning for effective project implementation, identifying key factors and effectively contributing to the project’s technical planning process.
🛠️ Ensuring that the processes and activities being managed are appropriately documented, records maintained, and configuration and quality controls applied.
🛠️ Providing technical design guidance and review integration of structural designs with other design packages.
Why join the community of Switchers?
Assystem is one of the top 3 largest Nuclear Engineering companies. This is an exciting opportunity to progress your career and assist in the delivery of Defence design and safety engineering projects, with opportunities for further development and progression within the company. We also offer competitive benefits, including:
💥 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
💥 8% company pension contributions
💥 Healthcare cash-plan to get money back on dental, medical, physical care
💥 Employee assistance programme including 24/7 access to free mental health support, virtual gym classes and more
💥 Get professional and industry membership fees paid for.
Qualifications
Qualifications/Skills to be successful:
🌟 A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Structural/Civil Engineering.
🌟 Chartered Engineer status and membership of a relevant institution or demonstrable engineering experience and capability of registering with the Engineering Council at CEng level.
🌟 Knowledge of architectural design of industrial buildings.
🌟 Knowledge of building services design and installation.
🌟 Experience of relevant seismic codes for satisfying Nuclear Safety Functions.
🌟 Knowledge of construction techniques employed for Nuclear Safety related structures and buildings.
🌟 Experience managing sub-contractors and consultants.
🌟 An awareness of Company and departmental procedures relating to Design, Health & Safety and Quality requirements.
Additional Information
SC Clearance - or ability to gain it. Potentially able to start with BPSS.
Sole UK National
Hybrid - Occasional visits to Client site near Plymouth. Home Office, ideally Sunderland or Glasgow but any location commutable to an Assystem office in UK considered
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.
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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.
