[Hiring] Modular Reactor Civil and Structural Lead @Babcock

Role Description

The UK’s small and advanced modular reactor sector is entering a pivotal phase, with major programmes progressing and strong government backing. Join us as a Modular Reactor Civil and Structural Lead at the centre of this momentum and build your career across the nuclear and defence sector.

We’re seeking a Modular Reactor Civil and Structural Lead to join our Advanced Nuclear Technologies team, working in a fast‑moving, innovation‑led environment with real national impact. You’ll help shape the next generation of nuclear power through cutting‑edge design, accelerated deployment and projects that strengthen the UK’s long‑term energy resilience. If you want your work to matter at scale, this is the role for you.

The role is full time, working 37 hours per week, and can be undertaken remotely with occasional travel to Cavendish Nuclear and customer sites in the north‑west of England.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading civil and structural engineering assurance activities to ensure technical quality, compliance, and safety.
• Managing multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver agreed technical scope on time and to standard.
• Reviewing and approving calculations, analyses, reports, specifications, and method statements.
• Engaging with customers and stakeholders to build trusted relationships and resolve technical or delivery challenges.
• Promoting the highest standards of health, safety, ethics, and collaborative working across all engineering activities.

Qualifications

• A recognised engineering degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline or Chartered Engineer status.

Requirements

• Demonstrating senior‑level experience within civil and structural engineering, ideally in regulated or complex environments.
• Providing technical leadership and assurance across design and engineering delivery.
• Working across a range of engineering scopes and technical complexities.
• Operating in customer‑facing roles with confidence and professionalism.
• Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

Benefits

• 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 allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year 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.

Company Description

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.

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: 05/05/2026