Senior Mechanical Engineer

Senior Mechanical Engineers

Cavendish Nuclear

Birchwood, Warrington

Competitive salary & benefits

About the role

Here at Cavendish Nuclear we are looking to recruit a Senior Mechanical Engineer to be based at state of the art facility in Birchwood Warrington. You will join a team that has vast experience in Nuclear Engineering and provide professionally competent specialist services to our many clients.

Within this role you will be involved with complex large-scale nuclear design, manufacture and support projects for the nations in service and decommissioning power stations.

You will be responsible for providing design solutions and coordination of;

• Design Schemes
• Design Proposal Drawings
• General Assemblies
• Functional Specifications / Functional Requirements Documents
• Technical Reports and Studies
• Design Justification Reports

You will have the opportunity to lead a teams of designers & engineers, and take responsibility for delivery of single-discipline work package to programme, budge and required quality.

This is a highly rewarding position working within a market leading nuclear engineering organisation. We support UK and international nuclear power stations with a range of services and strive to be best in class across our various contracts.

What do I need to do the role?

• Understands the requirements of CE marking.
• Has good knowledge of fabrication techniques.
• Has good knowledge/understanding of achievable manufacturing accuracy.
• Good working knowledge of geometric tolerancing, weld symbols, limits and fits, surface finish.
• Good working knowledge of commonly used materials and associated standards.

About Cavendish Nuclear

For more than a century, Babcock has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly-skilled engineering Cavendish Nuclear brings together much of the UK’s rich nuclear heritage to create one of the largest specialist nuclear services organizations, at home and abroad.

Our heritage dates back to the earliest days of nuclear research and development. Cavendish Nuclear is licensed to operate thirteen nuclear sites in the UK, we are strategic partners to EDF Energy on the lifetime extensions of their fleet and work with Hitachi to deliver a new fleet of nuclear power plant.

Our expertise in the design and build of waste treatment facilities, together with our experience of waste management and fuel-handling, makes us a key supplier at Sellafield and other NDA sites. With a highly-skilled workforce circa 6,000 we are located at offices and sites in the UK as well as internationally and are trusted to deliver the highest standards of safety, quality, security and environmental protection for our customers.

The breadth of our expertise means we are able to offer unrivalled experience and specialist knowledge across all aspects of the nuclear energy life cycle, from design and build, through operations and maintenance, to decommissioning, waste management and remediation.

We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Babcock International Group. As one of four Sectors in the Group, our growth aspirations are to take Cavendish Nuclear from a £700m revenue company to a £1bn revenue business by 2022. Our business is founded on the three cornerstones of safety, people and performance - zero harm, one inclusive culture and 100% delivery on our promises.

Our mission is simple and drives our behaviour in everything that we do:

“Cavendish Nuclear - People who innovate to make nuclear safer, faster and at lower cost”.

We believe that this is strategically imperative to ensure the long term success of the nuclear sector in the UK and will greatly enhance our ability to export the broader UK nuclear industry capability.

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