Infrastructure Engineering Manager

Location: Derby, England, gb

Company Description

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 optimise 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:

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to support the Infrastructure Design Authority on a major, high-profile infrastructure programme. This is a key leadership role providing technical oversight, assurance, and integration across multiple engineering disciplines throughout the full project lifecycle.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

• 🏗️ Provide Engineering Management support within the Infrastructure Design Authority, integrating Civil & Structural, Fire, Electrical, and Mechanical disciplines.

• 📐 Manage all engineering activity and deliver technical oversight across the full lifecycle, from concept and design through construction and handover.

• 🧠 Act as the single point of contact for the Governance & Assurance Intelligent Customer capability, representing the client’s technical interests.

• 📋 Lead technical requirements management and systems integration for an infrastructure project, ensuring end-to-end traceability.

• ✔️ Oversee the technical assurance process, working with SMEs to ensure designs and construction meet regulatory, operational, safety, and business requirements.

• 🤝 Collaborate closely with Design Authority, Digital, B&I, Quality, Construction, HSE, and Project Management teams to enable seamless delivery.

• 📑 Develop and maintain project-specific technical governance and assurance artefacts, working with partners and suppliers to ensure alignment and compliance.

Qualifications

We will be looking for:

• 🛠️ Strong engineering background, with the ability to apply technical expertise within a complex infrastructure and construction environment.

• 📐 Proven experience in requirements management, with a solid understanding of systems engineering principles, including the V-Model or equivalent lifecycle methodologies.

• 🤝 Confidence in coordinating and influencing multiple stakeholders, ensuring alignment across diverse technical and functional disciplines.

• 🏗️ Demonstrated understanding of how large, complex infrastructure projects are delivered, with the ability to maintain technical oversight across the full project lifecycle.

Additional Information

🌟 Why Join Us?

✨ Be part of dynamic construction and engineering projects
✨ Work in a collaborative and professional environment
✨ Develop your skills within a structured and well-supported team

 Please be aware that many roles at Assystem are subject to both security and export control restrictions.

• These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation.
• All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

We will consider Inside IR35 Contractors or permanent 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.