Your future team:

The Design Manager will be joining a dynamic, forward-thinking engineering team that is driven by passion, innovation, and technical expertise. The team is composed of talented engineers with diverse skill sets, all working in harmony to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Your mission:

As Design Manager you will be developing, leading, managing, and coordinating the technical design packages – agreeing project related objectives, managing designer performance, and making appropriate technical management decisions to ensure that engineering work packages are delivered to the required scope, quality, schedule, and cost. The role will also involve:

🎯 Ensuring that the design documentation covers the scope of operations required by the Project Manager.

🎯 Planning and implementing a project design and safety approach which is compatible with Design and Safety Policy/Standards including BIM.

🎯 Authoring, developing, and maintaining the suite of Infrastructure Design Substantiation Documents.

🎯 Producing robust technical justification to allow for relevant civil/structural design modifications to be authorised within a high hazard industry.

🎯 Checking and reviewing calculations and technical documents written by other members of staff.

Why join the community of Switchers?

As one of the Top 3 Nuclear Engineering companies in the world, Assystem offer a competitive benefits package which includes:

💥25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
💥8% company pension contributions
💥Healthcare cash-plan to get money back on dental, medical, physical care
💥Employee assistance programme including 24/7 access to free mental health support, virtual gym classes and more
💥Get professional and industry membership fees paid for.

Qualifications/Skills to be successful:

🌟 Degree qualified in an appropriate engineering discipline

🌟 Chartered Engineer, registered with the Engineering Council

🌟 Strong understanding and experience of working in BIM environments

🌟 Sound project specification, planning, project management, and budgeting experience

🌟 Experience of working in the UK nuclear industry (energy or defence), particularly in the design and assessment of safety-related structures, systems, and components

🌟 Familiarity with safety case development techniques, e.g., HAZID/HAZOP studies

🌟 Experience of the design support to construction, operation, refit, and repair of conventional and nuclear submarines and/or facilities.

🔹 Limited travel to sites in Bristol and Helensburgh may be required, for example for facility walkdowns, however the role would typically be expected to be conducted in a hybrid arrangement from Glasgow City Centre.

🔹 Due to the nature of work to be undertaken applicants will be required to meet certain residency criteria in order to attain a minimum level of UK security clearance if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level. 

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.