Job Description

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Warrington, Cheshire or Preston, Lancashire + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71442

Lead the Future of Clean Energy Through Winning Work

About Us

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 Project Manager for our Business Winning team at Warrington or Preston, near Manchester, Lancashire.

As a Business Winning Project Manager, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping our growth—driving the development of winning proposals, innovative technical solutions, and compelling bids that secure the projects defining tomorrow’s clean‑energy and national‑security landscape. This is your opportunity to influence high‑impact programmes from day one, then carry that knowledge through into delivery, giving you a rare chance to shape the full lifecycle of some of the UK’s most meaningful engineering challenges.

The Role

This role sits at the heart of how Cavendish Nuclear expands and delivers its mission. You’ll use your project management expertise to lead bid activities, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and create solutions that stand out in a competitive marketplace. The work you do will help safeguard the UK’s energy future, strengthen national capability, and advance your own development as part of a growing, future‑focused organisation.

This is a full-time role with 37 hours per week based in Warrington, Cheshire or Preston, Lancashire. Hybrid working arrangements are available with office presence as and when project requires. Travel to other Cavendish Nuclear and customer sites will be expected.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Lead on Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Quality to ensure every project meets the highest standards.
• Manage the customer interface while identifying, assessing, and responding to project risks, opportunities, and emerging issues.Establish effective project governance with clear roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities.
• Drive world‑class delivery through strong team engagement, continuous improvement, and innovation.
• Plan and monitor project performance (profit and loss), preparing clear, accurate reports and implementing corrective actions when required.

Essential experience of the Project Manager Business Winning:

• Recent and relevant experience leading projects within a similar engineering or technical environment.
• Significant experience in project management, including multidisciplinary project teams.
• Understanding of contracting methodologies such as FIDIC, NEC3 or JCT.
• Experience across the full project lifecycle from bid to close‑out.
• Ability to build strong stakeholder relationships internally, externally, and across supply chains.

Qualifications for the Project Manager Business Winning:

Essential:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, project management, construction management, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Engineering degree (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline.

Preferred:

• APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or working towards it.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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: 09/04/2026

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