Project Manager (Nuclear Decommissioning)

Location: Dungeness, United Kingdom; on-site work at a nuclear licensed site

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end delivery of major nuclear decommissioning and demolition work packages.
• Manage subcontractors and specialist demolition contractors, ensuring safe systems of work and quality outputs.
• Oversee building deplanting, radiological waste treatment and disposal, demolition, asbestos surveying, strip-out, and disposal.
• Coordinate engineering, construction, radiological protection, commercial, planning, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Manage programme, cost, change, risk, reporting, project records, and NEC4 requirements including early warnings and compensation events.
• Lead QESH performance, project management planning, RAMS, temporary works coordination, safety leadership, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• MIDE or CCDO qualification
• 10+ years of experience in major construction or infrastructure projects.
• Experience delivering demolition or deconstruction projects, preferably in nuclear decommissioning.
• Strong working knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 contracts, project risk, commercial management, and sequencing.
• Experience working on nuclear licensed sites with knowledge of nuclear licensing, safety cases, regulatory frameworks, radioactive waste, decontamination, and asbestos requirements.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, including the ability to manage contractors and influence senior stakeholders and regulators.

Nice to have

• Degree, HNC/HND qualification, or relevant apprenticeship-level training.
• Experience managing major subcontract and direct works packages.

Culture & Benefits

• 25 days of holiday with the option to purchase additional days.
• Pension and private medical insurance.
• Health and wellbeing programme and employee benefits portal.
• Cycle-to-work scheme, free parking, and on-site parking.
• Referral scheme and opportunities for career progression.