Laboratory Quality Manager in Carlisle

Location: Moor Row, Cumbria + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape Quality. Protect Safety. Enable Confidence In Nuclear Delivery. 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 Laboratory Quality Manager at Greeson Court, in Moor Row, Cumbria.

The role involves leading quality assurance across accredited laboratory operations within a highly regulated, high hazard nuclear environment. Your expertise protects safety, ensures compliance, and enables confident decision making across complex programmes. This is a permanent role, 37 hours per week, based full time at Greeson Court in Moor Row, Cumbria. Flexible working options can be discussed where business needs allow.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Leading and prioritising quality management activities using risk and opportunity management tools
• Providing expert advice and guidance on the flow down of quality requirements across the supply chain
• Investigating quality events effectively, ensuring lessons learned are identified and shared
• Supporting business winning activities, contributing to tender reviews and quality input
• Coaching and influencing teams at all levels to deliver quality plans and performance targets

Essential experience:

• Proven experience in quality management within nuclear or another highly regulated, high hazard industry
• Demonstrable leadership of ISO 17025 accredited management systems
• Strong experience conducting and leading quality audits
• A track record of influencing stakeholders and driving continuous improvement

Qualifications:

• Degree in Science or Engineering, or equivalent qualification supported by relevant experience
• Approved Auditor qualification or demonstrable auditing capability
• Professional quality qualifications are advantageous

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

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 allows UK Cavendish 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish Nuclear is 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.

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: 14/05/2026