Job Title: Mechanical Engineer
Location: Warrington, Preston or Leicester + Hybrid Working
Compensation: Competitive + benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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 Mechanical Engineer at either of our Warrington, Leicester or Preston sites.
The role
As a Mechanical Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role sits within our Cavendish Nuclear business, from decommissioning redundant nuclear facilities, through supporting the Continuous at Sea Deterrent, to supporting the operation and build of nuclear power plants, our role in Cavendish Nuclear is to clean up the nuclear legacy and create a world where nuclear plays a key contribution in protecting our nation, ensuring security of energy supply and meeting our net zero commitments.
Our highly skilled team tackles major defence, decommissioning, new build and nuclear generation projects and has won over 78% of its latest tenders. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. We’re also bringing the UK closer to Net Zero, through our work with Hinkley C, Sizewell C and X Energy.
Duties include:
1. Promote effective co-operation across Engineering and other functional teams
2. Assist in effective management of the customer, through interfacing with customers and supply chain on design issues and assist with procurement specifications
3. Ensure procedures, codes and standards are correctly identified and applied to engineering and technical activities.
4. Contribute to Product Safety Assessment process
5. Provide a technical interface with internal and external stakeholders at a detailed level
6. Carry out technical investigations and analysis to provide data for problem assessment/resolution and for design of improvements
7. Contribute to process improvement within the operational and/or design lifecycle to deliver continuous improvements in quality, cycle time and asset utilisation
8. Apply engineering domain knowledge to produce technical solutions and documentation in support of assigned task and project
Essential experience of the Mechanical Engineer
9. Nuclear experience is not a necessity, we welcome applications from all engineering backgrounds.
10. You are someone who owns and delivers, who champions high performance and is courageous to challenge the status quo.
11. Knowledge of CAD tools and General Engineering Drawing Practice.
12. Ability to build strong and influential relationships with key stakeholders
Qualifications for the Mechanical Engineer
13. Minimum HNC/HND in Engineering, or equivalent experience.
The successful candidate must hold, or be able to achieve SC security clearance level for this role.
Our Benefits
14. Generous holiday allowance
15. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
16. Employee share scheme
17. Employee shopping savings portal
18. Payment of Professional Fees
19. Reservists in the armed forces receive special paid leave
20. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
21. ‘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
Cavendish Nuclear
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