Senior Risk Manager

Job Title:                     Senior Risk Manager

Location:                     Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation:            Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF73806

Shape The Future Of Complex Projects In Nuclear And Clean Energy

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 Senior Risk Manager at one of our key locations in Leicester (Leicestershire), Bristol or Warrington (Cheshire).

The role

As a Senior Risk Manager, you will play a pivotal role in enabling the successful delivery of high-impact projects across nuclear services, clean energy, and international programmes. You will lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of risk and opportunity management practices, ensuring robust decision-making across the full project lifecycle.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Developing and implementing project risk and opportunity management plans aligned with business and commercial requirements


• Analysing risks and producing insightful performance reports with clear recommendations to stakeholders


• Building and assuring quantitative risk models covering cost, schedule, and uncertainty analysis


• Managing contingency and ensuring risks are aligned with financial and commercial objectives


• Delivering training and guidance to project teams to embed best practice in risk management

Essential experience of the Senior Risk Manager:

• Demonstrating experience in risk management within a highly regulated industry such as nuclear, defence, or infrastructure


• Applying advanced risk modelling techniques, including quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis


• Building and developing robust risk models to support project delivery


• Working in specialist risk or opportunity management roles across the project lifecycle


• Understanding contracting methodologies such as FIDIC, NEC3/NEC4 or JCT

Qualifications for the Senior Risk Manager:

• A relevant qualification in risk management or project management (desirable)


• Professional certifications in planning or project controls (advantageous)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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:   19/06/2026

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