Job Title: IT Project Manager
Location: Either Bristol or Bridgwater with travel between both sites
Compensation: Competitive plus benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66562
At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Project Manager at our Hinkley Point C site.
This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance work across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main Mechanical, Electrical, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (MEH), cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station’s vast network of rooms.
The role
As a Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Being part of the MEH Alliance working on Hinkley Point C is a chance to be involved in a major project with national significance. You’ll support the Programme Manager in shaping and delivering key projects within the MEH Programme at Hinkley Point C.
Day to day, you'll work closely with the business within an established project governance structure, building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure alignment and transparency. You’ll act as the voice of the business within the wider IT team, helping translate business requirements, ways of working, and desired outcomes into actionable project plans. Balancing time and priorities will be essential as you manage multiple workstreams, often involving both technical and functional change from inception through to implementation. Your ability to nurture collaborative relationships and maintain a clear understanding of business needs will be key to delivering successful outcomes on complex projects.
- Coordinate and oversee project workstreams within small to medium-scale projects, ensuring efficient allocation of shared resources and skills, and driving delivery across assigned activities and meetings.
- Engage and influence stakeholders across IT and the business, manage third-party supplier relationships, and ensure effective communication and reporting to sponsors and senior leadership.
- Implement and maintain project management best practices, systems, and processes to support delivery assurance, manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, and ensure quality is “Right First Time.”
- Monitor progress and financials, taking corrective action as needed to keep projects on track, managing budgets, costs, and accruals, and supporting finance teams with accurate reporting.
- Act as a business domain expert, understanding operating models, data, processes, and requirements, while managing dependencies and interfaces across projects to ensure alignment and successful outcomes.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week, and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/on site and 3 days working from home. The successful candidate can be based out of either our Aztec West, Bristol or HPC Bridgewater offices with regular travel between the two.
Essential experience of the IT Project Manager
- Experience managing end-to-end delivery of small to medium-scale IT projects, including coordinating workstreams and stakeholder communications.
- Proven ability to implement project governance, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure delivery assurance using structured methodologies.
- Strong background in budget management, financial reporting, and working with finance teams to track costs and accruals.
- Demonstrated understanding of business domains and the ability to translate functional requirements into actionable project plans and documentation.
Qualifications for the IT Project Manager
- Degree in relevant discipline (or equivalent).
- Relevant professional Accreditation e.g. Prince 2 Practitioner, APMP, Scrum Master etc
- Can achieve security clearance (BPSS or higher).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a valid UK passport holder, with the ability 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 Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, 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.
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