Payroll Coordinator

Cavendish Nuclear; Taunton; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension & life assurance

Digital GP & health checks

Employee share scheme

10 days special paid leave for Reservs

Be Kind Day

Development opportunities

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking a Payroll Coordinator for the Hinkley Point C site near Bridgwater, Somerset. This full-time role focuses on accurate payroll processing and comprehensive administrative support within a busy MEH alliance environment.

You will handle payroll data, maintain records, and support payroll-related inductions while ensuring an excellent employee experience. The role combines on-site work with occasional home working for Fridays.

Qualifications

• Experience in fast-paced administrative environment.
• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience managing and maintaining accurate records and documentation.
• Confidence using Microsoft Office applications, particularly spreadsheets and reporting tools.
• Experience within payroll administration or payroll support would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining and updating payroll trackers, ensuring employee information is accurate and up to date.
• Collecting, logging and distributing payroll forms, including holiday, absence, lodge and pay query documentation.
• Producing payroll reports and supporting the creation of payroll metrics and management information.
• Assisting with payroll-related inductions and providing administrative support including document management, spreadsheets and meeting notes.
• Responding to payroll queries and supporting the wider payroll team to deliver an excellent employee experience.

Skills

Administrative experience

Organisational skills

Record keeping

MS Office / Excel

Payroll experience

Job description

Job Title: Payroll Coordinator

Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full Time / Permanent

Keep people paid accurately. Help deliver one of the UK’s most important infrastructure programmes. 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 Payroll Coordinator at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset.

Job Title: Payroll Coordinator

Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full Time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

76063

Keep people paid accurately. Help deliver one of the UK’s most important infrastructure programmes. 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 Payroll Coordinator at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset.

The role

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.

Day-to-day, You'll Be Required To

• Maintaining and updating payroll trackers, ensuring employee information is accurate and up to date.
• Collecting, logging and distributing payroll forms, including holiday, absence, lodge and pay query documentation.
• Producing payroll reports and supporting the creation of payroll metrics and management information.
• Assisting with payroll-related inductions and providing administrative support including document management, spreadsheets and meeting notes.
• Responding to payroll queries and supporting the wider payroll team to deliver an excellent employee experience.

This role is based at Hinkley Point C. You will work 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with a rotational later shift approximately once every eight weeks. The role is primarily site-based, with home working on Fridays.

Essential Experience Of The Payroll Coordinator

• Experience working in a fast-paced administrative environment.
• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience managing and maintaining accurate records and documentation.
• Confidence using Microsoft Office applications, particularly spreadsheets and reporting tools.
• Experience within payroll administration or payroll support would be advantageous

Qualifications For The Payroll Coordinator

• We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education. If you can demonstrate the required experience, capability and willingness to learn, we'd love to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national and 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:

28/10/2026 #CAVDESTNUC