Cost Specialist in Bristol

Shape the financial heartbeat of critical national projects. 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 Cost Specialist at Warrington, Cheshire or Bristol.

The role

As a Cost Specialist, you play a vital role in ensuring complex engineering and defence projects are delivered responsibly, predictably and sustainably. Your work underpins confident decision-making, supports project managers, and helps safeguard national infrastructure and energy security. You will work 37 hours per week, with flexibility available across a five-day working week, and the role is based across Warrington, Cheshire or Bristol, attending site three days per week.

Day-to-day responsibilities:

• Managing budgets and forecasts for allocated project and programme work packages.
• Assessing the accuracy, completeness and substantiation of supplier and subcontractor invoices.
• Highlighting cost movements, risks and key variances with clear, evidence-based insights.
• Supporting project managers with resource demand planning and cost performance reporting.
• Using cost and financial systems to maintain robust, auditable cost control information.

Essential experience:

• Proven experience in budgeting and cost forecasting within a project or programme environment.
• Hands-on experience working with cost control, project controls or accounting disciplines.
• Strong capability using financial and cost management systems, such as SAP, Quadrant and Microsoft Excel.
• Experience supporting project managers or delivery teams with financial insight and reporting.

Qualifications:

• DHNC (or equivalent) in cost engineering, quantity surveying, finance or accounting.

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.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading allows buying additional leave or selling up to one week of annual leave.
• Be Kind Day enables one paid day per year for volunteering.
• Development opportunities and wellbeing benefits including an employee assistance programme.

About Cavendish Nuclear:

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. We’re shaping a future that lasts, with meaningful careers and work-life balance. 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.