Project Manager

Cavendish Nuclear; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP access

Employee share scheme

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is hiring a Project Manager in Warrington with hybrid working. You will lead national priority programmes across the nuclear sector, delivering projects on time, within budget and to quality standards.

The role is permanent, full-time (37 hours) at Dalton Avenue, Warrington. The successful candidate will manage work packages, coordinate teams and stakeholders, and report on performance and risks.

Qualifications

• > Experience delivering complex projects or programmes.
• > Experience working with NEC4 contracts.
• > Experience coordinating multidisciplinary delivery teams, suppliers and stakeholders.
• > Experience integrating project activities into wider programme delivery plans.
• > Experience monitoring project costs, schedules, risks and deliverables.

Responsibilities

• > Managing project work packages to ensure delivery against scope, schedule, cost and quality requirements.
• > Coordinating delivery teams, suppliers and stakeholders to achieve successful project outcomes.
• > Monitoring project performance, risks, costs and deliverables against established plans.
• > Building positive customer relationships and supporting effective stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
• > Supporting the delivery of engineering and supplier-led work packages under the guidance of senior project leadership

Skills

Project management

NEC4 contracts

Stakeholder coordination

Cost & schedule monitoring

Team collaboration

Education

Project Management qualification or equivalent

Tools

NEC4 contracts

Job description

Job Title: Project Manager

+ Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74420

Lead Projects That Help Create a Safe and Secure World

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 Dalton Avenue, near Warrington, Cheshire.

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Warrington, Cheshire

+ Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74420

Lead Projects That Help Create a Safe and Secure World

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 Dalton Avenue, near Warrington, Cheshire.

The role

As a Project Manager, you’ll play a vital role in delivering programmes of national importance across the nuclear sector.

This is a permanent role working 37 hours per week based at Dalton Avenue. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Day-to-day, You’ll Be Required To

• Managing project work packages to ensure delivery against agreed scope, schedule, cost and quality requirements.
• Coordinating delivery teams, suppliers and stakeholders to achieve successful project outcomes.
• Monitoring project performance, risks, costs and deliverables against established plans.
• Building positive customer relationships and supporting effective stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
• Supporting the delivery of engineering and supplier-led work packages under the guidance of senior project leadership

Essential Experience Of The Project Manager

• Experience working in a project management environment, delivering complex projects or programmes.
• Experience working with NEC4 contracts.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary delivery teams, suppliers and stakeholders.
• Experience integrating project activities into wider programme delivery plans.
• Experience monitoring project costs, schedules, risks and deliverables.

Qualifications For The Project Manager

• Project Management qualification or equivalent professional experience.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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. 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: 23/09/2026

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