Senior Mechanical Designer

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Warrington, Bristol, Reading, Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Mechanical Designer, where you will play a crucial role in the design lifecycle. This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with engineering professionals and stakeholders, ensuring the coordination and functionality of designs. You will lead a team of designers, manage customer relationships, and contribute to high-quality design outputs. With a commitment to innovation in the nuclear industry, this role provides a platform for your career to flourish while working in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Payment of Professional Fees

Qualifications

• Experience in a detailed design environment.
• Demonstrable experience in leading a multi-disciplined design team.

Responsibilities

• Allocate tasks to Designers and check drawing outputs.
• Promote co-operation across Design and functional teams.

Skills

CAD Tools

General Engineering Drawing Practice

Technical Leadership

Education

HNC/HND in relevant discipline

Equivalent academic qualification

Job description

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Senior Mechanical Designer

Location:

Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ Reading, GB, RG14 2PZ Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD Leicester, GB, LE3 1UF Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Senior Mechanical Designer
Location: Warrington, Bristol, Newbury or Leicester sites + Hybrid Working
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60901

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 Mechanical Designer at our Warrington, Cheshire site.

The role
As a Senior Mechanical Designer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll provide point of contact with professional engineering colleagues and various stakeholders for discipline related issues during design lifecycle, contribute to design reviews and ensure coordination and functionality of design.

Day-to-day, you’ll allocate discipline tasks to allocated team of Designers, check team drawing outputs, and ensure inter discipline coordination in accordance with company and regulatory standards.

• Promote effective co-operation across Design and other functional teams.
• Assist in 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.
• Advise and assist in selecting the correct methods and tools for tasks and provide technical assistance to allocated team of Designers.
• Contribute to the preparation/production of drawings in support of basic, detail and production design in line with recognised ISO standards and to the required, time, cost and quality requirements.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based in either of our Warrington, Bristol, Leicester or Newbury sites.

Essential experience of the Senior Mechanical Designer

• Nuclear experience is not a requirement, we welcome applications from all engineering backgrounds.
• Experience in a detailed design environment.
• Good knowledge of CAD tools.
• Knowledge of General Engineering Drawing Practice.
• Incorporated Engineer status.
• Demonstrable experience in technical leading of a multi-disciplined design team.
• Qualifications for the Senior Mechanical Designer
• HNC/HND minimum in a relevant discipline OR equivalent academic qualification.
• 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 Nuclear 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

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 [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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