Job Description

Job Title: Programme Manager

Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73705

Lead the future of clean energy delivery on nationally significant projects

At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Programme Manager at any of our Cavendish hubs, near Bristol, Newbury, Leicester, Glasgow or Warrington.

The role

As a Programme Manager, you will take on a pivotal leadership role at the heart of some of the United Kingdom’s most important infrastructure programmes. Supporting major projects such as Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C, you will lead the delivery of Mechanical, Electrical and Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning programmes within the MEH Alliance.

This role is full time, based at any of our main UK locations, including Bristol, Newbury, Leicester, Glasgow, Warrington. Hybrid working patterns are available, with travel to project and customer sites as required.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading programme delivery across multiple large-scale nuclear projects, ensuring performance against cost, schedule and quality targets
• Managing stakeholder relationships, acting as a key interface with customers, partners and internal teams
• Identifying, assessing and mitigating risks and opportunities to drive successful outcomes
• Overseeing financial management, forecasting and commercial performance of programmes
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to allocate resources and deliver strategic objectives

Essential experience of the Programme Manager:

• Demonstrating significant experience applying advanced project and programme management techniques in regulated environments
• Managing full lifecycle delivery of large-scale, multi-million-pound projects or portfolios
• Showing strong commercial awareness, including contract and financial management expertise
• Leading and developing multidisciplinary teams to achieve high performance
• Understanding financial controls and forecasting within complex project environments

Qualifications for the Programme Manager:

• A relevant professional qualification in project or programme management would be advantageous
• Degree-level qualification in engineering, business, or a related discipline is desirable

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: 01/06/2026

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