Overview
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70704
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 Construction Project Manager at our Bristol site.
The role
As a Construction Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You lead the safe and effective delivery of construction activities on site, driving performance, managing risk, and ensuring that critical milestones are achieved during the construction phase over the next 2–3 years.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
* Lead the safe and efficient management of construction activities on site.
* Deliver key project milestones, ensuring compliance with cost, schedule, quality, and safety expectations.
* Work closely with the Construction Manager, design teams, and other delivery partners to resolve issues and maintain progress.
* Oversee complex installation work within legacy structures, ensuring meticulous planning and control.
* Act as the accountable point of contact for all construction deliverables within your allocated scope.
This role is based in Stoke Gifford, Bristol, working 38 hours per week (with the potential to increase to 44 hours). Travel to Bridgewater, Somerset and occasional visits to Warrington, Cheshire will be expected.
Essential experience
* Demonstrated experience in construction project management, ideally within complex or highly regulated environments.
* Proven background in delivering construction phases of large-scale projects.
* Strong understanding of safety, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.
* Experience liaising with engineering and design teams.
* Nuclear construction experience is desirable.
Qualifications
* IOSH Managing Safely (or equivalent).
* APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or equivalent.
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 March annually.
* Be Kind Day enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year 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.
About Cavendish Nuclear
We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of about 5,000 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 and building meaningful careers that respect 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: 22/04/2026
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