Production / Manufacturing Engineer - Cavendish Nuclear
Radar Road, Leicester
Competitive salary & benefits

About the role
Here at Cavendish Nuclear we are looking to recruit a Production Engineer based at our site in Radar Road, Leicester. You will join a team that has vast experience in Nuclear Engineering and provide professionally competent specialist services to our many clients.
Using your experience, you will prepare detailed assembly instructions from drawings and specifications and to provide practical support to the technicians during the assembly & test process of bespoke components and machinery.
We produce highly specialist products to the nuclear industry ranging from small component up to large heavy equipment. This is a highly rewarding position working within a market leading nuclear engineering organisation that provide first class career development across our diverse workforce.
What do I need to do the role?

• Ability to interpret drawings, specifications and quality requirements

• Experience testing and assembling mechanical components
• Review and advise engineering department on manufacturability of new designs and processes to ensure design for manufacture adhered to.
• Be able to work within a large team of multi skilled engineers.

What else do I need to know?

• The role will be based at Whetstone, Leicester
• Working hours split across 4.5 days (Monday- Thursday 7.30 - 4.30 / Friday 7.30 - 12.30)

About Cavendish Nuclear

Cavendish Nuclear brings together much of the UK's rich nuclear heritage to create one of the largest specialist nuclear services organisations, at home and abroad.
Our heritage dates back to the earliest days of nuclear research and development.

Cavendish Nuclear is licensed to operate thirteen nuclear sites in the UK, we are strategic partners to EDF Energy on the lifetime extensions of their fleet and work with Hitachi to deliver a new fleet of nuclear power plant.

Our expertise in the design and build of waste treatment facilities, together with our experience of waste management and fuel-handling, makes us a key supplier at Sellafield and other NDA sites.
With a highly-skilled workforce circa 6,000 we are located at offices and sites in the UK as well as internationally and are trusted to deliver the highest standards of safety, quality, security and environmental protection for our customers.

The breadth of our expertise means we are able to offer unrivalled experience and specialist knowledge across all aspects of the nuclear energy life cycle, from design and build, through operations and maintenance, to decommissioning, waste management and remediation.

We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Babcock International Group . As one of four Sectors in the Group, our growth aspirations are to take Cavendish Nuclear from a £700m revenue company to a £1bn revenue business by 2022.

Our business is founded on the three cornerstones of safety, people and performance - zero harm, one inclusive culture and 100% delivery on our promises. Our mission is simple and drives our behaviour in everything that we do:
"Cavendish Nuclear - People who innovate to make nuclear safer, faster and at lower cost".

We believe that this is strategically imperative to ensure the long term success of the nuclear sector in the UK and will greatly enhance our ability to export the broader UK nuclear industry capability.

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We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. We recognise the value that Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reserves, Veterans, Uniformed Cadet Instructors and Service Families contribute to our business and the United Kingdom. As part of the Covenant, Babcock offers Reservists and Uniformed Cadet Instructors up to 2 week's special paid leave to help them meet their commitments.

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