Senior Project Manager
Location: Warrington, GB; Reading, GB; Bristol, GB; Leicester, GB. Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid.
Lead Complex Projects That Power National Security
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 any of our key locations including Warrington (Cheshire), Bristol, Newbury (Berkshire) or Leicester (Leicestershire).
The role
As a Senior Project Manager, you will take a leading role in the successful delivery of complex, high‑value infrastructure projects that are critical to both nuclear defence and civil decommissioning and fuels programmes. You’ll be responsible for ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards.
This is a full‑time position working 37 hours per week. We offer flexible hybrid working patterns, with typically 2–3 days per week onsite, alongside occasional travel to other UK locations as required.
Responsibilities
- Lead governance arrangements, establishing clear roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities across the full project lifecycle.
- Drive project performance through robust financial planning, cost control, and the effective application of Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques.
- Champion continuous improvement by engaging project teams and adopting innovative tools, practices, and technologies.
- Ensure the highest standards of health, safety, security, environmental, and quality (HSSEQ) compliance across all project activities.
- Manage and inspire multidisciplinary teams spanning engineering, procurement, and commercial functions to achieve project objectives.
Qualifications
- Proven experience delivering major infrastructure projects with values exceeding £50 million.
- A strong track record of managing full Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) project lifecycles, from concept and design through to construction and commissioning.
- Demonstrated leadership of large, multidisciplinary teams (typically 50+ people) within complex and highly regulated environments.
- Practical expertise in applying Earned Value Management to enhance project control, reporting, and decision‑making.
- Experience gained within regulated industries such as nuclear, defence, utilities, petrochemical, or aerospace sectors.
- Project Management certification or accreditation (such as Association for Project Management or Project Management Institute) is advantageous.
Benefits
- 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 allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ gives one paid working day a year to undertake volunteering work.
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
We’re Cavendish Nuclear – a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection.
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.
