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Job Title: Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Bristol, Newbury, or Warrington + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65801

Shape the Future of Engineering Excellence

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 Manufacturing Engineer at our Bristol or Newbury, Berkshire or Warrington, Cheshire site.

The role

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you'll have a role that is out of the ordinary. This role places you at the heart of a major defence programme, where your expertise will shape manufacturing strategies from the earliest design stages—driving innovation, efficiency, and impact across the business.

Day-to-day You’ll Be Required To

• Collaborating with design teams from the earliest stages to embed manufacturability into product designs, ensuring alignment with safety, quality, cost, delivery, and lead-time requirements.
• Defining and documenting manufacturing processes, including equipment selection, workflow design, and quality control procedures.
• Identifying and resolving potential production challenges, such as bottlenecks, material constraints, or process inefficiencies, through proactive analysis and problem-solving.
• Partnering with cross-functional teams, including design and quality, to deliver a seamless and efficient manufacturing process.
  
  

• Demonstrated expertise in Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) methodologies
• Hands-on experience in design for manufacturability, ideally from the early stages of the production lifecycle
• Proven success in introducing new products into manufacturing environments
• Background in highly regulated or high-volume manufacturing sectors
• Strong ability to collaborate across engineering disciplines to drive efficient production outcomes
  
  

• Degree (or equivalent) in Engineering or a related technical discipline
  
  

• 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 in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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