Lifting Construction Manager

Babcock International; Taunton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Volunteer & wellbeing programmes

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking a Lifting Construction Manager to lead rigging and lifting operations on the Hinkley Point C project in Bridgwater, Somerset. The role requires senior leadership of large teams, planning foresight, and a strong nuclear safety culture to ensure safe delivery across a complex multi-building site.

You will work within MEH Alliance, coordinating with MEH, cabling and support services, driving productivity, and embedding robust planning and performance management across

Qualifications

• Holding significant experience leading lifting and rigging operations on major construction projects.
• Demonstrating senior leadership capability managing large teams in high pressure environments.
• Operating within highly regulated or high hazard industries such as nuclear, defence or infrastructure.
• Managing workforce performance, productivity frameworks and delivery targets.
• Collaborating effectively with multiple stakeholders across complex project environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead rigging and lifting teams through superintendents, driving performance and accountability.
• Drive productivity, attendance, and working standards across the workforce.
• Own forward planning, including 16-week lookahead schedules for lifting activities.
• Forecast labour requirements and align resources to programme delivery.
• Promote a strong nuclear safety culture through leadership, inspections, and compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Rigging & lifting

Team management

Planning & scheduling

Safety culture

Education

CPCS Blue Card

ECITB Appointed Person TAP01

NVQ Level 3 in Steel Erecting or Moving Loads

IOSH/SMSTS/SSSTS

Tools

ECITB Appointed Person

Job description

Job Title: Lifting Construction Manager

Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74321

Lead High-Impact Lifting Operations On One Of The UK's Most Complex Nuclear Construction Projects

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 Lifting Construction Manager at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset.

This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance work across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main Mechanical, Electrical, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (MEH), cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station's vast network of rooms.

The role

As a Lifting Construction Manager, you will take ownership of all rigging and lifting operations across a major nuclear new build programme. This is a senior leadership position where your expertise will directly influence safety, productivity, and delivery across a complex, multi building construction environment.

This is a full-time role, working 37 hours per week and based at our Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset site.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Leading rigging and lifting teams through superintendents, driving performance and accountability
• Driving productivity, attendance, and working standards across the workforce
• Owning forward planning, including 16-week lookahead schedules for lifting activities
• Forecasting labour requirements and aligning resources to programme delivery
• Promoting a strong nuclear safety culture through leadership, inspections, and compliance

Essential experience of the Lifting Construction Manager:

• Holding significant experience leading lifting and rigging operations on major construction projects
• Demonstrating senior leadership capability managing large teams in high pressure environments
• Operating within highly regulated or high hazard industries such as nuclear, defence or infrastructure
• Managing workforce performance, productivity frameworks and delivery targets
• Collaborating effectively with multiple stakeholders across complex project environments

Qualifications for the Lifting Construction Manager:

• CPCS Blue Card and ECITB Appointed Person certification (TAP01) - essential
• NVQ Level 3 in Steel Erecting or Moving Loads - desirable
• IOSH, SMSTS or SSSTS safety qualifications - desirable

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 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 [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.

Closing date: 02/10/2026

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