Consultant

Job description / Role

This is a client facing role within our UAE nuclear team, working for the future nuclear operator, and providing consultancy and project management in developing their organization structure, roles and responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Working hand in hand with our nuclear client in Abu Dhabi, to help them develop the short, mid and long-term organizational structures
• Working with, and influencing multiple client stakeholders such as Operations, Finance, Procurement, HR
• Managing multiple mini-projects and tasks, and ensuring progress, risks and communications are proactively provided with your client line manager

You will be expected to be based in the clients’ office in Abu Dhabi, with occasional visits to the nuclear plant site in Abu Dhabi, also attend SNC-Lavalin/Atkins internal meetings in our Abu Dhabi office. As an ambassador to the SNC-Lavalin nuclear business, you will be expected to deliver high quality work on behalf of our clients, and be flexible to occasionally work out of hours to deliver to tight schedules

Requirements

Essential Requirements:

• Degree or diploma qualification in science, HR, engineering or project management
• English fluency (native or very fluent)
• At least 3 years professional experience in a management consulting environment
• Familiarity with project management tools and approaches
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including technical English

Desirable Requirements:

• Experience in Nuclear power
• Experience of organizational development or HR
• Experience of Arabic language

Rewards & Benefits:

• A competitive salary
• Accommodation allowance
• Transportation allowance
• 22 calendar days annual leave (based on 5 day working week)
• Medical and life insurance cover
• Company gratuity scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual flight allowance to point of origin
• Employee Well-Being Programme – 24 hour free advice on financial, legal and family care specialists and also access to personal health, fitness and nutrition consultants

About the Company

Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technology based consultancy and support services to the industry, commerce and governments in all of the worlds major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins has a broad range of skills and resources and provides Clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of the projects in the built environment.

We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Shaped by our customers' needs, our vision is to:

• focus on quality
• seek world class design and excellence
• strive to add value
• be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society

Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, U.A.E. Atkins Middle East now employs over 2000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat ), Qatar (Doha) Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait (Kuwait City) and India (Bangalore).