Engineering Manager - Bids

Job Title:                       Engineering Manager

Location:                       Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:             Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                     Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                          SF71440

Shape The Future of Low‑Carbon Energy and National Security

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 an Engineering Manager at any of our main locations including Bristol, Warrington (Cheshire) Leicester (Leicester) and Preston (Lancashire).

The role

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You play a pivotal role in shaping the engineering solutions that help us secure and deliver major programmes across the nuclear sector.

This is a full-time position, and you will work from any of our main locations including Bristol, Warrington (Cheshire) Leicester (Leicester) and Preston (Lancashire). Flexible working patterns are available.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Lead multidisciplinary engineering inputs for bids and live projects, ensuring safe, compliant and timely delivery.
• Coordinate engineering scope, schedules, governance activities and resource planning.
• Shape engineering solutions that are competitive, robust and aligned to customer requirements.
• Manage engineering risks, safety considerations and verification and validation plans.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders, partners and customers to ensure clear communication and technical alignment.

Essential experience of the Engineering Manager:

• Experience working within a highly regulated industry such as nuclear, chemical, defence or aerospace.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and delivering complex projects.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and work effectively across diverse technical disciplines.
• Strong commercial and business awareness in a technical environment.
• Bids experience is not essential — development will be provided.

Qualifications for the Engineering Manager:

• Degree in a relevant engineering discipline (or equivalent) with significant demonstrable experience.
• Chartered Engineer status, or actively working towards it.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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:   27/03/2026

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