Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 70604
Lead The Future Of Major Nuclear Programmes
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 Senior Project Manager at our Bristol Technology Centre, near Bristol.
The role
As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead and shape a complex, long-term nuclear programme at an early and influential stage of its lifecycle. This is a high-impact leadership role is in the defence business unit stream, where you will set strategic direction, oversee project governance, and guide multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, sustainable, and cost-effective outcomes.
The role is based at Bristol Technology Centre, working 37 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available, with regular collaboration across internal teams, partners, and customers.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Leading large-scale nuclear projects and programmes, ensuring delivery against cost, schedule, quality, and safety objectives
- Managing and developing high-performing project teams, including project managers, engineers, and graduates
- Driving robust governance, assurance, and reporting in line with internal and customer expectations
- Engaging confidently with senior stakeholders, clients, and joint venture partners across multiple organisations
- Shaping programme strategy through lifecycle planning, cost forecasting, and risk management
Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager:
- Delivering complex projects or programmes valued at £10–15 million or above
- Managing projects with multiple stakeholders, including joint ventures and matrix organisations
- Working within regulated or high-hazard environments, ideally nuclear or defence
- Leading teams with a clear, self-aware leadership style that drives accountability and performance
- Influencing at senior level with customers and internal decision-makers
Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager:
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in engineering, project management, construction management, or a related discipline
- Membership of a recognised project management body, such as the Association for Project Management
- Chartered Project Professional status or working towards chartership is advantageous
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: 19/05/2026
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