Senior Architectural Technician

Job Title:            Senior Architectural Technician
Location:            Warrington, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangement (if applicable)
Compensation:  Competitive + Benefits
Role Type:          Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:              SF63972

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 Architectural Technician at our Warrington site. 

The role
As a Senior Architectural Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will form a leading role within a dynamic design team undertaking traditional, bespoke and innovative designs supporting the full suite of architectural deliverables for nuclear decommissioning and nuclear new build projects, as well as support to operating nuclear sites.

Day-to-day, you’ll:

• Deliver Nuclear design work, inspections and construction site support on projects for a range of public and private sector clients within the UK and overseas. Work encompasses the full lifecycle of a project.
• Support the preparation of designs for buildings of varying complexity, including production of relevant models and drawings using Autodesk products, particularly Revit and AutoCAD, throughout the various stages of the design process.
• Work with integrated multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high profile projects. Confident with working in a collaborative environment and utilising federated models to ensure a coordinated and integrated architectural design.
• Assisting and mentoring team members to promote their technical and professional development.
• Provide support in the solution of problems that may arise during the design, fabrication, construction, installation, commissioning and decommissioning phases.
• As specified by the Technical Lead on projects, provide progress updates and accurately report the estimate to complete assigned tasks.
• Be responsible for ensuring, as far as possible, the correctness of their own work and for checking other relevant output.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2  days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Architectural Technician:

• Significant and proven experience in the design and detailing of buildings and associated architectural elements. 
• It would be advantageous, but not necessary, to have previous experience within the nuclear industry.
• Experience and understanding of multi-discipline design within a BIM environment.
• Conversant with Autodesk products with a minimum of 2 years project experience on Revit and Navisworks. 

Qualifications for the Senior Architectural Technician:

• HNC/HND qualified in Architectural Technology or a related subject. 
• Experience in the Architectural delivery of complex and highly serviced buildings. 
• Preference to be working towards or achieved CIAT membership or chartership
   

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. 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 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. 

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: 13/05/25

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