Business Support Manager

Job Description Overview

Are you someone who thrives on enabling others to succeed and enjoys bringing clarity, connection, and momentum to a busy operational environment? Joining our Business Support Team, you’ll play a key role in supporting the Nuclear division. Reporting to the Head of Business Support, you’ll use your big picture thinking, curiosity and relationship building to create a smooth, supportive, and forward‑thinking service.

• Collaborative Service Delivery:
  Bring your natural talent for organisation and teamwork to deliver high‑quality Business Administration services alongside fellow BSMs.
• Stewardship & Responsibility:
  Use your sense of responsibility and integrity to support QSSE and security activities, helping create a safe and trusted environment.
• Fairness & Talent Development:
  Apply your strengths in fairness and empathy to balance workloads and create opportunities for others to grow and stretch their skills.
• Quality & Follow:
  Through Draw on your strength in conscientiousness to monitor deliverables, ensuring work is completed to a high standard.
• Creativity & Continuous Improvement:
  Use your curiosity and solution‑focused mindset to develop innovative, collaborative ways of working that add value and improve efficiency.
• Positive Change Leadership:
  Bring your enthusiasm for learning and adaptability to champion new technologies and evolving ways of working.
• Supportive Coordination:
  Use your natural organisational strengths to manage shared mailboxes and provide seamless cover for PAs when needed.

• Strengths‑Oriented Team Development:
  Create an environment where people feel valued, supported, and motivated to perform at their best, aligned with Atkins
  
  Réalis values.
• Clarity &
  
  Coaching:
  
  Use your communication strengths to ensure your team understands their goals, and your coaching strengths to help them grow through meaningful feedback.
• Supportive Performance Leadership:
  Guide your team’s development with fairness and encouragement, holding constructive career conversations and nurturing long‑term growth.
• Community & Connection:
  Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing, helping people feel part of a supportive and connected function.

• Purpose‑Driven Alignment: A natural motivation to contribute to organisational goals and help others succeed.
• Big‑Picture Thinking:
  The ability to step back, see patterns, and understand how everything connects.
• Digital Confidence & Adaptability: A positive attitude toward technology and a resilient, future‑focused mindset.
• Analytical Curiosity: A love of exploring problems, asking thoughtful questions, and finding smart solutions.
• Inspiring Leadership: A talent for uplifting others, offering guidance, and creating a supportive environment.
• Self‑Motivation:
  Comfort working independently, using initiative, and taking ownership.
• Organisational Strength: A natural ability to bring structure, prioritise effectively, and stay calm under pressure.
• Discretion & Trustworthiness: A strong sense of integrity and respect for confidentiality.
• Relationship Building:
  Warm, clear communication that helps build trust and positive working relationships.
• Precision & Care: A keen eye for detail and pride in producing accurate, high‑quality work.

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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We’re Atkins

Réalis, 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…