Senior Engineering Manager

TN United Kingdom; Carlisle; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead innovative projects in the nuclear sector. In this pivotal role, you will manage multi-discipline teams, ensuring the delivery of technical solutions that meet customer expectations while adhering to the highest safety standards. Your expertise will contribute to the decommissioning of nuclear facilities and the operation of power plants, playing a crucial role in the UK's energy security and net zero commitments. This position offers a hybrid working model and a range of attractive benefits, making it an exciting opportunity for professionals looking to make a significant impact in the engineering field.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Demonstrable management experience in multi discipline teams.
• Ability to interface with other disciplines effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and management of multi discipline projects.
• Ensure delivery of technical solutions within budget and scope.
• Promote effective cooperation across engineering teams.

Skills

Management of multi discipline teams

Excellent communication skills

Technical management

Health and safety standards

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

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Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager
Location: Either Warrington, Preston, or Cumbria
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Attractive Benefits
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.

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.

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.
• Promote effective co-operation across Engineering and other functional teams.
• 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.
• Ensure application of highest standards for health and safety in immediate area of responsibility and ensure all team members across engineering co-operate with respect to company standards about matters on health, safety and environment, ethics and behaviours.
• 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.
• Maintain knowledge of Industry best practice, promote a culture of Engineering best practice and provide leadership and assist in driving cultural development and change.
  

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.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to interface with other disciplines.
• The role is on a full time, permanent basis (37 hours per week) and includes hybrid / flexible working.
• Qualifications for the Senior Engineering Manager:
• Engineering degree (or equivalent qualification) in relevant engineering discipline with significant demonstrable experience.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve a minimum of BPSS clearance for this role.

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• 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.

Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of