Senior Project Management Consultant

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.

This is an incredible time to be part of our fast-paced, dynamic environment which is both challenging and rewarding. As a Project Manager, you’ll be backed by a dedicated engineering and project controls team that shares your drive for success.

Our Project Managers work on projects or packages of work for key clients within the Assystem offices or support our clients directly through secondment opportunities to the client organisation. Working closely with programme leadership, project teams, and stakeholders, the role will focus on improving delivery performance, increasing productivity, and embedding best practice.

The role will require candidates to manage projects effectively, using the full project management skillset. The role requires strong skills in developing integrated and resourced project schedules, building teams and changing their working methods and habits, developing relationships and trust with client stakeholders, managing risk and dependencies between interfacing teams, developing tools or processes to increase efficiency in day-to-day tasks and reporting on progress to senior managers.

• Produce, in collaboration with the engineering team, detailed task-level project schedules (plans) for the delivery of scope to meet regulatory requirements and engineering decision gates. Plans should be integrated across the team and resourced to achieve the best utilisation of the engineer team.
• Develop tools or processes using a variety of software packages to increase the day-to-day efficiency of project management tasks, or to increase the productivity of the engineering teams.
• Manage engineering dependencies between different teams, capturing, tracking and maintaining those dependencies using traceable, clear methods.
• Support engineering change management processes and play a key role in adapting to project changes smoothly.
• Collaborate with project teams and stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve performance, productivity, and project outcomes.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder engagement activities, and cross-functional meetings to drive collaboration and alignment.
• Support the adoption of new tools, processes, governance arrangements, systems, and ways of working.
• Analyse programme performance data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities, providing clear recommendations.
• Produce presentations and communications to support programme delivery and decision-making, reporting the progress made against the plan to senior managers at regular intervals.
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships and leverage Assystem’s position with the client to develop areas for new business.

The role requires excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to facilitate workshops, engage diverse audiences, and influence decision-making at all levels of the organisation. The successful candidate will be comfortable working across multiple programmes and work streams within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

• Degree qualified or equivalent relevant experience.
• Engineering qualifications (e.g. degree) or experience of working or project managing in an engineering environment.

• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Project or Primavera…