Gemma Harfield

Astute’s Nuclear team is partnering with a company who are leaders in lifecycle construction and operations for the Utilities and Infrastructure sectors and are looking for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveying (SQS) to act as the key commercial link between project delivery teams and senior project management. As the Senior Quantity Surveyor, you’ll manage commercial risk and opportunities, support commercial strategy development, and provide oversight across both operational and project functions. This role involves close collaboration with pre-construction teams, dispute resolution, cost estimation, and maintaining commercial standards. You’ll lead a commercial team, ensure compliance with corporate governance, and manage key stakeholder relationships across internal teams, clients, and suppliers. If you’re a SQS with experience in drafting and issuing NEC contracts, working with multi-disciplined teams and have excellent commercial awareness, then upload your CV to apply today.                 Responsibilities and duties As the Senior Quantity Surveyor you will:

• Support the creation and delivery of a robust commercial vision and strategy, providing inspirational leadership and coaching to commercial teams to promote commercial awareness and high performance.
• Deliver accurate and insightful financial reporting and governance, ensuring alignment with project budgets and targets, and driving a culture of commercialism, efficiency, and innovation.
• Resolve commercial disputes effectively while maintaining relationships and protecting the company’s reputation, ensuring appropriate risk exposure in all activities.
• Ensure supply chain services meet company standards and manage client relationships to achieve key business KPIs, safeguarding business interests and reputation.
• Assist in implementing performance improvement initiatives, support procurement and contractual management, and oversee quotations and presentations within tight timeframes.

Professional qualifications We are looking for someone with the following:

• Experience of managing the commercial delivery of multi-disciplined projects across engineering, construction, operations, and maintenance in multiple industries.

 

• BSc in Quantity Surveying (or equivalent experience).
• Experience and knowledge of industry contract types, particularly the NEC suite of contracts.
• Strong numeracy & analytical skills and knowledge of accounting policies and principles.
• Planning, problem-solving, and change management skills with the ability to make things happen.

Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to influence effectively at a senior level and articulate views convincingly. Personal skills The SQS role would suit someone who is:

• An aspiring leader who provides guidance and coaching.
• Encourages teamwork and inspires confidence.
• Enlists the best performance of colleagues and external resources.
• Builds professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Rates of the QS role

• Inside IR35
• Contract length – 6-9 months
• £450 - £500 per day

Astute’s Nuclear team is partnering with the leading provider of nuclear support services in the UK to recruit a Senior Integrated Planner for its Glasgow location. The strategically important Senior Integrated Planner role comes with a salary of up to £70,000 and flexible working. If you’re a Planner and are looking to work for an organisation that puts integrity and people at the forefront of everything it does, then submit your CV to apply today.                 Responsibilities and duties As the Senior Integrated Planner you will:  

• Gather and combine data from various sources to create P6 Resource-loaded schedules.
• Collaborate extensively with key stake holders across different organisational boundaries.
• Create and maintain individual Site Directors' Primavera P6 plans as needed.
• Identify, analyse, and report on discrepancies, risks, issues, and opportunities in the integrated plans to ensure timely solutions and value for money for the MOD.
• Develop and oversee a monthly DHI-level CSI integrated infrastructure plan to provide a strategic overview.
• Demonstrate cause-and-effect relationships and run mitigation scenarios when necessary.
• Work with NC, Project Managers, and MOD to ensure a consistent, reliable version of the truth.
• Engage with Engineering and Compliance groups to understand their tasks and interactions.
• Communicate effectively with the entire Clyde Community.
• Prepare monthly reports on progress, changes, cause and effect, and mitigation measures for the CSI Steering Board, NC, and MOD.
• Submit the integrated infrastructure plan to the HMNBC strategic plan monthly, ensuring it is accurate and reliable.

Professional qualifications We are looking for someone with the following:  

• Experience in producing P6 Schedules is essential
• SC Clearence prior or current (DV would be highly desirable)
• Primavera P6 practitioner
• Project Management qualifications would be desirable
• Experience with NEC 3 or 4 contracts would be desirable

Personal skills The Senior Integrated Planner role would suit someone who is:  

• Experienced in stakeholder management
• Capable of managing multiple workstreams
• Knowledgeable in change and risk management

Salary and benefits of the Senior Integrated Planner role  

• Up to £70,000
• Hybrid working
• Opportunities for growth and progression
• Benefits package  

   

Astute are partnered with Capula, part of the EDF Group, a long-established and highly reputable system integration specialist operating across energy, water, renewables and manufacturing sectors. Due to continued growth, Capula are looking for a Project Manager to join their Energy team, based in Stone with flexible working available. This is a delivery-focused role managing upgrade and modification projects for Transmission substation protection and control systems, primarily for National Grid and other Power Transmission clients. As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for delivering complex engineering projects safely, on time, within budget, and to customer expectations.   Responsibilities and duties of the Project Manager role As the Project Manager, you will be:  

• Managing multiple projects ranging from £50K to £2M from start to finish
• Delivering projects to scope, budget, quality, and programme targets
• Owning full financial responsibility for assigned projects
• Managing subcontractors and external suppliers
• Leading multi-disciplinary teams (hardware, software, installation engineers)
• Running client progress and review meetings
• Ensuring full compliance with QEHS requirements across all projects
• Identifying and managing commercial and technical risks early
• Supporting project delivery using planning and scheduling tools
• Helping secure future work through strong client relationships and delivery performance

  Professional qualifications We are looking for someone with the following:  

• Project management experience in an engineering environment
• Ideally experience in Power Transmission / regulated industries
• Strong experience using Microsoft Project for planning and scheduling
• Ability to manage subcontractors and complex project delivery
• Strong commercial awareness and risk management skills
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel / stay away when required
• Strong track record of delivering projects to time, cost, and quality
• Experience working with NEC3 / NEC4 contracts

Desirable:

• APM qualification (or working towards it)
• Experience in bid work / project proposals

Personal Skills The Project Manager role would suit someone who is:  

• Strong communicator with internal and external stakeholders
• Commercially aware and detail focused
• A confident leader with team management experience
• Organised and able to manage multiple projects
• Proactive in identifying and resolving issues
• Calm under pressure and delivery focused

Salary and benefits of the Project Manager role

• Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
• 28 days holiday + bank holidays
• Flexible working arrangements
• Pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Private healthcare
• Lifestyle screening
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Mental health assistance programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Green car scheme
• Support toward professional registration (IEng / CEng) and paid membership fees

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Astute’s Nuclear team is partnering with a leading company working within the Nuclear Engineer sector, currently require a Principal/Senior Structural Engineer to join their team in Oxford. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge and practical application of structural engineering within highly regulated sectors and possess security clearance.    The position sits outside IR35, paying around £50-£65 per hour and will start with a 12 month contract. Suitable candidates will ideally work in their Oxfordshire sites on a hybrid basis, however if further away, applications will still be considered. If you’re a Principal/Senior Structural Engineer and are looking to work for an organisation that believes their people are the key to success, then upload your CV to apply today.                   Responsibilities and duties As a Principal/Senior Structural Engineer you will work in a hands-on design-based position to deliver and design engineering solutions. This will involve:

• Preparation of design documentation throughout the design process
• Development of designs to satisfy technical specifications
• Prepare supporting design calculations to substantiate design
• Contribution to design reviews
• Preparation of technical specifications
• Preparation of risk assessments, technical files and other technical documentation required by safety legislation and procedures

    Professional qualifications We are looking for someone with the following:  

• Delivering functions above that of a Design Engineer
• A recognised Engineering Certificate such as HNC / HND / Degree
• Knowledge of the fundamentals of structures and foundations using Reinforced Concrete and Structural Steel.
• Design experience in Reinforced Concrete and Structural Steel.
• Knowledge and understanding of Structural steel connections and connection types.
• Demonstrable competence gained in a design delivery position

    Personal skills The Principal/Senior Structural Engineer role would suit someone who has:  

• DV security clearance or the ability to go through the vetting process.

    Salary and benefits of the Principal/Senior Structural Engineer role  

• £50 - £65 an hour
• 12-month contract

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Astute’s Nuclear team is partnering with a leading provider of complex Engineering Solutions and services to the nuclear energy, industrial and petrochemical sector, to recruit a Senior Integrity Engineer to be based at Sizewell B. This brand new position will be performing inspection of industrial plant for the monitoring of degradation and corrosion of assets, while developing relationships with customers. This role comes with a base salary up to £56,000 per annum. If you’re a Integrity Engineer, or Corrosion Engineer from a regulated sector and are looking to work for an organisation in the nuclear sector that that invests in itself and their employees, then submit your CV to apply today.                 Responsibilities and duties Reporting to the Integrity Manager you will:  

• Conduct assessments of industrial plant items such as pipework, vessels, tanks, supporting structures.
• Conduct inspections and make recommendations while liaising with company Technical Authorities to develop solutions and propose improvements with respect to known degradation issues.
• Review proposals for remedial work and recommendations for corrosion management according to industry best practice.
• Develop and refine inspection routines.
• Develop resource plans for inspection activities according to schedule and scope requirements.

Professional qualifications We are looking for someone with the following:  

• Qualified in plant inspection such as Level 2 or 3 CSWIP Plant Inspector.

Personal skills The Senior Integrity Engineer role would suit someone who is:  

• Substantial inspection/integrity experience.
• Self-motivated and driven to deliver own workload with minimal oversite.
• Aspirations to broader team management and capability development within a large multifaceted organisation.
• Experience in working within a highly regulated environment, such as Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Nuclear, Chemical Production, or Aerospace (for example).

Salary and benefits of the Senior Integrity Engineer role  

• A base salary up to £56,000 per annum,

Astute are partnered with a highly respected engineering consultancy delivering complex EC&I design solutions across the UK nuclear sector, including new build, existing generation, decommissioning and defence projects.

Our client is looking for a Mid-Level EC&I Design Engineer to join their established engineering team based in Bridgwater. This role is ideal for an EC&I Engineer looking to take the next step in their career, gain exposure to high-integrity nuclear projects, and develop technically within a supportive and collaborative environment.

The EC&I Design Engineer role comes with a competitive salary, flexible working options and an excellent benefits package.

If you’re an EC&I Engineer with design experience looking for a long-term, technically interesting role, submit your CV to apply today.

Responsibilities and duties

As the EC&I Design Engineer, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Producing EC&I design deliverables including:

  • Block Cable Diagrams

  • Single Line Diagrams

  • General Arrangement Drawings

  • Wiring Schematics using AutoCAD

• Producing electrical and instrumentation equipment schedules

• Supporting the specification and selection of EC&I equipment

• Ensuring designs meet project, safety and regulatory requirements

• Taking ownership of allocated work packages and supporting issue resolution

• Working closely with internal engineering, project and management teams

• Communicating with customers and supporting long-term working relationships

• Occasional site visits, including overnight stays when necessary

Professional qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

• 2+ years’ experience in an EC&I engineering or design role

• HNC (minimum) in Electrical, Instrumentation or Control Engineering

• Experience designing EC&I systems and producing technical drawings

• Familiarity with EC&I equipment used in conventional and safety-related applications

• Ability to interpret requirements and produce compliant designs

• Good understanding of health and safety principles

• Clear and concise technical documentation skills

• Eligible for security clearance for government and regulated industries

Desirable (but not essential):

• HND or higher qualification

• Nuclear or other highly regulated industry experience

• Functional safety awareness (IEC 61508 / IEC 61513)

• PLC programming or system integration knowledge

• Understanding of engineering standards and compliance

• Knowledge of BS7671 IET Wiring Regulations

Personal skills

The EC&I Design Engineer role would suit someone who has:

• Strong communication skills

• The ability to work both independently and as part of a team

• A proactive and professional approach to problem solving

• Flexibility to attend site and client meetings when required

Salary and benefits of the EC&I Design Engineer role

• Salary between £30-£45,000 DOE

• 37.5 hours per week

• Optional 4- or 5-day working week (compressed hours available)

• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays

• 8% company pension contribution

• Healthcare Health Cash Plan

• Profit-related bonus scheme

• Staff wellbeing fund – employees decide how it’s spent

• Office-based role in Bridgwater (TA6) with some flexibility for home working

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Job Posting National Major Projects Sales Manager – Land-based Location: National (UK-wide) Effective: ASAP About Us Roxtec, founded in Sweden in 1990, is the world leader in cable and pipe seals. Our pioneering modular-based seals with Multidiameter™ have driven rapid and sustainable growth, built on committed people, strong values, and a clear customer focus. National Major Projects Sales Manager We are seeking a technical sales professional to lead Roxtec’s engagement with major land-based projects across the UK. This national role is responsible for identifying, targeting, and maximising the potential of 5–10 major projects annually, ensuring Roxtec solutions are specified and adopted in high-value, strategic applications. Job Description

• Major Project Focus: Identify, prioritise, and develop relationships with key stakeholders on major UK projects (across rail, advanced facilities, pharma, telecoms, power generation, onshore chemical and oil & gas, and construction).
• Strategic Engagement: Work closely with owners, operators, engineering design firms, and contractors to ensure Roxtec solutions are specified and adopted in major projects.
• Project Pipeline: Build and manage a pipeline of 5–10 high-impact projects per year, from initial engagement through to specification, approval, and delivery.
• Business Development: Develop new business opportunities nationally, leveraging industry news, project databases, and relationships to identify and engage with major projects.
• Client Management: Maintain and grow relationships with existing clients, focusing on long-term partnerships and repeat business on major projects.
• Technical Promotion: Present Roxtec solutions to specifying engineers (electrical, control, instrumentation, mechanical, structural) via technical presentations, site visits, installation training, and other appropriate means.
• Sales Planning: Create and execute targeted sales plans for major projects, aligning resources to maximise project success and sales growth.
• Market Intelligence: Provide routine, accurate, and meaningful market information, forecasting, and product planning to management, with a focus on major project trends.
• Pre-sales Support: Deliver technical advice and solution guidance, including design input for bespoke products as required.
• CRM & Reporting: Plan and manage all customer contacts and meetings within Roxtec CRM system, ensuring accurate reporting and forecasting.
• Core Values: Effectively promote and apply Roxtec Core Values, both internally and within the industry.
• Networking: Attend industry events and forums to network and identify new major project opportunities.

Preferred Job Requirements

• University degree and/or equivalent experience. Consideration given to candidates with significant industry experience in similar roles.
• Proven sales experience, ideally presenting complex technical solutions to decision makers and specifying engineers on major projects.
• Existing relationships within owner/operators, engineering, contracting, and design firms involved in major UK projects.
• Strong understanding of industrial business practices and effective sales techniques, with a consultancy approach.
• Experience in business development, structured planning, and new prospect engagement at a national level.
• Ability to use industry news, project databases, and relationships to develop technical sales opportunities.
• Excellent networking and interpersonal communication skills (written and oral).
• Proven ability to manage long-term, complex sales projects to success.
• Willingness to travel nationally and internationally as required.

Beneficial Skills / Knowledge

• Experience providing technical support and surveying applications.
• Successful track record of selling premium solutions against low-cost competitors.
• Knowledge and experience within power, process, industry, and infrastructure markets preferred.

Astute’s Environmental team is working with a purpose-driven consultancy recognised for its collaborative culture and technical excellence, to recruit an Associate / Associate Director – Ecology, based in either London or Redhill (Gatwick), with flexible hybrid working.

This Associate / Associate Director – Ecology role offers a salary of £65,000 to £72,000, alongside flexible working, structured progression, and a collaborative team environment committed to sustainability and innovation.

If you're an experienced ecological consultant looking to take a lead role in shaping the future of ecology consultancy in the South East — while working across varied, high-impact projects submit your CV to apply today.

Responsibilities and duties of the Associate / Associate Director – Ecology role

Reporting to the Business Unit Director, you will:

• Lead the planning and delivery of a broad portfolio of ecological projects

• Prepare and review PEAs, EcIAs, ES chapters, BNG assessments, and HRA reports

• Provide high-quality technical and commercial advice to clients

• Oversee project delivery, ensuring financial performance and client satisfaction

• Write and contribute to tenders, bids, and proposals

• Mentor junior team members and support professional development

• Act as technical reviewer for reports and deliverables

• Identify opportunities for new services and client growth

• Champion best practice in health, safety, and quality assurance

Professional qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

• A relevant degree (Ecology, Environmental Science, or related discipline)

• Extensive consultancy experience, ideally at Senior, Principal or Associate level

• Full membership of CIEEM (or working toward it)

• Chartered status (CEcol or CEnv) desirable

• Strong knowledge of UK wildlife legislation, planning policy, and protected species

• Proven track record in project management and client engagement

• Experience in team leadership and technical mentoring

• A full UK manual driving licence

Personal skills

The Associate / Associate Director – Ecology role would suit someone who is:

• Commercially aware, technically excellent, and collaborative in approach

• Passionate about delivering pragmatic, high-quality solutions

• Skilled in both independent and team-based working

• Looking to make a long-term impact within a growing team

• Excited by a leadership role that combines hands-on delivery with strategic growth

Salary and benefits of the Associate / Associate Director – Ecology role

• £65,000 – £72,000 depending on experience

• Car allowance (up to £5,000)

• Flexible hybrid working (1–2 days per week in-office preferred)

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (option to buy more)

• Private medical insurance

• Career development and chartership support

• Annual salary review aligned to market standards

• Collaborative and inclusive team culture