Job Title: Senior Mechanical Designer
Location: Warrington, Bristol, Newbury OR Leicester + Hybrid Working
Compensation: Competitive Salary + 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 Senior Mechanical Designer at our Warrington, Cheshire site.
The role
As a Senior Mechanical Designer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll provide point of contact with professional engineering colleagues and various stakeholders for discipline related issues during design lifecycle, contribute to design reviews and ensure coordination and functionality of design.
Day-to-day, you’ll allocate discipline tasks to allocated team of Designers, check team drawing outputs, and ensure inter discipline coordination in accordance with company and regulatory standards.
1. Promote effective co-operation across Design and other functional teams.
2. Assist in effective management of the customer, including liaison and relationship development with existing and new customers, to aid the development of business, resolution of technical and delivery issues, and such that the customer is fully briefed and informed of progress.
3. Advise and assist in selecting the correct methods and tools for tasks and provide technical assistance to allocated team of Designers.
4. Contribute to the preparation/production of drawings in support of basic, detail and production design in line with recognised ISO standards and to the required, time, cost and quality requirements.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based in either of our Warrington, Bristol, Leicester or Newbury sites.
Essential experience of the Senior Mechanical Designer
5. Nuclear experience is not a requirement, we welcome applications from all engineering backgrounds.
6. Experience in a detailed design environment.
7. Good knowledge of CAD tools.
8. Knowledge of General Engineering Drawing Practice.
9. Demonstrable experience in technical leading of a multi-disciplined design team.
Qualifications for the Senior Mechanical Designer
10. HNC/HND minimum in a relevant discipline OR equivalent academic qualification
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at
What we offer
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish Nuclear 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
19. ‘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
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of