Contract Manager

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Digital GP

Aviva DigiCare+

Employee share scheme

Flexible working

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking a Contract Manager to provide expert commercial and governance support for NEC contracts within a major nuclear infrastructure programme. The role focuses on robust contract administration, risk control, and supplier performance alignment to programme objectives.

Based at Aztec West, near Bristol, the role offers hybrid working patterns and 37 hours per week, with strong development opportunities and comprehensive benefits as part of Cavendish Nuclear, a core part of

Qualifications

• Strong contract and commercial management experience within major infrastructure, engineering or nuclear environments.
• Experience administering NEC contracts, including compensation events.
• Proven quantity surveying capability, including valuation, cost control and change management.
• Experience developing cost forecasts, baselines and managing commitments.
• Confident stakeholder engagement and commercial negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Administering NEC3 contracts from award through delivery to close-out, ensuring full contractual compliance.
• Managing compensation events, including assessment, negotiation and agreement of quotations.
• Developing and maintaining cost baselines and supporting the evaluation of supplier submissions.
• Undertaking detailed cost analysis, reviewing assumptions, quantities, rates and scope alignment.
• Supporting proactive commercial risk management, dispute avoidance and supplier performance assurance.

Skills

Contract & commercial mgmt

NEC contracts

Quantity surveying

Cost forecasting & baselines

Stakeholder negotiation

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Engineering, or equivalent

Job description

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Contract Manager

Location:

Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Contract Manager

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73088

Shape the future of clean energy through complex engineering delivery

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 Contract Manager at Aztec West, near Bristol, South Gloucestershire.

The role

As a Contract Manager, you’ll provide expert commercial and governance support to the delivery of NEC contracts within a major nuclear infrastructure programme. Playing a key role in the delivery phase, you’ll ensure contracts are administered robustly, commercial risk is controlled, and supplier performance remains aligned to programme objectives.

This is an opportunity to work at the heart of one of the UK’s largest and most complex clean energy projects, where your expertise will directly support safe delivery, cost certainty, and long-term value. The experience you gain here will strengthen your commercial leadership capability and position you strongly for progression within major infrastructure and nuclear programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Administering NEC3 contracts from award through delivery to close‑out, ensuring full contractual compliance.
• Managing compensation events, including assessment, negotiation and agreement of quotations.
• Developing and maintaining cost baselines and supporting the evaluation of supplier submissions.
• Undertaking detailed cost analysis, reviewing assumptions, quantities, rates and scope alignment.
• Supporting proactive commercial risk management, dispute avoidance and supplier performance assurance.

The role is 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, and based at Aztec West Business Park, Almondsbury. Hybrid working patterns are available, balancing flexibility with collaboration.

Essential experience of the Contract Manager:

• Strong contract and commercial management experience within major infrastructure, engineering or nuclear environments.
• Demonstrated experience administering NEC contracts, including compensation events.
• Proven quantity surveying capability, including valuation, cost control and change management.
• Experience developing cost forecasts, baselines and managing commitments.
• Confident stakeholder engagement and commercial negotiation skills.

Qualifications for the Contract Manager:

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Membership of RICS or an equivalent professional body (desirable).
• 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.

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 [e-mail] 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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