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Senior Mechanical Designer

Babcock International · Warrington, UK
Clearance Level
BPSS
Salary Range
Competitive
Employment Type
FULL TIME
Work Style
hybrid

// Role Summary

Join Cavendish Nuclear as a Senior Mechanical Designer in Warrington or Cumbria, playing a key role in shaping the future of nuclear engineering through innovative and compliant design.

// Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and guide a team of Designers, ensuring high-quality output.
  • Manage inter-disciplinary coordination to meet stringent standards.
  • Prepare and check design drawings against ISO standards and project requirements.
  • Liaise with customers to foster relationships and ensure project transparency.
  • Must be able to achieve and maintain BPSS security clearance.

// Role Specification

About the Role

As a Senior Mechanical Designer at Cavendish Nuclear, you will be instrumental in creating a safe and secure world through innovative, industry-leading design. This is a unique opportunity to act as a key point of contact for engineering colleagues and stakeholders throughout the design lifecycle, contributing to critical reviews, resolving technical challenges, and ensuring robust, compliant design outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Allocate design tasks, supporting and guiding a team of Designers to ensure high-quality discipline outputs.
  • Lead inter-disciplinary coordination to meet regulatory and company standards.
  • Prepare and check design drawings, ensuring compliance with ISO standards and project requirements.
  • Advise on the best methods, tools, and techniques for design tasks and provide technical support to the design team.
  • Liaise with customers to support relationship development, resolve technical issues, and ensure progress transparency.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential Experience:

  • Experience working in a detailed design environment.
  • Strong knowledge of CAD tools and engineering drawing practices.
  • Demonstrable experience providing technical leadership within a multi-discipline design environment.
  • Incorporated Engineer status (desirable).

Qualifications:

  • HNC/HND (minimum) in a relevant discipline or equivalent qualification.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

Benefits

Cavendish Nuclear offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
  • Access to Aviva DigiCare+ (Digital GP, annual health check, nutritional consultations)
  • Employee share scheme
  • Employee shopping savings portal
  • Payment of Professional Fees
  • Special paid leave for reservists in the armed forces
  • Holiday Trading
  • ‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering
  • Excellent development opportunities and an employee assistance programme supporting wellbeing.