Manufacturing jobs in United Kingdom

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

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

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role ID: SF65801

Shape the Future of Engineering Excellence

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Cavendish Nuclear, you’ll play a part in a major defence programme by shaping manufacturing strategies from the earliest design stages—driving innovation, efficiency, and impact across the business. This role is based at our Bristol, Newbury, or Warrington site with hybrid working patterns available.

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:

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

This is a full-time role based at our Bristol, Newbury, or Warrington site, with hybrid working patterns available – typically 2–3 days in the office. Travel to other Cavendish Nuclear hubs and client sites is expected 1–2 times per quarter.

• Demonstrated expertise in Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) methodologies
• Hands-on experience in design for manufacturability, ideally from the early stages of the production lifecycle
• Proven success in introducing new products into manufacturing environments
• Background in highly regulated or high-volume manufacturing sectors
• Strong ability to collaborate across engineering disciplines to drive efficient production outcomes

• 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 email careers@babcockinternational.com 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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