Senior Quality Delivery Engineer
// Role Summary
Join Cavendish Nuclear as a Senior Quality Delivery Engineer at Sellafield, Cumbria, playing a vital role in delivering robust assurance for major nuclear projects. Shape quality and safeguard critical projects in a secure environment.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead independent quality assurance activities on major nuclear projects.
- Provide expert advice on quality standards and compliance.
- Review and approve supplier quality arrangements.
- Utilise quality tools to drive performance improvement.
- Support and develop team members to foster a strong quality culture.
- Must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
About Cavendish Nuclear
We’re Cavendish Nuclear, a team of approximately 5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. We operate across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, contributing to projects critical for energy security and national protection. We are committed to shaping a future that lasts, offering meaningful careers that respect work-life balance.
The Role: Senior Quality Delivery Engineer
As a Senior Quality Delivery Engineer, you will be instrumental in delivering robust assurance across major nuclear projects, including the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo programme. You will lead independent quality activities, ensuring that complex engineering outputs meet rigorous regulatory and customer requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Lead independent assurance activities to evaluate quality performance across projects.
- Provide expert advice and guidance on quality standards, compliance, and best practice.
- Review and approve supplier quality arrangements in line with project and regulatory requirements.
- Analyse data and use quality tools to assess performance against objectives and drive improvement.
- Support and develop team members, fostering a strong quality culture across the business.
Essential Experience:
- Demonstrable experience providing quality assurance guidance within complex engineering or regulated environments.
- Proven ability to evaluate compliance and recommend corrective and preventive actions.
- Experience working with supplier quality processes and reviewing technical documentation.
- Strong background in applying quality tools, techniques, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Experience leading or mentoring others, with effective communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Qualifications:
- Degree or equivalent experience in engineering, quality, or a related discipline.
- ISO 9001 Lead Auditor qualification, or equivalent experience (Desirable).
- Membership of the Chartered Quality Institute or similar professional body (Desirable).
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent continuous improvement qualification (Desirable).
- Experience in nuclear or other high-hazard, highly regulated industries (Desirable).
Location and Working Arrangement:
This full-time, permanent role is based at our Sellafield, Cumbria site. It involves a 37-hour work week, Monday to Friday, with the option of hybrid working arrangements.
Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What We Offer:
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Special paid leave for reservists in the armed forces
- Holiday Trading benefit
- 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering
- Excellent development opportunities and an employee assistance programme supporting wellbeing.