IT Project Manager - Nuclear

IT Project Manager - Nuclear

Role Overview

An experienced IT Project Manager is sought to lead strategically important technology initiatives within the nuclear sector. The role involves close collaboration with nuclear business stakeholders and international IT teams, ensuring a strong connection between operational business processes and the delivery of secure, effective IT solutions. The project portfolio includes business-critical IT systems, infrastructure, and IT security components within a highly regulated nuclear environment. The position is part of an international Asset IT Project Management and Consultancy function supporting complex projects across several European countries.

Key Responsibilities

• Independently lead IT projects from concept development through planning, execution, monitoring, delivery, and formal completion.
• Manage projects in accordance with established project-governance principles and delivery models.
• Understand the value, objectives, and expected deliverables of each project, translating business needs into clear and actionable IT requirements.
• Build an effective bridge between nuclear business processes and IT delivery, ensuring project decisions remain aligned with operational requirements.
• Develop, implement, maintain, and communicate project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery priorities.
• Manage project budgets and allocate resources effectively across the delivery lifecycle.
• Coordinate stakeholders including business representatives, solution architects, internal IT departments, and external suppliers.
• Lead, support, and motivate geographically distributed international project teams through active and engaging project leadership.
• Monitor project progress, address delivery issues, and ensure outcomes meet or exceed agreed stakeholder expectations.
• Support knowledge transfer between the nuclear business and IT teams throughout project delivery.

Required Experience and Skills

• At least five years of professional experience leading IT projects.
• Strong general IT knowledge and a practical understanding of how systems, infrastructure, and security technologies support business processes.
• Demonstrable experience managing projects from initiation through implementation and closure.
• Experience managing budgets, resources, project plans, risks, dependencies, and multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience of change management within technology-enabled business programmes.
• Ability to translate business needs into IT requirements and maintain alignment between business and technical delivery teams.
• Experience leading international or geographically distributed project teams.
• Excellent spoken and written Swedish and English. Swedish fluency is essential.
• A genuine interest in the energy sector and in working within a regulated nuclear environment.

Advantageous Experience

• Previous experience within nuclear, energy, utilities, critical infrastructure, or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience delivering infrastructure or IT security projects.
• Experience working within a large international organisation with a complex operating environment.
• Familiarity with structured enterprise project-governance models and formal decision-making processes.

Personal Attributes

• Driven, organised, and capable of independently leading complex assignments.
• A positive and pragmatic approach to solving problems and maintaining delivery momentum.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills across business, technical, and supplier stakeholders.
• Comfortable sharing ideas, constructively challenging assumptions, and responding positively when challenged.
• An engaged team player who can create alignment across multidisciplinary and geographically distributed groups.

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT, Engineering, or another relevant discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Security and Working Conditions

• This assignment requires the supplier to hold an active security-protection agreement for nuclear work before submission.
• The consultant must have lived in Sweden continuously for at least five years and must be eligible to complete all required nuclear security-clearance processes.
• Only consultants supplied through an eligible Swedish supplier can be considered.
• The role requires attendance at the Forsmark office for at least three days per week.
• The assignment is full time and is scheduled from 1st December 2026 to 30th June 2027.