Engineering Manager

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Location: Warrington Cheshire or Preston Lancashire Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72962

Lead Design. Shape National Capability. Build a Future that Matters.

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 our Warrington Cheshire or Preston Lancashire sites.

The role

As an Engineering Manager youll have a role thats out of the ordinary. Youll lead and inspire multidisciplinary engineering teams on one of the UKs most strategically important nuclear infrastructure programmes. Supporting the design and delivery of a new facility that will underpin the UKs nuclear fuel cycle this role puts you at the heart of complex highvalue engineering from concept through to Engineering Procurement and Construction.

Day-to-day youll be required to:

• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver safe highquality design solutions
• Provide technical governance and assurance as Design or Technical Authority
• Integrate engineering work packages across process mechanical electrical and civil disciplines
• Ensure compliance with nuclear safety quality and regulatory requirements
• Support planning estimating and risk management across the engineering lifecycle.

This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week based at Warrington Cheshire or Preston working patterns are available.

Essential experience of the Engineering Manager:

• Proven experience leading engineering teams within major complex projects
• Strong understanding of full project lifecycles from concept design to delivery
• Experience managing multidisciplinary technical interfaces
• Ability to act as a technical authority within a regulated environment.

Qualifications for the Engineering Manager:

• Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline
• Chartered Engineer status or demonstrable experience working towards chartership is desirable

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: 28/04/2026

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