Senior Mechanical Designer

Babcock International; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Mechanical Designer to provide technical leadership and design support at various locations including Warrington and Bristol. Candidates should have experience in a detailed design environment and strong CAD skills. This full-time role offers competitive compensation and generous benefits including a matched pension scheme and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Holiday Trading

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Qualifications

• Nuclear experience is not a requirement; we welcome applications from all engineering backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Promote effective co-operation across Design and other functional teams.
• Assist in effective management of the customer, including liaison and relationship development.
• Advise and assist in selecting methods and tools for tasks.

Skills

Experience in a detailed design environment

Good knowledge of CAD tools

Knowledge of General Engineering Drawing Practice

Technical leading of a multi-disciplined design team

Education

HNC/HND minimum in a relevant discipline OR equivalent

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Senior Mechanical Designer

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

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF64327

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 the design lifecycle, contribute to design reviews and ensure coordination and functionality of design.

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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at 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 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

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 [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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