Civil Engineer in Leiston

At Assystem, our mission is to accelerate the energy transition worldwide. Our 8,000 Switchers blend historical engineering expertise with cutting-edge digital technologies to drive this change. Join us in revolutionizing the energy sector and making a significant global impact.

As a Civil Engineer – Enabling & Earthworks, you will join the Civil Works Programme (CWP) for a major nuclear project, with a total scope valued at approximately £9 billion. The Civil Works Programme is divided into three key sub-programmes:

• Enabling & Earthworks
• Main Civils & Ancillary Works
• Marine & Tunnelling

This role acts as an Interface Engineer, and this Integration function within the Civil Works Programme is the focal point in supporting the co-ordination of the activities in each of the three sub-programmes, along with Site Operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a key link within the Interface Management Plan, coordinating interfaces and ensuring alignment between CWP teams and the Project Management Office.
• Produce clear, standardised reports for senior stakeholders, highlighting performance, risks, and key interface issues.
• Promote a collaborative approach across teams to ensure interfaces are understood, managed, and effectively resolved.
• Support Project Managers in developing interface agreements that deliver best-for-project outcomes while maintaining the highest health & safety standards.
• Implement and maintain interface management processes across the project lifecycle.
• Capture and manage interface agreements, ensuring clear ownership and accountability.
• Monitor interface progress, ensuring alignment with project schedules and initiating change requests when required.
• Track, manage, and close interface issues efficiently.
• Develop and manage Interface Milestone Definition Sheets (IMDS), ensuring clear success criteria, scope, dependencies, and impacts are defined for key milestones.

Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years experience as a Civil Engineer
• Minimum Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering
• APM qualified would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of construction activities, approaches, standards and expectations.
• Understanding and communicating complex technical and commercial issues to the satisfaction of key stakeholders.
• The ability to build, maintain and manage key internal and external stakeholder relationships, fostering their optimal engagement and contribution to the development and implementation of effective strategies and plans to manage stakeholders.

Join us at Assystem and be part of a global team delivering some of the most exciting and complex engineering projects in the world. This is your chance to shape the UK’s energy future while developing your expertise in a unique environment.

Benefits include:

• Hybrid Working Opportunity
• Flexible working hours
• Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
• 25 days’ paid annual leave + bank holidays + option to buy or sell days
• Professional fees reimbursed
• Employee referral scheme
• Competitive Sick Pay – Support when you need it
• Income Protection & 3x Salary Death-in-Service Cover
• Free Digital Gym Access – Expert-led fitness classes
• 24/7 Employee Support Line – Mental health, financial & legal help

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!