Assystem
Area Engineering Manager
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About Assystem
Today, Assystem is among the top three independent nuclear engineering firms worldwide. With over 60 years of experience in highly regulated sectors, the group supports public and industrial stakeholders in the execution of complex and strategic infrastructure projects, subject to high safety and security requirements.
Assystem mobilizes 8,000 experts in 13 countries and intervenes across the entire project lifecycle, in engineering, project management, and digital solutions.
Job Description
Area Engineering Manager
Location: Warrington
Contract Type: Contract (Inside IR35) or Permanent
Responsibilities:
- Lead and Direct: To lead and direct a multi-disciplinary engineering team to:
- Deliver: Deliver the Stage 3 Define phase onwards in line with agreed project schedule and cost.
- Drive: Drive engineering teams to optimise the Stage 2 Appraise and select a single preferred solution, and produce a Stage 3 Preliminary Design.
- Assure: Complete preliminary design assurance activities in line with the agreed Risk-Based Assurance Strategy.
- Produce: Act as AEM, leading multi-discipline teams responsible for estimating, scheduling, forecasting, and producing agreed design deliverables.
- Manage: Manage the DSA teams in the production of deliverables.
- Resource: Identify and allocate additional resource demand where required to ensure all deliverables can be originated and checked in accordance with project schedule dates.
- Interface: Interface with other Project Discipline Leads within the project(s).
- Engage: Engage and interface with site clients and stakeholders.
- Support: Support the production of Stage 4 delivery estimates and schedule, with input into the commercial engagement of suppliers in the Define phase.
- Collaborate: Work collaboratively with the fully integrated project team—including construction, commissioning, pre-ops, human factors, and client stakeholders—to ensure functional requirements are met (Constructability, Commissionability, HAZCON, conventional safety, environmental).
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Qualifications
- Engineering Background: Engineering background with a proven record of successful delivery, including recent roles influencing professional engineers and guiding technical personnel.
- Experience: Significant experience in an engineering design environment, with engineering knowledge as a key attribute and proven project delivery across the full project lifecycle.
- Regulated Environment: Recent experience within a regulated and quality-assured system (preferably nuclear), where professional engineering judgement was key.
- Knowledge: Knowledge and understanding of governing laws, regulations, and standards for the nuclear industry (equivalent experience from other industries will be considered).
- System Engineering: Experience with Project System Engineering and the system engineering approach to design.
- Contracts: Familiarity with NEC3 contract terms and conditions.
- Project Experience: Experience in the delivery of projects related to cooling systems and CE&I power distribution.
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Additional Information
- Security Clearance: Ability to obtain SC Clearance or above. Ability to obtain P1 Pass Minimum Monitored Worker.
- Residency Criteria: 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.
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Equal Treatment and Diversity:
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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