Professional Development Lead

Babcock International; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP access (DigiCare+)

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is recruiting a Professional Development Lead for our Leicester site. The role focuses on developing and supporting early careers in engineering, project management and technical disciplines, with a permanent 37-hour week and hybrid pattern.

You will work with business leaders, training providers and professional bodies to build capability and professional accreditation. You will lead development plans, coach for registration, and help graduates secure meaningful placements.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business Management or a related discipline.
• Incorporated Engineer or Chartered Engineer status, or ability to obtain within six months.

Responsibilities

• Support graduates, apprentices and early career professionals throughout their development journey.
• Create and manage professional development plans aligned to competency frameworks and business requirements.
• Coach and mentor individuals towards professional registration and career progression goals.
• Collaborate with placement managers and business leaders to secure development opportunities.
• Monitor development performance, identify risks and implement interventions.
• Develop, coach, mentor or manage talent within engineering or technical environments.
• Work with competency frameworks or professional accreditation programmes.
• Engage stakeholders at all levels to influence and build relationships.
• Manage multiple priorities and development activities amid competing business needs.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching & mentoring

Stakeholder management

People development

Talent development

Education

Engineering or related discipline degree

Incorporated Engineer/Chartered Engineer status or eligible within 6 months

Job description

As a Professional Development Lead, you will be responsible for developing and supporting emerging talent across engineering, project management and technical disciplines. Working closely with business leaders, placement managers, professional institutions and training providers, you'll ensure apprentices, graduates and early career professionals gain the experience, skills and professional accreditations needed to succeed. This is an exciting opportunity to combine people leadership, talent development, coaching, workforce capability and stakeholder engagement in a role that directly supports projects critical to national security, clean energy and public infrastructure. You'll play a key role in developing future industry leaders whilst advancing your own career within a business committed to professional growth and continuous learning. This is a permanent, 37-hour-per-week role based at our Leicester site. Hybrid working patterns are available. Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Supporting graduates, apprentices and early career professionals throughout their development journey.
• Creating and managing professional development plans aligned to competency frameworks and business requirements.
• Coaching and mentoring individuals towards professional registration and career progression goals.
• Collaborating with placement managers and business leaders to secure meaningful development opportunities and assignments.
• Monitoring development performance, identifying risks and implementing interventions to support successful outcomes.
• Experience developing, coaching, mentoring or managing talent within engineering, technical or project environments.
• Experience working with competency frameworks, career development pathways or professional accreditation programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels.
• Experience managing multiple priorities, development activities and competing business requirements.
• Knowledge of workforce capability, early careers, talent development or professional development programmes.
• Degree qualification or equivalent experience in Engineering, Project Management, Business Management or a related discipline.
• Incorporated Engineer, Chartered Engineer status, or the ability to obtain professional registration within six months of appointment.
• Security Clearance, The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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. If you join us, you can play your part as a Professional Development Lead at our Leicester 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.