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.
Job Description
The successful Sub-Project Manager will be working towards the system upgrades and replacements working as part of the Categorised Projects team. The team delivery has been established in Site Management Project Office to standardise delivery and solutions, and to translate these inefficiencies into opportunities by:
- Using a Categorised Project project management team dedicated to the delivery of control system related tasks and projects using a standard delivery model;
- Utilising a standardised approach to project initiation to ensure scope is defined and underpinned consistently and robustly;
- Removing non value adding activities such as multiple cycling through the sanctioning committees; and
- Retaining LFE within the project delivery team by feeding it back into the standard delivery model.
The existing Supply of Control System Contract has reached its limit against the committed scope and the Categorised Project team are working with the Commercial team to develop its replacement. It is anticipated that the new Supply of Control Systems Contract will be in place FY25/26 and will differ from the existing framework with the inclusion of installation scope.
The Project Manager sets the project execution strategies and uses a cross-functional project team to deliver the project safely in line with company policy achieving established goals and objectives within the agreed baseline.
Responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):
- Delivering the project in a safe manner to the specified functional criteria, goals and objectives, compliant with appropriate legislation, Project Execution Procedures and within the approved project baseline, scope, cost, schedule and quality requirements.
- Applying an appropriate level of priority for safety and quality to ensure that Nuclear Safety is not compromised by delivery.
- Implementing and maintaining a competent, effective and efficient Integrated Project Team.
- Minimising the project risks (threats) and maximising opportunities.
- Maximising the project efficiency and effectiveness.
- Early identification of issues, concerns that either have the potential or will impact the project baseline and sanction.
- Proposing, agreeing, implementing and reporting corrective actions to secure the project baseline.
- To the Head of Projects with support from Project Management Function as required, to ensure that the Project Delivery Fundamentals are embedded and complied with in their projects.
Qualifications
Experience required/desired:
- Experience of working on projects in the nuclear industy;
- Experience in project management, managing delivery to cost and schedule;
- Ideally, experience in control system delivery but other engineering disciplines acceptable
- Knowledge of the Sellafield project lifecycle
- Knowledge of NEC3 contracts
Qualifications:
- IPMA Level D (APM) professional qualification or equivalent
- Graduate degree in relevant field
Additional Information
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.
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.
