Senior Mechanical Engineer

Babcock International; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the nuclear sector as a Senior Mechanical Engineer, based in Bristol or Newbury. You will manage engineering activities and work as part of a collaborative team that ensures safety and compliance while contributing to groundbreaking projects. This role offers hybrid working arrangements and various benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, pension scheme, and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

'Be Kind Day' volunteering leave

Growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant experience in multi-discipline teams.
• Demonstrable experience across a variety of engineering tasks.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of engineering and technical activities.
• Ensure compliance with procedures, codes, and standards.
• Produce and approve calculations, analyses, and technical reports.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Education

HNC/HND in Engineering

Job description

Senior Mechanical Engineer
Location:

Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ Reading, GB, RG14 2PZ

Company: Cavendish Nuclear
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Senior Mechanical Engineer
Location: Either Bristol or Newbury + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF57827

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 Engineer, at our Bristol or Newbury sites.

The role

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll manage the delivery of engineering and technical activities, through the application of process, domain knowledge and experience.

Day–to–day, you'll assist in effective management of the customer, including liaison and relationship development with existing and new customers.

Ensure procedures, codes and standards are correctly identified and applied to engineering and technical activities.
Contribute to Project Safety Assessment process.
Ensure task and project risks are communicated and managed appropriately.
Produce, review and approve calculations, analyses, drawings, models, design basis documentation and technical reports as assigned.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based at either of our Bristol or Newbury sites. This role provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Mechanical Engineer

Experience in working collaboratively in multi–discipline teams to deliver activities on a range of project types.
Demonstrable experience in covering a variety of tasks across a range of complexities.
Good communication skills and the ability to interface with other disciplines.

Qualifications for the Senior Mechanical Engineer

Minimum HNC/HND in Engineering, or equivalent experience in relevant engineering discipline, with significant demonstrable experience.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels – 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 Babcock 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
Growth opportunities
Potential to develop skills

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 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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