Senior Mechanical Engineer

Babcock International; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Mechanical Engineer, where you'll play a key role in delivering engineering solutions within the nuclear sector. This position offers a unique opportunity to work collaboratively in multi-discipline teams, ensuring safety and compliance across various projects. With a hybrid working arrangement, you can balance your professional and personal life while contributing to innovative solutions in clean energy and defense. The company values your growth, offering generous benefits and the potential to develop your skills in a supportive environment. Make a difference in a secure and dynamic industry.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Growth opportunities

Potential to develop skills

Qualifications

• Experience in multi-discipline teams for project delivery.
• Demonstrable experience in various engineering tasks.

Responsibilities

• Manage engineering and technical activities effectively.
• Ensure compliance with procedures, codes, and standards.

Skills

Collaborative teamwork

Communication skills

Risk management

Technical documentation

Education

HNC/HND in Engineering

Equivalent experience in relevant engineering discipline

Job description

Job Title: Senior Mechanical Engineer
Location: Bristol + 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 site.

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 our Bristol site. 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 allows employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year 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 [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.