At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead engineering teams to shape the future of clean energy and nuclear engineering.
- Company: Join Cavendish Nuclear, a key player in clean energy and national security.
- Benefits: Generous holiday, pension scheme, health support, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Be part of a supportive, inclusive culture with excellent career growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on clean energy while enjoying flexible working arrangements.
- Qualifications: Degree in engineering and proven leadership experience in complex environments.
The predicted salary is between 44557 - 54459 £ per year.
Location: Flexible + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Shape the Future of Clean Energy and Nuclear Engineering
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 Head of Engineering at any of our Cavendish Nuclear hubs, near Warrington, Cheshire; Bristol; Leicester, Leicestershire; Newbury, Berkshire; or Moor Row, Cumbria.
The role
As a Head of Engineering, you'll play a pivotal leadership role in helping shape the future of clean energy in the United Kingdom. This is an exciting opportunity to influence major engineering programmes, strengthen technical capability across the business, and build trusted relationships with customers and key stakeholders.
This is a permanent, 37-hour-per-week role based at any of our main UK locations. Flexible working arrangements are available, and travel across Cavendish Nuclear hubs and customer sites will be expected.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with customers, partners, and industry stakeholders.
- Provide technical leadership and assurance to ensure engineering activities meet programme and customer requirements.
- Develop future engineering capability to support business growth, innovation, and emerging nuclear opportunities.
- Represent Cavendish Nuclear through external presentations, conferences, networking events, and industry forums.
- Support business development activities by promoting technical capability and identifying opportunities for growth.
Essential experience:
- Demonstrable experience leading engineering teams and functions within a complex engineering environment.
- Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to engage and influence customers, stakeholders, and senior leaders.
- Recognised credibility as a technical or engineering leader within your field.
- Experience driving innovation, continuous improvement, and organisational change.
- Passion for the nuclear, clean energy, or highly regulated engineering sector, with a commitment to shaping its future.
Qualifications:
- Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) 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 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.
- ‘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: 21/09/2026
Head of Engineering in Newbury employer: Babcock International
Babcock is an exceptional employer that prioritises employee well-being and career development, offering a flexible hybrid working environment in the UK. With generous benefits such as a matched pension scheme, professional fee coverage, and unique initiatives like 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering, Babcock fosters a supportive and inclusive culture where employees can thrive while contributing to vital national security projects.
