Senior Mechanical Designer

As a Senior Mechanical Designer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll provide point of contact with professional engineering colleagues and various stakeholders for discipline related issues during design lifecycle, contribute to design reviews and ensure coordination and functionality of design.

Day-to-day, you'll allocate discipline tasks to allocated team of Designers, check team drawing outputs, and ensure inter discipline coordination in accordance with company and regulatory standards.

• Promote effective co-operation across Design and other functional teams.


• Assist in effective management of the customer, including liaison and relationship development with existing and new customers, to aid the development of business, resolution of technical and delivery issues, and such that the customer is fully briefed and informed of progress.


• Advise and assist in selecting the correct methods and tools for tasks and provide technical assistance to allocated team of Designers.


• Contribute to the preparation/production of drawings in support of basic, detail and production design in line with recognised ISO standards and to the required, time, cost and quality requirements.


This position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools, or standing for extended periods of time.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Warrington, Cheshire.


• Experience in a detailed design environment.


• Good knowledge of CAD tools.


• Knowledge of General Engineering Drawing Practice.


• Incorporated Engineer status.


• Demonstrable experience in technical leading of a multi-disciplined design team., HNC/HND minimum in a relevant discipline OR equivalent academic qualification.


• ICF (Integrated Competency Framework) to be demonstrated or being worked towards.


Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

At Cavendish Nuclear we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Mechanical Designer, at our Warrington, Cheshire site.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance


• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance


• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement


• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity


• Growth opportunities


• Potential to develop skills


Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we're innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group - from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.