Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Location: Leicester, Leicestershire
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. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Whetstone, near Leicester, Leicestershire.
The role
As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll be a key influencer in driving a “right first time” culture across our operations. You’ll lead quality initiatives, ensure compliance with rigorous standards, and make a tangible impact on projects that support national energy security. This is a hands-on role where your expertise will shape processes, improve performance, and contribute to a safer, more sustainable future. It’s an opportunity to grow your career in a highly regulated environment while working on projects that matter.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
1. Act as a credible leader of quality, promoting a “right first time” approach
2. Implement and manage site-specific quality arrangements
3. Collaborate with the wider quality team to optimise resource deployment
4. Prepare and analyse quality performance data, recommending improvements
5. Review and approve supplier quality arrangements, including manufacturing documentation
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Whetstone, Leicestershire. You may be required to occasionally travel around the Uk.
Essential experience of the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
6. Background in a highly regulated industry, ideally nuclear
7. HNC or equivalent relevant experience
8. Strong working knowledge of ISO (ISO and advantageous)
Qualifications for the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
9. HNC or equivalent experience required
10. Auditor training desirable
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
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 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
20. 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