Chief Engineer

About the job

Job Title: Chief Engineer
Location: Flexible + required travel to sites
Compensation: Competitive salary including car allowance, bonus and healthcare
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF55182

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 the Chief Engineer.

The role

As the Chief Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll provide leadership for Cavendish Nuclear to ensure consolidated engineering support across the business with strong and transparent links throughout the global business.

The Chief Engineer leads on the provision of high-quality capability (people, process and tools) for internal and external support requirements across a whole of business engineering approach that will facilitate the required coverage and capacity for the business.

You'll hold the Company Technical Authority and sets the framework for governance, assurance and technical authority structure across all engineering and technical activities within the business, to ensure alignment with regulatory and customer requirements.

Duties include:

• Develop engineering strategy for Cavendish Nuclear ensuring alignment with the wider Nuclear sector and Babcock functions to ensure strategic alignment
• Support delivery of companywide (Cavendish Nuclear, Nuclear Sector and Babcock) Engineering initiatives with primary focus on consistency of implementation across the Company
• Responsible for overall health of assurance process as it relates to engineering activities in Cavendish Nuclear
• Provide independent decision making in the event of differing professional opinion within the Business Stream engineering communities
• Ensure the right capability, processes and tools are available for use across the company and engage with the wider Nuclear sector and Babcock functions to ensure strategic alignment
• Support Heads of Engineering in delivery when requested (e.g., bringing/accessing wider technical knowledge, solutions, or subject matter experts from wider Nuclear Sector and/or Babcock and/or other industry sectors)
• Own the Cavendish Nuclear engineering arrangements and accountable for their adequacy, maintenance, continuous improvement.
• Identify long-term skills/capability requirements and subsequent development of plans to meet future demand
• Own and maintain a Career Development Framework aligned to the Babcock Role Framework
• Manage and maintain balance of Early Careers engineering resource across Cavendish Nuclear and ensure consistency of approach and outcomes
• Using data from people processes (e.g., PDR, SQEP) understand companywide development themes and work with Heads of Engineering to implement agreed interventions to close gaps
• Develop and maintain a Subject Matter Expert framework for the business streams to call upon as required

The role is on a permanent, full time basis. We are flexible on location although frequent travel to internal and external sites will be required.

Essential experience of the Chief Engineer:

• Substantial demonstrable competence covering a range of engineering and / or technical topics and demonstrable people leadership experience.
• Experience working within a highly regulated sector.

Qualifications for the Chief Engineer:

• Chartered Engineer and Member of relevant Institute
• Engineering degree or qualification in relevant engineering discipline or equivalent and appropriate level of experience

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, 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.