Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and engineering firm is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer based in Bristol, Newbury, or Warrington. The ideal candidate will shape manufacturing strategies in a major defense program and ensure product designs align with manufacturability standards. This full-time role offers a hybrid working arrangement and an attractive salary with various benefits including employee assistance programs and development opportunities.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in APQP methodologies.
• Hands-on experience in design for manufacturability.
• Proven success in introducing new products into manufacturing environments.
• Strong ability to collaborate across engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with design teams to embed manufacturability.
• Define and document manufacturing processes.
• Identify and resolve production challenges.
• Partner with cross-functional teams for efficient manufacturing.

Skills

Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)

Design for manufacturability

Collaboration across engineering disciplines

Education

Degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline

Job description

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Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Location:

Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ Reading, GB, RG14 2PZ Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Bristol, Newbury, or Warrington + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65801

Shape the Future of Engineering Excellence

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 Manufacturing Engineer at our Bristol or Newbury, Berkshire or Warrington, Cheshire site.

The role

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you'll have a role that is out of the ordinary. This role places you at the heart of a major defence programme, where your expertise will shape manufacturing strategies from the earliest design stages—driving innovation, efficiency, and impact across the business.

Day-to-day you’ll be required to:

• Collaborating with design teamsfrom the earliest stages to embed manufacturability into product designs, ensuring alignment with safety, quality, cost, delivery, and lead-time requirements.
• Defining and documenting manufacturing processes, including equipment selection, workflow design, and quality control procedures.
• Identifying and resolving potential production challenges, such as bottlenecks, material constraints, or process inefficiencies, through proactive analysis and problem-solving.
• Partnering with cross-functional teams, including design and quality, to deliver a seamless and efficient manufacturing process.

This is afull-time rolebased at ourBristol, Newbury, or Warrington site, withhybrid working patternsavailable – typically2–3 days in the office.Travel to other Cavendish Nuclear hubs and client sitesis expected1–2 times per quarter.

Essential experience of the Senior Manufacturing Engineer:

• Demonstrated expertise inAdvanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)methodologies
• Hands-on experience indesign for manufacturability, ideally from the early stages of the production lifecycle
• Proven success inintroducing new productsinto manufacturing environments
• Background inhighly regulated or high-volume manufacturingsectors
• Strong ability to collaborate across engineering disciplines to drive efficient production outcomes

Qualifications for the Senior Manufacturing Engineer:

• Degree (or equivalent) in Engineering or a related technical discipline
• 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.

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 [e-mail] 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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