Contract Manager

Location: Bristol, South Gloucestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the future of clean energy through complex engineering delivery. 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 Contract Manager at Aztec West, near Bristol, South Gloucestershire.

As a major part of the Babcock International Group, Cavendish Nuclear supports some of the UK’s most critical nuclear and clean energy programmes. Our work underpins national energy security and long-term sustainability, offering careers that are technically challenging, professionally rewarding, and genuinely meaningful.

The role:

As a Contract Manager, you’ll provide expert commercial and governance support to the delivery of NEC contracts within a major nuclear infrastructure programme. Playing a key role in the delivery phase, you’ll ensure contracts are administered robustly, commercial risk is controlled, and supplier performance remains aligned to programme objectives.

This is an opportunity to work at the heart of one of the UK’s largest and most complex clean energy projects, where your expertise will directly support safe delivery, cost certainty, and long-term value. The experience you gain here will strengthen your commercial leadership capability and position you strongly for progression within major infrastructure and nuclear programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Administering NEC3 contracts from award through delivery to close‑out, ensuring full contractual compliance.
• Managing compensation events, including assessment, negotiation and agreement of quotations.
• Developing and maintaining cost baselines and supporting the evaluation of supplier submissions.
• Undertaking detailed cost analysis, reviewing assumptions, quantities, rates and scope alignment.
• Supporting proactive commercial risk management, dispute avoidance and supplier performance assurance.

The role is 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, and based at Aztec West Business Park, Almondsbury. Hybrid working patterns are available, balancing flexibility with collaboration.

Essential experience of the Contract Manager:

• Strong contract and commercial management experience within major infrastructure, engineering or nuclear environments.
• Demonstrated experience administering NEC contracts, including compensation events.
• Proven quantity surveying capability, including valuation, cost control and change management.
• Experience developing cost forecasts, baselines and managing commitments.
• Confident stakeholder engagement and commercial negotiation skills.

Qualifications for the Contract Manager:

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Membership of RICS or an equivalent professional body (desirable).

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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.
• ‘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 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: 31/05/2026