Stakeholder Integration Officer (Utilities)

The UK’s nuclear sector has entered a renaissance, with Nuclear Energy now a vital component as the country moves towards a target of Net Zero.

Assystem provides critical support to this mission, accelerating the decommissioning and remediation of our legacy assets with a view to enabling a swifter energy transition, in parallel overcoming some of the largest engineering and environmental challenges of our generation.

As a Global top 3 independent nuclear engineering organisation, Assystem is active across the full decommissioning lifecycle. In the UK, we work across the Civil and Defence nuclear estates, pioneering agile and fit-for purpose, customer-focused solutions, drawing on our established pedigree for delivery engineering excellence. Assystem have a proud heritage gained over decades both in the UK and overseas, (delivering, supporting, managing) some of the most complex engineering projects in decommissioning, repurposing legacy assets and key new build projects such as Hinkley Point C.

About the role

The Utilities Integration role is based in Helensburgh and will lead on utility (power, water and communication services) stakeholder engagement and management to ensure integration between Programme and site stakeholders through systematic identification and analysis of stakeholders, the planning and conduct of interactions to engage and communicate with them, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests, ensuring their involvement throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• 🔍 Lead utility stakeholder analysis for our clients major project and define effective communication channels
  
  

• 🤝 Coordinate engagement between site leads and Project Managers, ensuring compliance and base processes are met
  
  

• 📊 Develop and maintain utility stakeholder profiles, mapping evolving project needs and influence
  
  

• 🗓️ Plan and deliver stakeholder engagement activities (workshops, forums, meetings), acting as the single point of contact
  
  

• 📢 Ensure timely communication of surveys, outages, diversions, and new connections across all project phases
  
  

• ⚠️ Identify and manage risks to the client site, including mitigation actions
  
  

• 📝 Support capture of stakeholder needs and development of user requirements
  
  
  
  

Essential Skills & Experience

• ⚡ Working knowledge of utilities or utility stakeholder management in a project delivery environment
  
  

• 📐 Familiarity with relevant industry standards and best practices
  
  

Technical Competencies

• 🤝 Stakeholder Management
  
  

• ⚠️ Risk & Issue Management
  
  

• 🏛️ Governance
  
  

Desirable Skills & Experience

• ⭐ Experience managing stakeholders at project management level
  
  

• 🏗️ Exposure to government or public-sector project delivery (advantageous but not essential)
  
  

Qualifications and professional memberships

• APM Project Management Qualification
• PRINCE 2 Practitioner
• Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner
• APMG Change Management Practitioner
• PMI Project Management Professional
  
  

This role will be based on our client site in Helensburgh. Due to the nature of the role it will have access to restricted information which will require a sole UK National Citizen with SC clearance to meet the necessary security criteria.

There is a requirement to be onsite to facilitate workshops, routine meetings and site visits and to engage with the wider team, this currently is a minimum of 2 days per week but could require more at specific times of the programme and should be flexible to facilitate this.

There will also be some travel to central Glasgow and potentially external offices of contractors if necessary.

Permanent or umbrella contractor.

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