Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager
Location: Glasgow + Hybrid Working
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Car Allowance, 20% Bonus, Private Medical Insurance
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 Engineering Manager, at our Glasgow site. As a key partner in the prestigious Nuclear Technical Support Provider (NTSP) framework—valued between £ million and £ million—Cavendish is delivering critical upgrades to the Royal Navy’s infrastructure at HMNB Clyde .
This is a rare opportunity to lead high-impact projects within a collaborative alliance, shaping the future of national defence capabilities. With a legacy of excellence in nuclear engineering and a culture grounded in innovation, safety, and teamwork, Cavendish offers project managers the chance to work on some of the most complex and nationally significant programmes in the UK today
The role
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead high-impact engineering programmes that shape the future of the UK’s nuclear infrastructure—delivering success at every scale.
Day to day, you’ll lead the planning and management of multi discipline projects involving the coordination and integration of multi discipline tasks. This role leads the engineering team to deliver technical solutions to budget, targets, and estimating the engineering scope for Projects from concept design to full Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC).
1. Lead and manage multi-disciplinary engineering teams to ensure timely, efficient delivery aligned with customer scope and expectations.
2. Foster cross-functional collaboration across engineering and other departments to drive cohesive project execution and innovation.
3. Build and maintain strong customer relationships, ensuring clear communication, issue resolution, and alignment on technical and delivery progress.
4. Oversee technical quality and compliance, ensuring engineering outputs meet agreed technical standards and safety, ethical, and environmental requirements.
5. Develop team capability and performance through resource planning, mentoring, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement and engineering best practice.
Essential experience of the Senior Engineering Manager:
6. An extensive record of managing engineering activities across all phases of EPC projects—from concept and FEED (Front-End Engineering Design) through detailed design, procurement, construction, and commissioning.
7. Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop diverse engineering teams across multiple disciplines, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and project delivery.
8. Experience managing complex engineering projects from concept to delivery, including budgeting, scheduling, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
9. Strong track record of building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including clients, to ensure satisfaction and alignment on technical and business objectives.
10. Deep understanding of engineering principles with the ability to review, challenge, and guide technical decisions, ensuring compliance with standards and best practices.
The role is on a full time, permanent basis (37 hours per week) and includes hybrid / flexible working.
Qualifications for the Senior Engineering Manager:
11. Engineering degree (or equivalent qualification) in relevant engineering discipline with significant demonstrable experience
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at
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.
Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of