Assistant Project Manager

Job Title:                     Assistant Project Manager

Location:                     Glasgow, Lanarkshire

Compensation:            Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent 

Role ID:                       SF76224

Help deliver projects that support the UK's 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 an Assistant Project Manager at Atlantic Square, near Glasgow, Lanarkshire.

The role

As an Assistant Project Manager, you'll support the successful delivery of complex projects throughout the design phase, ensuring programmes are delivered safely, on time, within budget and to the highest quality standards.

You will work 37 hours per week based at Atlantic Square, Glasgow. Hybrid working patterns are available with a minimum onsite presence of three days per week.

Day-to-day, you’ll

• Supporting Project Managers with the day-to-day delivery and administration of large-scale infrastructure projects.


• Coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, clients, commercial specialists, cost managers and project planners to achieve project objectives.


• Managing smaller work packages and elements of project scope to support overall programme delivery.


• Monitoring project progress, reporting on performance, and helping ensure deliverables are completed on time and within budget.


• Building effective relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the project environment.

Essential experience of Assistant Project Manager:

• Experience working within a highly regulated industry.


• Knowledge of security classifications and controlled project documentation.


• Strong presentation skills with the ability to provide updates and overviews to internal and external stakeholders.


• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.


• Experience working with NEC contracts would be advantageous.

Qualifications for the Assistant Project Manager:

• Demonstrable project management knowledge and capability gained through education, training, or professional 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. 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:   13/11/2026

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