Technical Compliance Manager

AtkinsRéalis; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible holiday allowances

Employee rewards

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is recruiting a Technical Compliance Manager to drive operational assurance within the CP division in the UK. You will lead the assurance framework, manage risk, and shape governance across sectors while working with operations and technical leaders to deliver engineering excellence.

The role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, a growth mindset, and a collaborative culture with a strong focus on continuous improvement and staff development.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering or a related STEM field.
• Extensive experience of assured infrastructure delivery in a safety critical environment.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and emotional intelligence to align diverse viewpoints.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously improve the Technical Assurance Framework across supported markets.
• Accountable as the senior authority for technical assurance processes in the CP business, ensuring they are proportionate, risk-based, and compliant.
• Support the Technical Assurance Director in overseeing technical compliance across all sectors within the CP business, ensuring the assurance framework is implemented, processes are robust and audited and a continuous improvement 'lessons learnt' culture is in place.
• Ensure the consistent implementation of technical assurance reviews across all sectors within the CP business.
• Own the Technical Audit programme for CP activities.
• Promote evidence-based decision making, proactive risk management and accountable governance.
• Work closely with the Technical Expert leadership to ensure alignment of assurance process, skills and competences.
• Support bids, design reviews, major technical challenges, and critical risks management activities.
• Align the compliance and assurance team with business strategy and emerging technologies.
• Act as senior point of contact for escalation of engineering and assurance challenges.
• Foster a high-performance culture through motivation, collaboration, and clear communication.
• Support initiatives that improve representation, equity, and belonging across the organisation.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Emotional intelligence

Analytical skills

Delivery skills

Resilience

Prioritisation

Business acumen

Growth mindset

Written and verbal communication

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Overview

Shaping a smarter, more agile world.

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 is 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.

Our Complex Projects (CP) business unit serves as a centre of excellence for project delivery and technical innovation across the UK and Ireland, uniting exceptional client-side project management expertise with world-class execution and management contracting capabilities, enabling us to deliver outstanding solutions for our clients. Our Technical Assurance team is the home of grip, control, and accountability. To drive forward our Assurance function we have identified the need for a Technical Compliance Manager. This role will form part of the CP Technical Directorate function, reporting to the Business Unit (BU) Technical Assurance Director.

The primary focus of this role will be to support the Technical Assurance Director in driving forward operational assurance and compliance initiatives, developing business process improvements and monitoring delivery risk and compliance. The candidate will work closely with the Operations team and leaders from across our delivery sectors to drive engineering excellence, technical compliance, and evolve how we work. This will involve taking a hands‑on role in organising, preparing for, shaping and driving the day‑to‑day technical review forums, communities, and improvement workstreams. The role is expected to be wide ranging, touching all aspects of our business from technical audits, delivery readiness and supply chain engagement to strategic goal setting and staff engagement. This role represents an opportunity for significant exposure to the inner workings of our business, with the opportunity to make a lasting impact by shaping the CP growth story.

Your role

We are seeking an energetic, and persuasive professional, capable of taking ownership of multiple competing priorities and creating a coherent forward focused view. This is more than an administrative or technical management role, it will require someone with a desire to find commonality across sectors and drive technical compliance and assurance in a changing environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and continuously improve the Technical Assurance Framework across supported markets.
• Accountable as the senior authority for technical assurance processes in the CP business, ensuring they are proportionate, risk‑based, and compliant.
• Support the Technical Assurance Director in overseeing technical compliance across all sectors within the CP business, ensuring the assurance framework is implemented, processes are robust and audited and a continuous improvement "lessons learnt" culture is in place.
• Ensure the consistent implementation of technical assurance reviews across all sectors within the CP business.
• Own the Technical Audit programme for CP activities.
• Promote evidence‑based decision making, proactive risk management and accountable governance.
• Work closely with the Technical Expert leadership to ensure alignment of assurance process, skills and competences.
• Support bids, design reviews, major technical challenges, and critical risks management activities.
• Align the compliance and assurance team with business strategy and emerging technologies.
• Act as senior point of contact for escalation of engineering and assurance challenges.
• Foster a high-performance culture through motivation, collaboration, and clear communication.
• Support initiatives that improve representation, equity, and belonging across the organisation.

About you

• Degree in, Engineering, or a related STEM field.
• Extensive experience of assured infrastructure delivery in a safety critical environment
• Stakeholder Engagement and Emotional Intelligence: the ability to establish strong and productive working relationships, reconcile differing viewpoints and find commonality.
• Analytical Skills: the ability to evaluate data and create insights that drive outcomes and actions across a range of topics and subject matters.
• Delivery Skills: a track record of delivering impactful outcomes.
• Resilience: skills in problem solving, decision making, and striving to find answers and overcome challenges in unclear and investigating circumstances.
• Prioritisation: ability to think practically, balancing changing priorities and deadlines.
• Business acumen: understanding of how professional services and management contracting companies generate revenue and profit, enabled by efficient operations and management.
• A growth and innovation mindset: not constrained by the past and able to approach challenges as opportunities.
• Written and Verbal Communication: influential and effective communication, with the ability to communicate complex topics in a simple, persuasive way across a variety of audiences.

Rewards & 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. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

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