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Our summary
- Work mode
- On-site, Glasgow
- Contract
- Full-time
- Closing date
- Apply by Tuesday 24 November



Skills
Babcock International is hiring for this role in several places. This vacancy is in Glasgow.
Requirements
Education & certifications
- Degree qualification in Project Management, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrable experience
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
- 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.
The role
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.
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
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)
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 24/11/2026
Hiring process
1 interview
- If you will work on Ministry of Defence sites you also have to meet MoD security requirements.
About Babcock International
- Industry
- Engineering
- Founded
- 1891
- Employees
- 30,000–40,000
- Headquarters
- London, UK
In their own words
About the company & team
Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Glasgow
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 74218
Location
Babcock International · G2 1BT
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