Location:
Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD
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Company: Cavendish Nuclear
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Quality Engineer
Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 74797
Help shape quality on a nationally significant engineering programme
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 Quality Engineer at our Warrington, Cheshire site.
The role
As a Quality Engineer, you'll play a vital role in supporting the successful delivery of a highly regulated capital investment programme.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
Conduct supplier quality audits and assessments to verify compliance with quality standards, contractual requirements and regulatory obligations.
Monitor supplier performance, identifying quality risks and supporting corrective and preventive actions.
Review supplier quality management systems, processes and documentation to ensure governance and assurance requirements are met.
Collaborate with procurement, engineering and project teams to drive continuous improvement across the supply chain.
Provide independent quality assurance reporting, analysing audit findings and performance data to enhance supplier capability and delivery outcomes.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and based in Warrington, Cheshire. Flexible and hybrid working arrangements are available.
Essential experience of the Quality Engineer:
Experience working within highly regulated industries.
Experience identifying quality risks and supporting corrective action programmes.
Experience engaging with a range of stakeholders across engineering, procurement and project functions.
Qualifications for the Quality Engineer:
Lead Auditor or Internal Auditor qualification, or the willingness and capability to achieve this qualification with support and development in role.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
What we offer
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.
Cavendish
We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
Join us and discover how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email
[email protected] 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: 18/08/2026
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