Job Title: Design and Engineering Manager
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive including Company Car, Healthcare and Bonus
Role Type: Full time / Permanent or Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF56778
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 Design and Engineering Manager, at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Design and Engineering Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be part of a team will be responsible for delivering an exciting, first of its kind project on behalf of the Ministry of Defence and will involve decommission and dispose of nuclear assets no longer required for defence purposes.
Day-to-day, you'll be the focal point custodian for planning and managing complex multi discipline projects or collection of multi discipline tasks. You'll be the Design Authority and provide assurance, accountable for the integrity of the engineering undertaken within the project.
- Primary interface between Operations and the Design & Safety Team.
- Owner of several Site Licence Condition arrangements and point of contact with 'other' Design or Technical Authorities.
- Management and demonstration of team SQEP and compliance with site license conditions processes.
- Responsible for the integrity of engineering scoped by RRDL and then developed by Responsible Designers / Supply Chain - where engineering design potentially impacts safety.
- In accordance with project requirements, there may be a requirement to produce, review and approve calculations, analyses, drawings, models, design basis documentation and technical reports.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Engineering and Design Manager
Although a desirable, nuclear experience is not an absolute requirement. We welcome applications from all engineering backgrounds.
- Experience of chairing single and multi-discipline design reviews.
- Ability to identify SQEP shortfalls and utilise the wider pool to fill/support project demands.
- Builds a sense of team spirit, encouraging co-operative relationships both within and outside of the project to deliver shared objectives.
- Experience of defining, applying, and monitoring engineering governance arrangements.
- Critical review of design substantiation (including methodology).
Qualifications for the Engineering and Design Manager
- Engineering degree (or equivalent qualification) in relevant engineering discipline, with significant demonstrable experience
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution 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.
We are a disability confident committed employer. 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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