About the Role
Sizewell C is seeking Assistant Project Managers to support the Nuclear Island Programme, contributing to engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and construction activities. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop a project management career in a regulated environment while contributing to a significant clean energy project.
Responsibilities
- Support the delivery of engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and construction activities across the Nuclear Island Programme.
- Coordinate project activities and engineering studies to ensure successful delivery against key milestones and programme objectives.
- Support the development and implementation of delivery strategies across key Nuclear Island workstreams.
- Manage interfaces between engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities to support integrated project delivery.
- Assist with project controls activities, including reporting, data management, KPI tracking, and progress monitoring.
- Support contract administration activities, including governance, correspondence, change management, and document control processes.
- Contribute to cost management, forecasting, cashflow monitoring, and commercial performance across assigned work packages.
- Engage with suppliers, contractors, and internal stakeholders to identify, manage, and mitigate project risks and opportunities.
- Support construction readiness activities, delivery sequencing, logistics planning, and programme integration.
- Assist with milestone planning, interface coordination, and the management of programme dependencies across multiple delivery teams.
- Support the delivery of contract packages to agreed safety, quality, cost, and schedule requirements.
- Promote collaboration across multidisciplinary teams, driving continuous improvement and the sharing of lessons learned.
Requirements
- Experience in a Project Management, Assistant Project Management, Project Engineering, or Project Controls role within a complex engineering, infrastructure, construction, or regulated environment.
- Good analytical capability, proficiency using Microsoft Excel and project reporting tools.
- Background in Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Process, Systems Engineering, or a related project delivery discipline.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing competing priorities.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships across diverse teams.
- Experience supporting project delivery against cost, schedule, and quality objectives.
- Understanding of project controls, project governance, contract administration, or commercial processes.
- Experience managing interfaces, risks, and dependencies within complex projects.
- Proactive, organised, and solutions-focused approach.
- Experience within the nuclear sector or another highly regulated industry such as defence, energy, rail, aerospace, or major infrastructure (desirable).
- Chartered Engineer status or working towards professional registration (desirable).
- Formal Project Management qualification (APM, PRINCE2 or equivalent) (desirable).
- Experience supporting EPC, EPCM, or major capital projects (desirable).
- Knowledge of construction delivery, programme integration, and complex supply chains (desirable).
Skills
- Microsoft Excel
- Project reporting tools
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Project controls
- Project governance
- Contract administration
- Commercial processes
- Interface management
- Risk management
- Dependency management
- Collaboration
- Continuous improvement
- Lessons learned sharing
Location
- London
- Bristol
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
Experience Level
- Assistant Project Manager
Education Level
- Chartered Engineer status or working towards professional registration (desirable)
- Formal Project Management qualification (APM, PRINCE2 or equivalent) (desirable)
Salary/Compensations
- £56,506
Benefits
- Annual Leave: 28 days per annum, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service, plus bank holidays.
- Pension Contributions: Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with up to 7.5% employee contribution 15% employer contribution.
- Life Assurance: Up to 8 times annual salary (subject to Defined Contribution pension scheme membership*).
About the Company
- Sizewell C is one of the UK's largest and most ambitious infrastructure projects and is entering an exciting phase of growth as we continue progressing towards delivery of a new generation of low-carbon power.
- Sizewell C is one of the UK's most significant clean energy projects, helping to deliver secure, low-carbon electricity for generations to come.
