Senior Project Manager - Nuclear Sector

About the role

Egis is looking for an accomplished Senior Project Manager to lead complex workstreams on one of the UK's most significant new nuclear programmes. This is a senior delivery role for someone who can turn strategic objectives into executable plans, establish control in a fast-moving environment and give clients confidence that commitments will be met. The position is UK-wide and full-time.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery of complex project workstreams, turning client objectives into clear scope, plans, milestones and accountabilities.
• Maintain integrated schedules, budgets, resource plans and performance baselines, using evidence to forecast outcomes and drive action.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and manage interfaces across engineering, commercial, supply chain, assurance and wider programme functions.
• Own project risk, opportunity, change and dependency management, intervening early to protect critical outcomes.
• Provide concise, decision-ready reporting to senior stakeholders and governance forums, with recommendations and recovery actions where required.
• Manage suppliers and delivery partners against contractual commitments, resolving performance issues and maintaining constructive commercial relationships.
• Champion a strong culture of safety, quality, collaboration and continuous improvement across the project.

Required profile

• Substantial experience leading major projects or complex workstreams in nuclear, energy, infrastructure or another highly regulated environment, ideally in a client-side, advisory or programme leadership capacity.
• A relevant degree, technical qualification or equivalent professional experience, together with a recognised project management qualification such as APM PMQ or PMI equivalent; ChPP or comparable professional registration is advantageous.
• The right to work in the UK.

Required skills

• Strong command of scope, schedule, cost, risk, change, governance and performance reporting.
• Assured leadership ability to set expectations and bring multidisciplinary teams together.
• Commercial and supplier management, balancing delivery priorities with contractual, safety, quality and regulatory obligations.

What we offer

• A competitive rewards package.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangements.
• The chance to lead work shaping a nationally significant new nuclear programme and to develop your career within a growing nuclear business.