Our people are unique. Our teams are exceptional. Our expectations are high.
NCL aggregates expertise. In-house consultants, independent associates and specialists from affiliate companies are combined into one team under a consulting partner or project director, chosen for the assignment rather than for who happens to be available. The client sees one team and one point of accountability. The expert keeps the independence that made them worth engaging.
The expectations are the same whichever way you work with NCL: world-class professional ability, sound judgement and delivery experience that stands up to scrutiny in a regulated environment.
The modelAccess without ownershipClients get senior nuclear expertise when the work needs them and for as long as the work lasts, without carrying them permanently. The people who provide that expertise keep their independence, their clients and their standing, and gain a company behind them that answers for the work.
Four ways to join NCL
The routes differ in what you bring, what NCL provides and how much you commit. They share the same standard of work.
| PartnerOwn a market or a discipline | AssociateStay independent, work on selected assignments | ConsultantEmployed by NCL, or contracted for a period | Bring Your Own ClientMove an existing client relationship to NCL | |
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| You bring | Clients, judgement and standing in the industry | Deep expertise, usually decades deep, and your independence | A career in nuclear delivery and the appetite to build a bigger one | A client who values you and no longer wants to engage your PSC |
| NCL provides | The consulting practices, the quality system, the operations behind the work and a share of the revenue you generate | Scope, integration, governance and review, and the route to clients you would not reach alone | Senior work from the first day, development beyond any single engagement, and progression towards technical, practice or business leadership | Employment, a compliant consultancy contract with your client, continuity of the role and, over time, a wider portfolio |
| Accountability | You answer to the client for the assignment. Where you bring the client, the relationship stays yours | Your expertise stays visible to the client; NCL answers for the engagement | Under a partner’s direction and a service director’s standards | NCL stands behind the engagement, its governance and its quality |
| Commitment | Fractional and non-exclusive | Assignment by assignment | Employed, or a fixed-term contract across several client projects | Employed, on terms structured to suit you |
| Suits | Senior people whose standing depends on staying active at the top of the industry | The third of nuclear experts who work alone or in small companies | People building a consulting career in nuclear | Experienced consultants caught by IR35 with the client still asking for them |
| Find out more | Partners and directors | Associates | Consultants | Bring Your Own Client |