Job Description

Overview

Do you thrive on building strong relationships and enjoy bringing people together to deliver meaningful outcomes? Are you looking for an opportunity to make a real impact in the nuclear industry?

Join us as a Project Manager, where you’ll work on a diverse portfolio of high-profile and complex projects, while continuing to grow as a well-rounded professional. At AtkinsRéalis, we value your unique skills, experiences, and ways of working, and we’re excited to see how you can help shape the future of nuclear construction and a cleaner, zero-carbon future.

Your role

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Be part of our Nuclear New Build business within the Project Delivery Capability team, contributing to complex and impactful engineering projects.
• Work across a wide variety of opportunities, from technical leadership to project management, within a growing and dynamic team.
• Lead or support project delivery, either managing AtkinsRéalis engineering projects or working as an embedded partner within client programmes.
• Take ownership of delivery at a work package level, ensuring alignment with time, cost, quality, and performance expectations.
• Build and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders across the nuclear sector, leveraging established partnerships.
• Contribute to a global portfolio of projects across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East, including both large civil nuclear and emerging nuclear technologies.
• Support major programmes such as Hinkley Point C, Sizewell C, Small Modular Reactors, and Fusion initiatives.
• Work flexibly across office locations (Bristol, Epsom and Manchester) and client sites, gaining exposure to diverse project environments.
• Apply best practice project management approaches to review, measure, and align with internal and external standards and procedures.
• Play a key role in shaping project delivery while growing your own experience and capabilities.
• Contribute to bid and proposal activities where opportunities arise, supporting the development of compelling and client-focused submissions.
• Bring an interest in bid management or business development, with opportunities to build your experience in securing and shaping future work

About you

We take a strengths-based approach, focusing on what you naturally do well and how you can grow and thrive with us. Given the breadth of opportunities in this role, we welcome a range of project management styles and backgrounds. You may find that many of the following resonate with you:

• You enjoy building strong relationships and collaborating with a diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic environments.
• You’re motivated by working in complex project settings where you can bring structure, clarity, and direction.
• You bring a proactive and self-starting mindset, feeling comfortable adapting to change and responding to emerging challenges.
• You enjoy applying a blend of project management best practices and people-focused leadership to deliver meaningful outcomes.
• You take pride in delivering work aligned to key performance measures such as schedule, cost, margin, and quality.
• You feel confident managing or supporting delivery at a work package level, ensuring accountability and progress.
• You communicate clearly and effectively, both in conversation and in written form, and value open, constructive engagement.
• You’re energised by working in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams and contributing to shared success.
• You have experience in stakeholder management and enjoy building trust and alignment across different groups.
• You’re motivated to take on new challenges, continuously learn, and support others in their development.
• You are familiar with, or open to working with, project management tools and systems such as MS Project, stage gate processes, or similar platforms.
• You bring curiosity, resilience, and a desire to contribute to impactful projects within the nuclear sector.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.