Job Title: Engineering Design Manager
Location: Warrington, Cheshire or Preston, Lancashire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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 Design Manager, at our Warrington, Cheshire or Preston, Lancashire sites.
The role
As an Engineering Design 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:
1. Lead multi‑disciplinary engineering teams to deliver safe, high‑quality design solutions
2. Provide technical governance and assurance as Design or Technical Authority
3. Integrate engineering work packages across process, mechanical, electrical and civil disciplines
4. Ensure compliance with nuclear safety, quality and regulatory requirements
5. 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 Design Manager:
6. Proven experience leading engineering teams within major complex projects
7. Strong understanding of full project lifecycles from concept design to delivery
8. Experience managing multi‑disciplinary technical interfaces
9. Ability to act as a technical authority within a regulated environment.
Qualifications for the Engineering Design Manager:
10. Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline
11. Chartered Engineer status, or demonstrable experience working towards chartership, is desirable
What we offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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.
20. ‘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
21. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
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