Job Title: Principal Process Engineer
Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71440
Lead the Breakthrough Engineering That Wins the Future
At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Process Engineer within our Business Winning team at one of our main sites: Warrington (Cheshire), Preston (Lancashire), Leicester (Leicestershire), Newbury (Berkshire), or Bristol.
About the Role
As a Principal Process Engineer within our Business Winning team, you’ll play a central role in shaping technical solutions and engineering excellence that help us secure the projects powering the UK’s clean‑energy, defence, and decommissioning future. You’ll lead multidisciplinary engineering inputs that strengthen our bids, influence high‑value programmes, and contribute directly to work that protects national capability.
Day‑to‑Day Responsibilities
- Lead the process engineering elements of bids.
- Develop and deliver engineering scope, schedules, and resource plans.
- Ensure technical integrity, compliance, and quality.
- Produce and review technical reports and verification plans.
- Promote engineering best practice and mentor others.
Essential Experience
- Significant demonstrable experience in a relevant engineering discipline.
- Chartered Engineer status or working towards it.
- Experience managing teams delivering technical activities.
- Ability to interface with multiple disciplines and stakeholders.
- Strong communication and influencing skills.
Qualifications
- Engineering degree (or equivalent) with significant experience.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Benefits
- 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 receive 10‑days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading scheme
- ‘Be Kind Day’ volunteering leave
- Flexible working options
- A dynamic working environment
Employment Information
We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. We’re a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com 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.
Closing date: 06/05/2026
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