Project Manager

Assystem; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Assystem, a world-leading nuclear engineering group, seeks a Front-End Project Delivery professional in Glasgow. You will plan, coordinate, and drive front-end activities for complex infrastructure projects, ensuring early-stage development is structured and aligned with business goals.

Key tasks include shaping project scopes, coordinating inputs, maintaining plans and risk logs, and managing NEC4 contracts as the Project/Service Manager.

Qualifications

• SC Clearance or ability to obtain SC clearance
• Hands-on consultancy and/or construction background
• Experience in infrastructure or utilities would be ideal
• Strong commercial awareness & ability to challenge CE’s
• Hands‑on experience with NEC4 contracts & stakeholder management
• IT proficiency

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development of project scopes, option appraisals, studies, and business case evidence
• Coordinate technical, commercial, and stakeholder inputs to ensure a coherent and delivery-ready project definition
• Maintain project plans, progress reports, risk logs, and action trackers across the front-end lifecycle
• Support the organisation and facilitation of internal and external stakeholder meetings and workshops
• Document stakeholder requirements, decisions, and agreed actions, ensuring traceability and alignment
• Prepare input for governance boards, investment reviews, and steering groups
• Manage NEC4 contracts as the Project/Service Manager

Skills

NEC4 experience

Stakeholder management

Commercial awareness

IT proficiency

Consultancy background

Construction background

Glasgow 3 days/week

Tools

Primavera P6

CEMAR

Job 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

Your Missions

To support and manage the planning, coordination, and execution of front-end development activities for complex infrastructure projects. This role ensures that early-stage programme development is structured, evidence-based, and aligned with business objectives, enabling successful transition into design and delivery phases.

Key Tasks

Front-End Project Delivery

• Assist in the development of project scopes, option appraisals, studies, and business case evidence
• Coordinate technical, commercial, and stakeholder inputs to ensure a coherent and delivery-ready project definition.
• Maintain project plans, progress reports, risk logs, and action trackers across the front-end lifecycle.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Support the organisation and facilitation of internal and external stakeholder meetings and workshops.
• Document stakeholder requirements, decisions, and agreed actions, ensuring traceability and alignment.

Governance & Reporting

• Prepare input for governance boards, investment reviews, and steering groups.

Commercial

• Manage NEC4 contracts as the Project/Service Manager

Qualifications

What You Need

Essential

• SC Clearance & ability to work on in Glasgow 3 days/week
• Hands-on consultancy and/or construction background
• Experience in infrastructure or utilities would be ideal!
• Strong commercial awareness & ability to challenge CE’s
• Hands‑on experience with NEC4 contracts & stakeholder management
• IT proficiency

Desirable

• Primavera P6 & CEMAR knowledge

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• NEC4 experience

Desirable

• Membership of a relevant professional body
• Marine-specific background (not general civils)
• NEC PM accreditation or formal training

Additional Information

• 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
  • At Assystem, we celebrate diversity and creativity. We believe in harnessing unique perspectives to shape innovative solutions. Your skills and daring spirit are what truly matter. Join us and help shape the future!
• Sole UK national for security clearance.
• Active SC clearance or ability to obtain SC clearance.

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.

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