Job Title: Senior Cost Engineer
Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the Future of Clean Energy and Defence
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 Senior Cost Engineer at our Warrington, Cheshire site.
The role
As a Senior Cost Engineer, you’ll have a role that is out of the ordinary. You’ll provide vital cost engineering support across high-profile projects that underpin national energy security and defence. This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact while advancing your career in a dynamic environment.
Day-to-day, you will
1. Provide cost engineering support for complex projects
2. Manage project controls and earned value processes
3. Handle resourcing applications for payments
4. Support subcontract management activities
5. Collaborate with commercial, procurement, planning, and engineering teams
This is a permanent position, working 37 hours per week, based in Warrington, Cheshire. Hybrid working patterns are available, with a minimum of three days in the office per week.
Essential experience of the Senior Cost Engineer:
6. Strong IT proficiency, including Excel and SAP
7. Proven experience in cost engineering
8. Awareness of P6 or Risk Hive
9. Experience with systems and cost capture
10. Risk awareness and planning capability
Qualifications for the Senior Cost Engineer:
11. We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (
What we offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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.
20. ‘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
21. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of