Assistant Project Manager – Nuclear New Build

SNC-Lavalin; Bristol; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering services company in Bristol is seeking an enthusiastic Assistant Project Manager to support projects in the nuclear sector. In this role, you will manage work packages, ensuring quality and schedule adherence while benefiting from ongoing training and a dynamic team environment. Ideal candidates will possess strong communication skills and project management experience. Flexible working arrangements are offered, alongside competitive salaries and tailored benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and motivated by dynamic project delivery environments.
• Willing to learn and support others within diverse teams.
• Experience in Project Management to achieve time, cost, and quality objectives.

Responsibilities

• Manage work packages under guidance of Senior PM or Programme Manager.
• Deliver on defined margin, schedule, and quality requirements.
• Adhere to internal and external procedures and standards.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project Management tools (MS Project)

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Tools

MS Project

JDE

Online Stage Gates

Job description

Job Description Overview

Do you thrive off building strong relationships? Are you seeking an opportunity to have an impact in the nuclear industry? Join us as an Assistant Project Manager and you'll enjoy working on a huge variety of high-profile builds, with plenty of opportunities to build your career as a well-rounded professional. Let's get your unique skills, work style and background into the mix, and start shaping the future of nuclear construction.

Your role

• As part of our Nuclear New Build business, our Project Delivery Capability team specialises in taking on complex engineering projects and opportunities that exist across the board, from technical leadership to project management. With existing relationships with the major stakeholders in the nuclear sector, we offer a hugely stimulating variety of work, within a team which is rapidly developing to support the delivery of New Nuclear Build. Our projects are on a global scale with opportunities across the UK, Europe, and Middle East, across a range of projects in both the Large Civil Nuclear market and the emerging New Nuclear Technologies market.
• Working as an Assistant Project Manager, you will be working across our Nuclear New Build business, either leading the delivery of AtkinsRéalis engineering projects or embedded into our clients’ programmes. We will continuously provide you on the job training and support to navigate your career down the right path. We are recruiting predominately in the Bristol and Epsom locations where you will join a team with a diverse mix of people from all around the world. Our Bristol office predominately focuses on supporting the Hinkley Point C project, the Small Modular Reactor programme, and the UK EPR design centre, while our Epsom office will focus on supporting the Sizewell C project and our UKAEA client. As we support our clients you will be expected to travel and work from client sites across the UK as the role, project or secondment requires.
• There has never been a more exciting time to join the industry as we engineer a cleaner, zero-carbon future for our planet.

About you

The opportunities we have are varied in size and nature and suit a range of project management styles and backgrounds; but as a consultancy, we are looking for enthusiastic, self-starting individuals who will thrive on being able to adapt and use a combination of best practice project management and exceptional people management skills, to support the delivery of any challenge that is faced.

Typically, the role and responsibilities of an AtkinsRéalis Assistant Project Manager will include:

• Managing work packages under the guidance of a Senior PM, or Programme manager.
• Building on an ongoing track record of delivery against defined margin, schedule and quality requirements.
• Reviewing, measuring, and adhering to procedures and standards set externally/internally.

Ideally you are:

• Excellent with communicative skills and motivated by working within a dynamic and diverse project delivery environment.
• Adamant on new challenges and will be keen to learn, whilst also wanting to support others within our multi-disciplinary teams.
• Motivated to build on your experience of Project Management in a Project environment, to deliver outputs/outcomes to agreed time, cost and quality requirements.
• Familiar with stakeholder management.
• Familiar with a range of PM tools such as MS Project, Online Stage Gates, Enterprise Advantage, iGate, JDE.

Reward & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

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At AtkinsRéalis , we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.