Engineering Manager (Shiplift)

Job Description

Engineering Manager – Shiplift Safety

Join our Design Authority (DA) team as Engineering Manager overseeing the Shiplift Safety Justification Plan (SJP). You'll lead safety case production, manage engineering workstreams, and ensure safe delivery of Ship lift programmes through to end-of-life.

🔧 What You’ll Do:

• Lead the Shiplift Safety Justification Plan (SJP) 📘

• Manage engineering inputs across all Ship lift programmes ⚙️

• Guide Safety Case & Design Engineers 👷‍♀️👷‍♂️

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the project lifecycle 🤝

• Promote safety, compliance, and best practices

• Strong engineering leadership in safety-critical environments

• Experience in safety case management and stakeholder engagement

• Knowledge of Design Authority responsibilities & standards

Join us to help shape the safe future of Shiplift operations.

Qualifications

✅ Essential Skills & Experience

• 🎓 Degree in Engineering or a related field

• 🏅 Chartered Engineer (or working towards it with solid CPD)

• 📘 Strong knowledge of nuclear regulatory compliance

🌟 Desirable Experience

• 🛡️ In-depth knowledge of Design Authority (DA) roles & nuclear safety cases

• 📋 Project engineering & site integration

• 🔍 Technical assurance and compliance with industry legislation

• 🧾 Authoring technical reports, specs, and queries

• 🧠 Experience in regulated environments

• 🤝 Stakeholder engagement across disciplines

• 🦺 Basic H&S training for site work

• 🧑‍🏫 Mentoring and supervising engineers

• 🗂️ Organised, detail-oriented, with top-tier written & verbal communication

Additional Information

Additional Information

Due to the nature of this role the successful candidate will require Security clearance. To gain this they will be required to be a Sole UK national,  Hybrid working from home/Assystem Office

Benefits include:

• Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
• 25 days’ paid annual leave + bank holidays + option to buy or sell days
• Professional fees reimbursed
• Flexible working
• Employee referral scheme

Predominantly WFH.  Monthly travel to site for some key meetings e.t.c is required.

Sole UK National, SC clearance required to start

Umbrella contractor or staff

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.