Head of Nuclear, Asia

Overview

The Nuclear Director, Southeast Asia will deliver regional technical and market leadership for AtkinsRéalis' nuclear business across ASEAN.

As part of the Nuclear EMEA organisation and reporting to the Head of Middle East and Southeast Asia, this role will build and expand AtkinsRéalis' nuclear service offering throughout the region. The Nuclear Director will work closely with government nuclear programmes and programme developers to help clients clearly understand their needs and connect those needs with AtkinsRéalis' established global nuclear capabilities.

This position blends external market and client engagement with internal leadership across AtkinsRéalis' nuclear organisation. Rather than developing a stand-alone regional capability, the Nuclear Director must bring together the most suitable expertise, experience, and delivery capacity from across AtkinsRéalis to meet the specific requirements of each client and market.

In partnership with regional business development teams, the Nuclear Director will provide the nuclear competence, experience, and credibility that support our market proposition—helping to develop trusted client relationships and enable sustainable nuclear growth across Southeast Asia.

Your role

• Provide regional technical and market leadership for AtkinsRéalis' nuclear activities across ASEAN, helping define priorities, propositions, and go-to-market routes.
• Establish AtkinsRéalis as a credible and trusted nuclear partner for government nuclear programmes and their developers by building senior relationships and developing a deep understanding of emerging programme requirements.
• Partner with business development to lead account management, identify and develop nuclear opportunities, and provide the technical credibility and nuclear-sector experience needed to support the commercial proposition.
• Serve as a senior nuclear representative for AtkinsRéalis within the region, engaging with clients, governments, industry, and other stakeholders regarding nuclear programme development and delivery.
• Develop a clear understanding of each country's nuclear ambitions, programme maturity, and emerging requirements, using these insights to align AtkinsRéalis' capabilities with market needs.
• Convert client and programme challenges into clearly defined requirements, assembling the appropriate AtkinsRéalis capabilities to address them.
• Mobilise multidisciplinary expertise across AtkinsRéalis to support regional pursuits and client engagements, ensuring the organisation delivers a coherent nuclear proposition rather than isolated service offerings.
• Apply experience gained from established and emerging nuclear programmes internationally to help clients understand programme requirements, risks, delivery models, and practical pathways to implementation.
• Work across a broad range of nuclear technologies and vendor propositions while maintaining a technology-informed, appropriately independent perspective on client requirements.
• Provide senior technical leadership and assurance to opportunities, proposals, and early client engagements, ensuring AtkinsRéalis' commitments are underpinned by credible experience and deliverable capability.
• Represent AtkinsRéalis at relevant industry, government, and client forums, sharing informed nuclear perspectives and strengthening the organisation's profile across the region.
• Collaborate across geographic and organisational boundaries by building strong links between regional teams and AtkinsRéalis' established nuclear businesses and capabilities.
• Support the development and conversion of a sustainable pipeline of nuclear opportunities while maintaining a strong focus on long-term client relationships and durable regional capability, rather than short-term transactional sales.
  
  

What Success Looks Like

• In the first three years, success will mean:
• AtkinsRéalis has established a recognisable and credible nuclear service across ASEAN.
• Strong relationships have been built with priority nuclear clients, especially government programmes and their developers.
• AtkinsRéalis' existing global nuclear expertise is accessed and deployed effectively into Southeast Asian opportunities through an established team-of-teams model.
• Business development activity is consistently supported by credible nuclear leadership and demonstrable delivery capability.
• Early engagements and opportunities evolve into enduring client relationships and a sustainable regional nuclear business.
• The organisation has developed enough insight into the regional nuclear landscape to anticipate client needs and position AtkinsRéalis appropriately as national programmes mature.
  
  

About You

• The successful candidate will be an established nuclear leader with the personal credibility and broad experience required to represent AtkinsRéalis with senior government, client, and industry stakeholders.
• The ideal candidate will have:
• Approximately 20 years' experience in the nuclear sector, including substantial experience related to nuclear new-build programmes.
• Broad experience across the nuclear lifecycle and direct exposure to multiple reactor technologies and technology providers, enabling informed and independent dialogue on different programme and technology approaches.
• Strong personal credibility across the nuclear industry and the confidence to engage with senior government, client, developer, and industry stakeholders.
• A solid understanding of requirements involved in establishing and delivering nuclear programmes, beyond individual engineering disciplines or technologies.
• Experience operating within complex, multidisciplinary nuclear organisations, bringing together capabilities from different teams, businesses, and geographies.
• The ability to translate nuclear programme challenges into practical scopes of work and mobilise the right technical and programme expertise to address them.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to collaborate with colleagues to develop opportunities without compromising technical integrity.
• Experience supporting major pursuits, proposals, and strategic client engagements.
• The ability to work effectively in an international and cross-cultural environment.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, including the ability to make complex nuclear topics accessible to both specialist and non-specialist senior stakeholders.
• A collaborative leadership approach suitable for a matrix organisation, with the ability to lead through influence and networks rather than relying on direct organisational authority.
• Experience working in Southeast Asia would be advantageous; however, the key requirement is deep nuclear-sector credibility combined with the ability to connect regional client needs to international nuclear capability.
  
  

What We Can Offer You

• A rare chance to take a leading role in establishing AtkinsRéalis' nuclear presence across one of the world's emerging nuclear markets.
• The opportunity to work directly with governments, programme developers, and senior stakeholders as nuclear programmes develop across Southeast Asia.
• Access to AtkinsRéalis' extensive international nuclear expertise and the ability to bring that capability together around new client challenges.
• Varied, strategically important work across market development, programme advisory, technical leadership, and client engagement.
• The opportunity to shape an enduring regional nuclear business rather than only delivering a pre-defined portfolio of work.
• Access to broader training, professional development, and career opportunities across AtkinsRéalis.
  
  

Rewards & benefits

Discover the rewards and benefits designed to help you thrive—at every stage of your life and career.

This Includes

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
• Premium medical insurance.
• Generous annual leave balance.
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
• Remote work opportunities outside of country.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Relocation assistance.
• Transportation & housing allowances (available for remote work locations).
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
  
  

Seize every opportunity to strengthen your skills, broaden your expertise, and be recognised for the impact you deliver.

About AtkinsRéalis

We are AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organisation. We connect people, data, and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers, and project managers, we can help change the world. We are committed to helping lead our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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