Engineering Manager- Modular Reactor in Warrington

Location: Flexible UK

Compensation: Attractive salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70872

Bring Your Commercial Skills to Projects That Help Create A Safer World.

The Role

As an Engineering Manager you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will lead the planning, coordination and integration of multi-discipline engineering on complex, high-impact projects. You’ll help accelerate advanced reactor deployment and modern nuclear facilities—work that strengthens national security, supports energy resilience and advances your leadership career through exposure to cutting-edge engineering challenges.

Day-to-day, You’ll Be Expected To:

• Lead multi-discipline engineering planning, integration and delivery to time, cost and quality.
• Set technical direction, manage interfaces and assure design, safety and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with reactor vendors, supply chain and internal stakeholders to solve complex problems.
• Manage risks, change control and configuration to maintain scope, schedule and quality baselines.
• Coach engineers and cultivate a high-performance, inclusive team culture.

This is a 37-hour role based at any of our main UK locations. Hybrid working patterns are available, and travel to other Babcock and customer sites will be expected (with regular travel to Warrington, Bristol and Manchester).

Essential Experience Of The Engineering Manager:

• Direct experience in small modular, advanced modular or modular reactor development (SMR/AMR).
• Senior-level engineering/technical leadership within complex projects.
• Background with reactor vendors or nuclear engineering organisations.
• Strong understanding of nuclear technologies, decommissioning or fuel-cycle engineering.
• Demonstrable experience of the UK regulatory licensing process and working within the UK regulatory regime.

Qualifications For The Engineering Manager:

• Engineering degree (or equivalent qualification) in relevant engineering discipline, with significant demonstrable experience.
• Chartered Engineer status.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain a Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - 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.
• ‘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: 19/05/26