Job Description

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF 73587

Shape The Future of Clean Energy And National Infrastructure

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 at our Bristol site.

The role

As a Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in delivering critical components for one of the UK’s most significant nuclear new build programmes.

This role is 37 hours per week, based in Bristol. Flexible working patterns are available, and travel to other Babcock, customer, and European supplier sites will be expected.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading procurement and delivery of electrical bulk equipment including cables, cable trays, and associated systems
• Developing and implementing project execution plans, including preparing tender documentation and managing contract lifecycles
• Managing NEC contracts and ensuring alignment with project strategy, cost efficiency, and quality standards
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders across complex programme interfaces
• Influencing suppliers, partners, and internal teams to ensure integration and successful project outcomes

Essential experience of the Project Manager:

• Demonstrable experience delivering projects in a highly regulated or high hazard industry
• Strong track record of managing NEC contracts or similar frameworks such as FIDIC
• Experience coordinating multiple contractors, suppliers, and stakeholders within complex programmes
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and influence senior stakeholders
• Understanding of electrical systems and their integration within wider engineering environments

Qualifications for the Project Manager:

• Recognised project management qualification such as Association for Project Management (APM) or equivalent
• Degree or equivalent experience in engineering, project management, or a related discipline (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: 02/06/2026

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