Head of Engineering

Location

Warrington, Cheshire | United Kingdom

Job description

Job Title:        Head of Engineering
Location:        Flexible + Hybrid Working Arrangement 
Compensation:    Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:        Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:        SF56071

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 Head of Engineering.

The role
As a Head of Engineering, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll help drive continued growth of the business within the Clean Energy space to help them realise their aspirations to achieve Net Zero by 2040.

Day to day, you’ll support the business winning process through input into and review of tender requirements, including estimates and governance.
•    Line manage planning, estimating and technical bid resources during the pre-delivery phase
•    Develops and owns the engineering scope and schedule required to meet customer requirements, engaging across the company.
•    Ensure that the technical integrity of solutions can be delivered safely to time, cost, and quality and complies with engineering arrangements.
•    Ensure that the specific project/programme is reviewed, audited, and assured in line with the relevant assurance procedures.
•    Ensure all engineering resource within the project/programme are demonstrably SQEP to meet project requirements.

This is a full-time role with 37 hours per week. The successful candidate can work from any Cavendish Nuclear site with hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Head of Engineering:

• Must come from a highly regulated industry.
• Demonstrable management experience, including experience in managing multi-discipline teams to deliver analysis activities on a range of project types.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to interface with other disciplines.

Qualifications for the Head of Engineering:

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

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 the majority of 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

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. 

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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:    14/03/2024

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