Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location: Warrington, Cheshire or Preston, Lancashire, with Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72962
Lead Design. Shape National Capability. Build a Future that Matters.
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 an Engineering Manager, at our Warrington, Cheshire or Preston, Lancashire sites.
The role
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead and inspire multi‑disciplinary engineering teams on one of the UK’s most strategically important nuclear infrastructure programmes. Supporting the design and delivery of a new facility that will underpin the UK’s nuclear fuel cycle, this role puts you at the heart of complex, high‑value engineering from concept through to Engineering, Procurement and Construction.
Day‑to‑day, you’ll be required to:
* Lead multi‑disciplinary engineering teams to deliver safe, high‑quality design solutions
* Provide technical governance and assurance as Design or Technical Authority
* Integrate engineering work packages across process, mechanical, electrical and civil disciplines
* Ensure compliance with nuclear safety, quality and regulatory requirements
* Support planning, estimating and risk management across the engineering lifecycle
This is a full‑time role working 37 hours per week, based at Warrington, Cheshire or Preston, Lancashire. Hybrid working patterns are available.
Essential experience of the Engineering Manager:
* Proven experience leading engineering teams within major complex projects
* Strong understanding of full project lifecycles from concept design to delivery
* Experience managing multi‑disciplinary technical interfaces
* Ability to act as a technical authority within a regulated environment
Qualifications for the Engineering Manager:
* Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline
* Chartered Engineer status, or demonstrable experience working towards chartership, is desirable
What we offer
* 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 FeesReservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
* 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.
* ‘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 organization or registered charity
* Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work‑life balance.
Join us and discover how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@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.
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