Job Description

Job Title: Piping Project Manager

Location: Aztec West, Bristol, Gloucestershire

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF77348

Lead the delivery strategy for one of the United Kingdom’s most significant clean energy programmes

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Piping Project Manager at Aztec West, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.

The role

As a Piping Project Manager, you'll lead the development of delivery strategies and execution plans for a major piping programme during the critical project definition phase.

You will work 37 hours per week, based at Aztec West, Bristol. Flexible working arrangements are available, with attendance at the Bristol office required every Tuesday and onsite presence expected two to three days per week. Travel to customer and project locations will be expected.

Day-to-day, you’ll

• Lead the development of delivery strategies and project execution plans for the Sizewell C piping programme.
• Drive the adoption of modular construction and offsite manufacturing solutions to improve project delivery.
• Coordinate suppliers, engineering disciplines and major stakeholders to support programme integration and delivery objectives.
• Develop project schedules, cost strategies and risk mitigation plans that support safe and efficient execution

Essential experience of the Piping Project Manager:

• Proven project management experience within a high-hazard, highly regulated environment.
• Experience managing major engineering, procurement and construction contractors and supplier interfaces.
• Experience developing delivery strategies that improve safety, reduce risk and optimise project schedules and costs.
• Strong supplier management and stakeholder engagement experience across complex programmes.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating multiple delivery interfaces.

Qualifications for the Piping Project Manager:

• Engineering degree or equivalent qualification.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 25/11/2026

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