Lifting Construction Manager

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Taunton, GB, TA5 1UD

Onsite or Hybrid:
On Site

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 Lifting Construction Manager at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset.

This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance work across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main Mechanical, Electrical, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (MEH), cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station’s vast network of rooms.

As a Lifting Construction Manager, you will take ownership of all rigging and lifting operations across a major nuclear new build programme. This is a senior leadership position where your expertise will directly influence safety, productivity, and delivery across a complex, multi‑building construction environment.

This is a full-time role, working 37 hours per week and based at our Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset site.

• Leading rigging and lifting teams through superintendents, driving performance and accountability
• Driving productivity, attendance, and working standards across the workforce
• Owning forward planning, including 16‑week lookahead schedules for lifting activities
• Forecasting labour requirements and aligning resources to programme delivery
• Promoting a strong nuclear safety culture through leadership, inspections, and compliance

• Holding significant experience leading lifting and rigging operations on major construction projects
• Demonstrating senior leadership capability managing large teams in high‑pressure environments
• Operating within highly regulated or high‑hazard industries such as nuclear, defence or infrastructure
• Managing workforce performance, productivity frameworks and delivery targets
• Collaborating effectively with multiple stakeholders across complex project environments

• CPCS Blue Card and ECITB Appointed Person certification (TAP
  01) – essential
• NVQ Level 3 in Steel Erecting or Moving Loads – desirable
• IOSH, SMSTS or SSSTS safety qualifications – desirable
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• 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.

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…