As a Mechanical Quality Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll take a leading role in assuring the quality, safety, and regulatory compliance of one of the UK's largest and most complex nuclear new-build projects. This is a rare opportunity to influence an engineering programme of national importance-supporting the delivery of clean-energy infrastructure while enhancing your career in defence, aerospace, and engineering. Day-to-day, you'll be required to:
* Manage and assure mechanical documentation, inspection records, and handover readiness.
* Drive quality performance by tracking compliance, identifying trends, and escalating risks.
* Raise, monitor, and close nonconformance reports, ensuring timely and effective resolution.
* Conduct surveillance checks, ensuring regulatory expectations and nuclear safety standards are met.
* Provide expert guidance to project teams, acting as the lead quality authority for your discipline.
This is a full-time position, working 37 hours per week, based on site at Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset.
Essential Experience of the Mechanical Quality Manager
* Recognised auditor qualification and proven experience delivering quality assurance.
* Engineering or quality-related background aligned to mechanical discipline.
* Strong experience working on major engineering or infrastructure projects.
* Demonstrated leadership capability within a project or team setting.
* Experience promoting a strong quality culture, with exposure to completions, records assurance, or nuclear/alliance environments.
Qualifications for the Mechanical Quality Manager
* Recognised auditor qualification.
* Engineering or quality-related qualifications supporting discipline specialism.
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 (www.gov.uk).
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 Quality Manager, at our Bridgwater, Somerset site.
What we offer
* Generous holiday allowance
* 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 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 organisation or registered charity
* Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Cavendish 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.
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