Senior Project Manager

Company Description

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

🚢 Joint Project Manager – Ship lift Programme

This programme will lead the delivery of critical upgrade and maintenance works for the client’s ship lift, a key facility supporting the UK’s submarine fleet. ⚓

🔹 What You’ll Do

• 📅 Lead the planning, delivery, and completion of a complex engineering upgrade and maintenance programme.
• 💷 Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
• 📊 Develop and maintain integrated project schedules and performance reporting.
• 🤝 Coordinate activities across multiple stakeholders, including MoD, Babcock Marine, specialist contractors, and site management teams.
• 📈 Provide project governance, progress updates, financial reporting, and risk management.
• ⚠️ Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues.
• 🛡️ Ensure compliance with defence, health & safety, environmental, and security requirements.
• ✅ Support audits, assurance activities, and quality control processes.

Qualifications

Experience

🔹 What we’re Looking For

• Proven experience delivering complex engineering, infrastructure, or maintenance projects.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience managing schedules, budgets, risks, and project governance, change control.
• Ability to operate effectively within a multi-agency and highly regulated environment.
• Knowledge of defence, nuclear, infrastructure, or heavy engineering projects is highly desirable.

Training & Qualifications

Formal project management qualifications (e.g., PRINCE2, APM PMQ, MSP, or equivalent).

Additional Information

1. Why join the community of Switchers?:

🔹 The Group is currently ranked Third in the world for nuclear engineering.

🔹A dynamic career management policy to enable our employees to progress through our five business lines: operations, project, technical, sales and support functions

🔹Provide opportunities to work on exciting, global projects

🔹Access to an employee assistance programme with free mindfulness, health, wellbeing resources and a confidential support line available ²⁴⁄₇ via phone or text

🔹Discount vouchers for days out and restaurants, eye test and glasses vouchers, cycle to work scheme, free flu jabs

1. Security - The incumbent of this role must be a minimum of SC cleared and be a sole UK national.

2. Working arrangements – The incumbent of this role must be able to do hybrid working with the ability to attend the site 2-3 days per week and / or to meet business needs, as requested.

NOTICE TO CANDIDATES ON RECRUITMENT FRAUD - We are committed to safeguarding candidates from fraudulent activity associated with our recruitment process. Please note that we will never offer specialist CV writing services, request payment or ask for sensitive personal information during the recruitment process.

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.