Engineering Manager – Modular Reactor
Job Location: Flexible UK (Warrington, Manchester, Bristol)
Compensation: Attractive salary + benefits
Job type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70872
Responsibilities
- Lead multi‑discipline engineering planning, integration and delivery to time, cost and quality.
- Set technical direction, manage interfaces and assure design, safety and regulatory compliance.
- Collaborate with reactor vendors, supply chain and internal stakeholders to solve complex problems.
- Manage risks, change control and configuration to maintain scope, schedule and quality baselines.
- Coach engineers and cultivate a high‑performance, inclusive team culture.
Essential Experience
- Direct experience in small modular, advanced modular or modular reactor development (SMR/ AMR)
- Senior‑level engineering/technical leadership within complex projects.
- Background with reactor vendors or nuclear engineering organisations.
- Strong understanding of nuclear technologies, decommissioning or fuel‑cycle engineering.
- Demonstrable experience of the UK regulatory licensing process and working within the UK regulatory regime.
Qualifications & Benefits
- Engineering degree (or equivalent qualification) in a relevant engineering discipline, with significant demonstrable experience.
- 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 benefit: UK Cavendish employees can buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave from their entitlement. This window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’: employees can take one working day’s paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with a chosen organisation or registered charity.
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package, including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Equal Opportunity
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please emailcareers@babcockinternational.com 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.
