Test Manager

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Location: Taunton, GB, TA5 1UD GB

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Test Manager

Location: Flexible UK

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72863

At Cavendish Nuclear we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Test Manager.

This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance works 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 Test Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Being part of the MEH Alliance working on Hinkley Point C is a chance to be involved in a major project with national significance. You play a vital role in ensuring high quality, safe and reliable digital and technology solutions that support one of the UK's largest clean energy infrastructure programmes.

This role offers 37 hours per week, remote working is available with travel to site expected in line with business requirements at Hinkley Point C. Set working times are 08:00-16:30 Monday to Thursday and 08:00-13:00 on Fridays.

• Leading the planning, preparation and execution of end to end testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Shaping, refining and managing business requirements through workshops and stakeholder engagement.
• Coordinating with delivery partners to align solution design, quality standards and programme governance.
• Tracking defects, securing test sign off and ensuring solutions meet safety, regulatory and operational requirements.
• Championing Nuclear Safety Culture, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and continuous improvement across the programme.

• Experience developing business cases for large and complex business change programmes.
• Strong analytical skills supported by financial and numerical modelling capabilities.
• Proven ability to take a strategic and hands on approach across full lifecycle digital transformation.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders in regulated or safety critical environments.
• Background in integrating people, processes and systems across large organisations.

• Proven experience delivering business analysis for large-scale Digital and IT change.
• Strong background in end to end process analysis, modelling and requirements management.
• Demonstrable experience leading testing activities, including planning and defect management.
• Hands on experience managing and coordinating User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience applying governance and quality assurance in safety critical or regulated environments.
• 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.

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 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.

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