Senior Quality Delivery Engineer

Job Title:                     Senior Quality Delivery Engineer

Location:                     Sellafield, Cumbria + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation:           £55,000 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF73737

Shape Quality. Safeguard Critical Projects. Build a Safer Future.

At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quality Delivery Engineer at our Sellafield, Cumbria site.

The role

As a Senior Quality Delivery Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in delivering robust assurance across major nuclear projects, including the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo programme.  You’ll lead independent quality activities, ensuring that complex engineering outputs meet rigorous regulatory and customer requirements.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• 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 using quality tools to assess performance against objectives and drive improvement
• Support and develop team members, fostering a strong quality culture across the business

This role is full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, and is based at our Sellafield site with the option of hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Quality Delivery Engineer:

• 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 for the Senior Quality Delivery Engineer:

• 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)

Security Clearance

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

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• 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 UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date:  08/07/2026

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