Senior Systems Engineer
// Role Summary
Join Cavendish Nuclear as a Senior Systems Engineer and play a pivotal role in delivering high-impact systems engineering across a major, long-term nuclear programme. Make a real-world impact in a role that offers hybrid working and excellent development opportunities.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead and direct systems engineering activities on complex programmes.
- Mentor and manage a team of systems engineers.
- Deliver hands-on systems engineering including requirements, architecture, and integration.
- Work on critical projects within clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning.
- Must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
About the Role
As a Senior Systems Engineer at Cavendish Nuclear, you will have an extraordinary role contributing to a safe and secure world. You will be instrumental in delivering high-impact systems engineering across a major, long-term nuclear programme, working from our Bristol or Warrington, Cheshire sites. This is a full-time, permanent position, with hybrid working patterns available, and involves 37 hours per week.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and direct systems engineering activities across complex programmes.
- Allocate tasks and oversee the delivery from a team of systems engineers.
- Mentor and support junior engineers to grow capability within the team.
- Deliver hands-on systems engineering, including requirements, architecture, and integration.
- Lead and contribute to technical and design reviews with key stakeholders.
Essential Experience
- Strong systems engineering experience across requirements engineering, system architecture, integration, verification, and validation.
- Proven experience in leading or mentoring engineers within engineering teams.
- Experience working on complex, multidisciplinary engineering programmes.
- Ability to review technical outputs and lead engineering or design reviews.
- Application of full lifecycle systems engineering expertise.
Qualifications
- Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Chartered Engineer status or working towards chartership is desirable.
Security Clearance Requirement
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What We Offer
Cavendish Nuclear offers an attractive salary and 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 options.
- 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering.
- Excellent development opportunities and an employee assistance programme.
About Cavendish Nuclear
Cavendish Nuclear is a team of approximately 5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. We contribute to projects critical to energy security and national protection across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning. We are committed to building an inclusive culture and are happy to discuss flexible working.