Senior Mechanical Engineer

Babcock Mission Critical Services Espa?a SA.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Location: Didcot, Oxfordshire

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF61835

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 Engineer at our Harwell site.

The role

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you'll oversee and coordinate the work of team members, ensuring tasks are completed efficiently and safely. You will hold and manage Safety Documents to ensure strict adherence to safety protocols and utilise and maintain specialised equipment required for reactor inspections. This role is pivotal in maintaining high standards of safety and efficiency in our operations, and we welcome applicants with a strong background in mechanical supervision and a commitment to excellence.

• Take positive remedial action on identified unsafe working conditions or practices or refer to your superior any of these for which you cannot achieve any satisfactory solution.
• Interpret and implement the task, including the associated quality requirements.
• Complete the scope of work to time and budget constraints.
• Timely production/completion of any appropriate documentation and records associated with the task (Assembly & Test Plans for example).
• Maintain good communications between Sites, EDF energy (where applicable) with updates on progress, issues, and possible resolutions.

This role is full time, 37 hours across a 4-day week (Monday – Thursday) and based at the Harwell site in Oxfordshire.

Essential experience of the Senior Mechanical Engineer

• Previous experience working within a Mechanical Engineering role.
• Demonstrable experience in managing teams to deliver.
• Demonstrable experience in covering a variety of tasks across a range of complexities.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with other disciplines.

Qualifications for the Senior Mechanical Engineer

We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Benefits:

• 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 employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave from their entitlement.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

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.

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 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.