Engineering Director (Defence/Nuclear)

-; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in Glasgow is seeking an Engineering Director to lead major infrastructure projects in the nuclear and defence sectors. This role involves strategic project delivery, stakeholder engagement, and managing teams in a collaborative environment. Ideal candidates will be Chartered Engineers with significant experience in project management and client relations. The position offers flexibility and requires a commitment to delivering quality outcomes through innovation and teamwork.

Benefits

Flexible working policies

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Support for career development

Qualifications

• Experience managing the design and/or construction stages of large infrastructure projects.
• Holds expertise in the nuclear/defence sector.
• Ability to establish project strategies to meet time, cost, and quality objectives.
• Excellent client relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong leadership qualities and emotional intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Deliver projects to agreed targets, managing quality and contractual risks.
• Lead the project team, ensuring effective communication and coordination.
• Agree on commercial trading arrangements and protect the commercial interests.
• Manage successful delivery from concept through construction.

Skills

Chartered Engineer experience

Client relationship management

Commercial awareness

Project management

Team leadership

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

NEC3/4 contract management

Job description

Job Description

Take our vision into the future.

You might know us for the great work we do across our wide variety of projects. We're proud to say it's thanks to our people's diversity of thought, expertise and knowledge. And when you join us, you'll be a part of this genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone's voice is valued and treated equally.

We're passionate about what we do, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. Simply put, this a great place to be. So, when it comes to your life outside of work, ask us about our flexible and remote working policies designed to help you get the most out of life.

The AtkinsRéalis Infrastructure Project Delivery Practice (PDP) is the centre of excellence for the delivery of infrastructure projects and combines the best in project management and design management to provide a full suite of services to clients in the public and private sectors. The team is responsible for delivery of design services across our markets of Water Infrastructure, Defence Infrastructure, Nuclear, Aviation, Energy, Rail (stations), and Urban Developments. We have an exciting new opportunity in Infrastructure PDP for an Engineering Director to join our North, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (NS&NI) practice, based in the Glasgow office, working on nuclear/defence programmes.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for a talented individual looking to develop and deploy their career experience in in a strategic delivery environment, implementing a blend of leadership, commercial aptitude with strong technical understanding towards influencing the success of major projects/programmes through decisive action and accountability. This role combines agile working from our NS&NI offices with time at client offices and sites. Our need to recruit comes from the success of our division and our pipeline and desired growth within the North of England and Scotland across a variety of sectors, predominantly in our defence and nuclear markets.

A role within the Infrastructure PDP offers the opportunity to work on the full suite of projects that AtkinsRéalis delivers which will enable you to demonstrate your knowledge and skills as an Engineering Director developed through past experiences.

As an Engineering Director you are expected to have considerable multi-disciplinary project and programme delivery experience, ideally within a consultancy environment, and would be accountable for the management and the successful delivery of major multi-disciplinary projects and programmes from concept through construction. You will be adept at engaging with stakeholders, delighting clients, and spearheading a team to deliver successful outcomes.

Your purpose:

• The successful delivery of the project or programme to agreed targets, e.g. quality.
• Identifying and agreeing project objectives and developing a strategy for achieving these.
• Identifying and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk to AtkinsRéalis, as well as identification of opportunities.
• Leading the project team - building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding, and developing the team.
• Facilitating communication, co-ordination, and information flow with the Client and within the project team, including any subcontractors and partners (internal and external).
• With input from the technical practices and Discipline Leads, agreeing commercial trading arrangements and communication plan for working with other teams across the business including our Global Technology Centres (GTC) in Bangalore and New Delhi.
• Owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans.
• Protecting the commercial interest of AtkinsRéalis.

What you can bring:

• Chartered Engineer with demonstrable experience managing the design and/or construction stages of projects, with experience on large infrastructure projects. Significant multi-discipline experience with understanding of the role of the Safety Case in design.
• Holds nuclear/defence sector expertise and can use this towards development of value propositions.
• Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, in particular NEC3 or 4 and/or bespoke forms of contract.
• Experience of managing design projects to time, cost, and quality objectives. Capable of establishing a project strategy to deploy extensive project resources.
• Customer focused with excellent client relationship management skills. Proactively manages client relationships at a high level and engages with multiple stakeholders. Ability to understand client requirements and bring together different AtkinsRéalis capabilities to develop a solution.
• Expertly builds trust and confidence with client and stakeholders and able to adapt to different cultures and working environments. Commercially and contractually astute, exhibiting strong technical insight into project quality. Proactively acts to minimises the chance of disputes and resolves any disputes which do arise.
• Strong understanding of principles of assurance and compliance as defined and applied within the relevant industry environment. Identifies new opportunities and growth propositions and brings value into the business by seeing these through to new work for themselves and others. Competent and confident influencing others and finding resolutions in a strategic working environment.
• A hard working and flexible individual, who is a team player, possesses great attention to detail, is reliable, proactive and shows initiative whilst able to keep cool under pressure and when working to often demanding deadlines.
• Able to delegate without ambiguity and leads multiple teams by providing vision and direction. Ability to manage, motivate and mentor a team and demonstrate good leadership qualities and strong emotional intelligence. Collaborative approach to delivery of projects and stakeholder management.
• Be available to travel across the UK and work away from home on client sites if required.

Why work for AtkinsRéalis?

We're ranked as one of LinkedIn's Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once, they join. We've also made the Times Top 50 employers for women.

Our Infrastructure team uses innovation, new approaches and the power of data to help our clients deliver end-to-end projects and programmes for essential future infrastructure. And as the work becomes ever more complex, our employees continue to challenge the status quo.

We're committed to engineering better for people and our planet, from our global Engineering Net-Zero programme to creating social value through EDAROTH community housing. We're proud of our active employee networks creating awareness and allyship for our under-represented groups. Not to mention programmes supporting communities outside AtkinsRéalis, including schools, charities, ex-forces and professionals returning after career breaks.

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 promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

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.