Assistant Project Manager

Assistant Project Manager

Job Description

About us Fusion, the process that powers the sun and stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs. UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industry and research organisations to achieve ground-breaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid by developing the power stations of tomorrow and the skilled workforce to deliver them.

About the job

Join the Tritium Fuel Cycle division and help deliver projects that support the development of sustainable fusion energy. In this role, you will contribute to the successful delivery of research, development and facility projects by coordinating activities, monitoring progress and supporting effective project governance. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your project management career while working on innovative programmes with real scientific and technological impact.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead smaller projects or support the delivery of larger projects to achieve agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality targets.
• Coordinate project activities, resources and schedules to maintain delivery against key milestones.
• Establish and maintain project controls, tracking performance and reporting progress against plans.
• Develop project plans and apply appropriate project delivery methodologies throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate the development of business cases and support the delivery of planned project benefits.
• Identify, monitor and manage project risks, issues and mitigation actions, escalating where required.
• Build effective relationships with key stakeholders to support project delivery and decision-making.
• Produce project reports and governance information to enable informed oversight and management.
• Support project assurance activities and ensure compliance with agreed processes and standards.
• Manage project changes through established change control processes and maintain accurate project documentation.

What You’ll Bring

• Degree qualification, or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience, in an engineering, science, construction/property, business change or related discipline.
• Programme or Project Management qualification.
• Experience supporting the delivery of programmes or projects, with practical application of project management principles.
• Experience of project planning, governance, risk management, change control and project reporting.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience managing or monitoring project budgets, including financial tracking and reporting.

UKAEA is an onsite organisation, and this role requires regular onsite presence (usually between 3-5 days in any given week) in line with business needs. We actively support flexible working arrangements where this is compatible with the role.

Benefits

We have a generous range of benefits (see the full list here) and highlights include:

• A salary of £43,702 (inclusive of a £3,300 specialist allowance)

• Up to 7% corporate performance bonus

• Final salary defined benefits pension scheme with an equivalent of 21.5% employer pension contribution

• 25 days annual leave plus 2.5 'privilege' days; 8 Bank Holidays

• Additional 3 days of site closure over Christmas break

• Flexible working options plus family-friendly leave provisions

• Our commitment to ED&I

• UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds to help us achieve this goal. We are committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility, and strive to ensure fair representation across our workforce.

• We particularly encourage applications from groups currently underrepresented in STEM, including women and people from diverse ethnic backgrounds. All appointments are made on merit and further information can be found here.