Senior Engineering Manager

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Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager
Location: Either Warrington, Bristol, Leicester or Newbury
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Attractive Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF62481


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.


The role

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role sits within our Cavendish Nuclear business, from decommissioning redundant nuclear facilities, through supporting the Continuous at Sea Deterrent, to supporting the operation and build of nuclear power plants, our role in Cavendish Nuclear is to clean up the nuclear legacy and create a world where nuclear plays a key contribution in protecting our nation, ensuring security of energy supply and meeting our net zero commitments.

This role will be part of a multi-billion-pound framework to support a major infrastructure & machinery build defence project in Reading.


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).

  • Effective management of multi discipline teams to ensure timely & efficient delivery of engineering work to meet customer agreed scope.
  • Ensure effective management of the customer, including liaison and relationship development with existing and new customers, to aid the development of business, resolution of technical and delivery issues, and such that the customer is fully briefed and informed of progress.
  • Technical management of the engineering output to ensure delivery of technical solutions in line with agreed technical scope.
  • Manage resource demands and development of capability skills to match needs of future workload and coach and mentor members of the team.
  • Ensure project and technical audits and review are planned & executed in order to impart learning and experience as appropriate and in line with agreed standards.


Essential experience of the Senior Engineering Manager:

  • Demonstrable management experience, including experience in managing multi discipline teams to deliver analysis activities on a range of project types.
  • Experience of leading design reviews.
  • Previously worked within a highly regulated industry e.g Nuclear, Defence, Chemicals, Pharma, Oil & Gas, Aerospace etc.


The role is on a full time, permanent basis (37 hours per week) and includes hybrid / flexible working. You will be required to visit client sites in Coventry and Reading on an ad-hoc basis.


Qualifications for the Senior Engineering Manager:

  • 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 Developed Vetting (DV) for this role, however can start under Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance. Applicants must hold sole British citizenship.


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 Fees.
  • Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
  • Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
  • ‘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 Nuclear

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, 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 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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