Senior Mechanical CAD Designer

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking a Senior Mechanical CAD Designer for a hybrid role based in Warrington, Bristol, Newbury, or Leicester. The position involves liaising with engineering teams and stakeholders, overseeing design tasks, and ensuring compliance with standards. Applicants should have experience in detailed design, knowledge of CAD tools, and be capable of leading a multi-disciplinary team. A minimum HNC/HND in a relevant field is required. The role offers competitive salary and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance and professional development support. Cavendish Nuclear promotes an inclusive work culture and encourages flexible working arrangements.

Senior Mechanical CAD Designer
Location:
Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD Preston, GB, PR2 2YB
Company: Cavendish Nuclear
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Senior Mechanical Designer
Location: Warrington, Bristol, Newbury OR Leicester + Hybrid Working
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64327
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 Mechanical Designer at our Warrington, Cheshire site.
The role
As a Senior Mechanical Designer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll provide point of contact with professional engineering colleagues and various stakeholders for discipline related issues during design lifecycle, contribute to design reviews and ensure coordination and functionality of design.
Day-to-day, you’ll allocate discipline tasks to allocated team of Designers, check team drawing outputs, and ensure inter discipline coordination in accordance with company and regulatory standards.
Promote effective co-operation across Design and other functional teams.
Assist in effective management of the customer, including liaison and relationship development with existing and new customers, to aid the development of business, resolution of technical and delivery issues, and such that the customer is fully briefed and informed of progress.
Advise and assist in selecting the correct methods and tools for tasks and provide technical assistance to allocated team of Designers.
Contribute to the preparation/production of drawings in support of basic, detail and production design in line with recognised ISO standards and to the required, time, cost and quality requirements.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based in either of our Warrington, Bristol, Leicester or Newbury sites.
Essential experience of the Senior Mechanical Designer
Nuclear experience is not a requirement, we welcome applications from all engineering backgrounds.
Experience in a detailed design environment.
Good knowledge of CAD tools.
Knowledge of General Engineering Drawing Practice.
Demonstrable experience in technical leading of a multi-disciplined design team.
Qualifications for the Senior Mechanical Designer
HNC/HND minimum in a relevant discipline OR equivalent academic qualification
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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 Nuclear 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
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 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.
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