Engineering Manager
Job Summary
Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location: Flexible UK Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Attractive Salary Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71440
Shape The Future of LowCarbon Energy and National Security
At Cavendish Nuclear were working to create a safe and secure world together and if you join us you can play your part as an Engineering Manager at any of our main locations including Bristol Warrington (Cheshire) Leicester (Leicester) and Preston (Lancashire).
The role
This is a full-time position and you will work from any of our main locations including Bristol Warrington (Cheshire) Leicester (Leicester) and Preston (Lancashire). Flexible working patterns are available.
Day-to-day youll be required to:
- Lead multidisciplinary engineering inputs for bids and live projects ensuring safe compliant and timely delivery.
- Coordinate engineering scope schedules governance activities and resource planning.
- Shape engineering solutions that are competitive robust and aligned to customer requirements.
- Manage engineering risks safety considerations and verification and validation plans.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders partners and customers to ensure clear communication and technical alignment.
Essential experience of the Engineering Manager:
- Experience working within a highly regulated industry such as nuclear chemical defence or aerospace.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and delivering complex projects.
- Ability to influence stakeholders and work effectively across diverse technical disciplines.
- Strong commercial and business awareness in a technical environment.
- Bids experience is not essential development will be provided.
Qualifications for the Engineering Manager:
- Degree in a relevant engineering discipline (or equivalent) with significant demonstrable experience.
- Chartered Engineer status or actively working towards it.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - ()
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 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 days 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.
Cavendish
Were Cavendish Nuclear a team of c5000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.
Here youll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy defence and civil decommissioning your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together were shaping a future that lasts not only through the impact we make but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
Join us and discover how far we can go 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. Were committed to building an inclusive culture where everyones free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 29/04/2026
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About Company
Babcock is a leading provider of critical, complex engineering services which support national defence, save lives and protect communities.