Head of Engineering

2 weeks ago

Glasgow Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom Assystem Full time

Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.

Every day, our 7,500 switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy.

We are a collective committed to the actors who are making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.

Drawing on more than 55 years' experience in highly regulated sectors subject to strict security and safety requirements, we provide our customers with engineering and project management services, as well as digital services and solutions to optimize the performance of complex infrastructure projects throughout their life cycle. The Group is currently ranked third in the world for nuclear engineering.

To ensure a viable, efficient, and reliable energy future for all.

Job Description

Your Mission as Chief Engineer:

Are you ready to take on a pivotal role in a major Defence infrastructure programme? We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Engineer to spearhead our engineering, safety case, and requirements teams. This is your chance to drive the engineering and safety case delivery, ensuring compliance with the Design Authority (DA) and regulatory standards.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Leadership: Provide strategic direction and inspire engineering, safety case, and requirements teams.
  • Quality Assurance: Ensure all deliverables meet DA and regulatory standards.
  • Integration: Oversee the delivery of system requirements, engineering, and safety case activities for floating dock and shoreside infrastructure.
  • Strategy Development: Create and secure endorsement for engineering and safety case strategies, processes, and tools.
  • Baseline Establishment: Collaborate with the DA to set the nuclear baseline (AC36) and ensure roles are SQEP.
  • Collaboration: Ensure robust representation in commercial delivery arrangements with Tranche and Commercial leads.
  • Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary interface with the DA, Site Operations, and Regulators.
  • Team Leadership: Foster a cohesive and integrated approach within multi-disciplined teams.
  • Compliance: Ensure adherence to the Programme Safety Engineering Management Plan (SEMP).

Qualifications

Profile:

Qualifications and Experience:

  • Regulatory Experience: Familiarity with dealing with regulators in high-consequence environments, ideally nuclear.
  • Proven Leadership: Successful recent experience leading multi-disciplined teams in producing engineering designs, justifications, and safety cases for major infrastructure or complex engineering programmes.
  • Diverse Experience: Extensive senior engineering leadership experience across multiple major infrastructure programmes or complex multi-disciplined engineering projects, preferably in regulated environments.
  • Professional Credentials: Chartered Engineer with full membership in a recognized engineering institution.
  • Line Management: Experience managing engineering staff at the chief engineer level.
  • Desirable Experience: Background in marine structures delivery or naval architecture is a plus.

Additional Information

  • Attractive benefits package.
  • Permanent Staff or Umbrella Contract position
  • Sole UK National, SC required to start
  • Hybrid role - Glasgow office with travel to Abbey Wood (Bristol)

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.

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