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professional certificate
Generous holiday allowance, Matched contribution pension scheme, Life assurance, Digital GP, Annual health check, Nutritional consultations
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~37 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Project Manager will lead complex engineering projects across the full lifecycle, ensuring they are delivered safely, on time, and within budget. Responsibilities include managing project schedules, overseeing financials, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to drive performance.
Requirements
Candidates must have experience in managing project schedules, budgets, and multidisciplinary engineering projects. A recognised project management qualification such as APM is required or the candidate must be willing to work towards it.
Full job description
Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Warrington, Cheshire
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73794
Lead Complex Projects That Shape a Safer, More Sustainable Future
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 take ownership of delivering complex engineering projects across our consultancy portfolio. You’ll work across the full programme lifecycle—from initial planning and mobilisation through to delivery and close-out—ensuring projects are delivered safely on time and within budget.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to critical nuclear and defence programmes, while advancing your own career in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. You’ll be trusted to lead multiple projects, influence key stakeholders, and drive measurable impact on projects that matter nationally.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
Managing multiple engineering projects simultaneously, ensuring delivery against scope, schedule and budget
Developing, maintaining and controlling detailed project schedules and resource plans
Leading project governance, including preparing and presenting reports to senior stakeholders
Overseeing project financials, including budget tracking and earned value management
Supporting meetings and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to drive performance and delivery.
This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week, based at Dalton Avenue, with flexible working arrangements available.
Essential experience of the Project Manager:
Demonstrating experience managing project schedules, including planning and control
Applying resource levelling and resource management techniques across projects
Managing budgets across multiple or complex project portfolios
Using earned value management to monitor and report on project performance
Delivering multidisciplinary engineering or technical projects.
Qualifications for the Project Manager:
Relevant experience in project management or engineering environments
A recognised Project Management qualification (such as APM or equivalent) or willingness to work towards certification
Experience within a consultancy or regulated environment is advantageous
Familiarity with NEC contracts and project controls tools (such as Primavera P6) is 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.
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 [email protected] 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: 14/08/2026
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Babcock is a FTSE 100 defence company, creating a safe and secure world, together.
Industry
Defense and Space Manufacturing
Company size
10,001+ employees
Headquarters
London
LinkedIn followers
288,058
Babcock is a FTSE 100 defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets.
Our Purpose, to create a safe and secure world, together, defines our strategy. We support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets through a range of product and service solutions. We meet our customers’ requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.
These projects take all different kinds of professionals, from chartered engineers and project managers, to naval architects, data analysts and everything in between. To bring through the next generation of engineering and business experts, we offer apprenticeships and roles for students, graduates and fully-qualified professionals.
There’s never been a better time to join us. Whether you’re looking for a new business management project or engineering role, join Babcock and grow with us.
Babcock is a Disability Confident, Committed Employer
Offices: 33 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 1QX, GB
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Babcock is a FTSE 100 defence company, creating a safe and secure world, together.
Industry
Defense and Space Manufacturing
Company size
10,001+ employees
Headquarters
London
LinkedIn followers
288,058
Babcock is a FTSE 100 defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets.
Our Purpose, to create a safe and secure world, together, defines our strategy. We support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets through a range of product and service solutions. We meet our customers’ requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.
These projects take all different kinds of professionals, from chartered engineers and project managers, to naval architects, data analysts and everything in between. To bring through the next generation of engineering and business experts, we offer apprenticeships and roles for students, graduates and fully-qualified professionals.
There’s never been a better time to join us. Whether you’re looking for a new business management project or engineering role, join Babcock and grow with us.
Babcock is a Disability Confident, Committed Employer
Offices: 33 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 1QX, GB
Support ServicesEngineeringProject Managementand Asset ManagementElectronicsBusiness DevelopmentInfrastructureAugmented RealityAsset ManagementMarine Technology