Job Title: Senior Mechanical Designer
Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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.
1. Promote effective co-operation across Design and other functional teams.
2. 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.
3. Advise and assist in selecting the correct methods and tools for tasks and provide technical assistance to allocated team of Designers.
4. 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 Warrington, Cheshire. This role provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Senior Mechanical Designer:
5. Experience in a detailed design environment.
6. Good knowledge of CAD tools.
7. Knowledge of General Engineering Drawing Practice.
8. Incorporated Engineer status.
9. Demonstrable experience in technical leading of a multi-disciplined design team.
Qualifications for the Senior Mechanical Designer:
10. HNC/HND minimum in a relevant discipline OR equivalent academic qualification.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance for this role. Further details are available at
What we offer
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Employee share scheme
14. Employee shopping savings portal
15. Payment of Professional Fees
16. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
17. 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
18. ‘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
19. Growth opportunities
20. Potential to develop skills
Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of