Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Rosyth, Scotland + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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 Rosyth, nearDunfermline, Fife.
The role
As a Project Manager, you’ll be at the heart of one of the UK’s most critical engineering programmes, helping to deliver complex nuclear projects that shape national security and clean energy. This is a unique opportunity to lead high-impact work from design through to commissioning, while developing your career in a dynamic, future-focused environment.
You’ll be based at our Rosyth site for 3 days per week, with hybrid working patterns available. This is a full-time, permanent position, working 37 hours per week.
Supporting the Senior Project Manager, day-to-day, you’ll
1. Drive Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Quality across the project.
2. Manage customer relationships and project risks, identifying and implementing effective responses.
3. Establish and maintain governance structures, defining clear roles and responsibilities within your area of responsibility.
4. Drive performance through employee engagement, continuous improvement, and innovation to deliver the schedule.
5. Oversee project planning and financial monitoring, reporting progress and corrective actions for your scope of work.
Essential experience of the Project Manager:
6. Proven experience in nuclear project management.
7. Familiarity with NEC4 contracts and project planning tools (e.g., Primavera P6).
8. Background in managing design projects, ideally within submarines or dockyard environments.
9. Strong stakeholder management and supplier interface experience.
10. Ability to lead cross-functional teams across multiple locations.
Qualifications for the Project Manager:
11. Degree or equivalent in engineering, project management, or a related discipline.
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
What we offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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.
20. ‘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
21. 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