Principal CS&A Engineer

Manpower RPO - Babcock; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the nuclear sector as a Principal Civil, Structural and Architectural Engineer. This full-time role involves managing diverse projects from design to decommissioning, delivering top-tier engineering solutions, and enjoying generous benefits. With a hybrid structure, you'll balance onsite and home working effectively, contributing to vital infrastructure.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant experience in structural design.
• Awareness of latest design codes.
• Understanding of legal standards.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Nuclear design work and inspections.
• Manage project delivery and engineering teams.
• Conduct feasibility studies and prepare technical reports.

Skills

Design of structures in reinforced concrete

Design for seismic loading

Latest design codes and standards

Legal and regulatory standards

Education

Degree Qualified (BEng or MEng) in Civil / Structural Engineering

Chartered or Incorporated Engineer with ICE or IstructE membership

Job description

Job Title: Principal CS&A Engineer
Location: Warrington, UK + Hybrid working arrangement
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61485

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 Principal Civil, Structural and Architectural Engineer.

The role
As a Principal Civil, Structural and Architectural Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be trusted to undertake projects through the entire project lifecycle, and you will therefore have an opportunity to be involved in, or lead projects from initial scheme and concept design, to engineering and detailed design, overseeing construction, right through to eventual decommissioning. This is particularly unique within a consultancy environment and what makes our projects and work so rewarding.

Day to day, you'll:

• Deliver Nuclear design work, inspections and construction site support on projects for a range of public and private sector clients within the UK and overseas. Work encompasses the full lifecycle of a project.
• Concept and Feasibility studies for multi discipline design projects.
• Analyse and Design using engineering software such as Tekla and Robot as well as producing hand calculations.
• Prepare Calculations, CDM activities, Basis of Design, Material Specifications, Scopes of Work, Technical reports, Inter discipline design coordination and supervision.
• Be responsible for the management of project delivery, as well as people management of Senior CS&A Engineers and CS&A Engineers.
  

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with two days in the office/onsite and three days working from home.

Essential experience of the Principal CS&A Engineer:

• Significant experience in the design of structures in reinforced concrete and steelwork
• It would be advantageous but not necessary to have previous experience within the nuclear industry and design for seismic loading
• Awareness and experience of using the latest design codes and standards
• Understanding of the relevant legal and regulatory standards
  

Qualifications for the Principal CS&A Engineer:

• Degree Qualified (BEng or MEng), Civil / Structural Engineer
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer with membership of ICE or IstructE, or working towards

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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 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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