Process Engineer

We Served; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading nuclear engineering company is looking for a Process Engineer to tackle complex challenges that support critical national infrastructure. The role requires collaboration across teams and effective communication with clients and suppliers. Candidates should hold an engineering degree and demonstrate versatility in tasks. This permanent position offers a hybrid working model, generous benefits, and opportunities for professional development. Join us to make a real impact while ensuring a safe and secure world.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension contributions

Access to Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working collaboratively in multi-discipline teams.
• Demonstrable experience across a range of engineering tasks.
• Ability to interface effectively with other disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Promote collaboration across teams.
• Interface with customers and suppliers for design issues.
• Apply engineering procedures, codes, and standards.
• Communicate project risks appropriately.
• Contribute to Product Safety Assessment processes.

Skills

Collaborative teamwork

Versatility in engineering tasks

Effective communication

Education

Engineering degree (or equivalent)

Job description

Job Title: Process Engineer

Location: Flexible + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF68011

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 Process Engineer, at one of our key locations: Bristol, Warrington (Cheshire), or Humberside (East Yorkshire).

The role

As a Process Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of solving complex engineering challenges that support critical national infrastructure. You’ll contribute to projects that span clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, making a real impact on society and your career.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Promoting effective collaboration across engineering and functional teams
• Interfacing with customers and suppliers to resolve design issues and support procurement specifications
• Applying procedures, codes and standards to engineering and technical activities
• Communicating task and project risks appropriately
• Contributing to the Product Safety Assessment process

This is a full-time, permanent position working 37 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available, with an expectation of three days on site, based at one of our key locations: Bristol, Warrington (Cheshire), or Humberside (East Yorkshire).

Essential experience of the Process Engineer:

• Working collaboratively in multi-discipline teams across varied project types
• Demonstrating versatility across a range of engineering tasks
• Communicating effectively and interfacing with other disciplines

Qualifications for the Process Engineer:

• Engineering degree (or equivalent qualification) in a relevant engineering discipline, with demonstrable experience

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 Nuclear

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, 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 [e-mail] 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: 05/02/2026

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