Location:
Carlisle, GB, CA20 1PG
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Company: Cavendish Nuclear
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Senior Quality Delivery Engineer
Location: Sellafield, Cumbria + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: £55,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73737
Shape Quality. Safeguard Critical Projects. Build a Safer 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 Senior Quality Delivery Engineer at our Sellafield, Cumbria site.
The role
As a Senior Quality Delivery Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in delivering robust assurance across major nuclear projects, including the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo programme. You’ll lead independent quality activities, ensuring that complex engineering outputs meet rigorous regulatory and customer requirements.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
Lead independent assurance activities to evaluate quality performance across projects
Provide expert advice and guidance on quality standards, compliance, and best practice
Review and approve supplier quality arrangements in line with project and regulatory requirements
Analyse data and using quality tools to assess performance against objectives and drive improvement
Support and develop team members, fostering a strong quality culture across the business
This role is full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, and is based at our Sellafield site with the option of hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Senior Quality Delivery Engineer:
Demonstrable experience providing quality assurance guidance within complex engineering or regulated environments
Proven ability to evaluate compliance and recommend corrective and preventive actions
Experience working with supplier quality processes and reviewing technical documentation
Strong background in applying quality tools, techniques, and continuous improvement methodologies
Experience leading or mentoring others, with effective communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Qualifications for the Senior Quality Delivery Engineer:
Degree or equivalent experience in engineering, quality, or a related discipline
ISO 9001 Lead Auditor qualification, or equivalent experience (Desirable)
Membership of the Chartered Quality Institute or similar professional body (Desirable)
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent continuous improvement qualification (Desirable)
Experience in nuclear or other high-hazard, highly regulated industries (Desirable)
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: 08/07/2026
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