Project Manager

Cavendish Nuclear; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension & life assurance

Digital GP access

Employee share scheme

Be Kind Day

Holiday trading

Flexible working

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is recruiting a Project Manager for our Glasgow site to lead a high-value defence infrastructure programme. The role covers the full lifecycle, with focus on scope, cost, schedule and quality objectives while coordinating with customers, partners and internal teams.

The successful candidate will manage multi-stakeholder environments, apply standard project management methodologies, and communicate progress to senior leadership. Security clearance is required for the role.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated project management experience across full lifecycle.
• Experience delivering civil infrastructure or major engineering projects.
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders within complex environments.
• Knowledge of recognised project management methodologies and best practice.

Responsibilities

• Managing project delivery across the full project lifecycle, ensuring scope, cost, schedule and quality objectives are achieved.
• Collaborating with customers, joint venture partners and stakeholders to maintain strong working relationships and project alignment.
• Leading and supporting project teams, including providing direction to junior project professionals.
• Monitoring project performance, risks and opportunities, implementing mitigation strategies.
• Producing project reports and presenting progress updates to senior leadership and key stakeholders.

Skills

Communication skills

Planning

Organisational skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in Project Management

Engineering degree

Construction Management degree

Job description

Location: Glasgow

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

74218

Lead the delivery of a nationally important defence infrastructure project and build a career with long-term impact 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 Project Manager at our Glasgow site.

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Glasgow

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF 74218

The role

As a Project Manager, you'll play a key role in delivering a high-value, long-term defence infrastructure programme that supports national security.

Day-to-day, You’ll Be Required To

• Managing project delivery across the full project lifecycle, ensuring scope, cost, schedule and quality objectives are achieved
• Collaborating with customers, joint venture partners and stakeholders to maintain strong working relationships and project alignment
• Leading and supporting project teams, including providing direction to junior project professionals
• Monitoring project performance, risks and opportunities, implementing effective mitigation strategies where required
• Producing project reports and presenting progress updates to senior leadership and key stakeholders

This is a full-time, permanent role working 37 hours per week based at our Glasgow site.

Essential Experience Of The Project Manager

• Demonstrable experience working as a Project Manager with full project lifecycle responsibility
• Experience delivering civil infrastructure or major engineering projects
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders within complex project environments
• Experience applying recognised project management methodologies and best practice
• Strong communication, planning and organisational skills

Qualifications For The Project Manager

• Degree qualification in Project Management, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrable experience

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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. 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: 04/09/2026

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