Job Description

Job Title: Systems Engineer

Location: Bristol or Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72947

Shape The Future of Nuclear Engineering

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 Systems Engineer, at our Bristol or Warrington, Cheshire site.

The role

As a Systems Engineer you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll join a growing and dynamic systems engineering team delivering critical work across a major nuclear programme.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to

• Delivering systems engineering activities including requirements engineering, system design and integration planning
• Supporting technical reviews and contributing to system development across the project lifecycle
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure integrated solutions
• Managing requirements, assumptions, and risks to support successful project outcomes
• Working as part of a specialist systems engineering team within a larger programme environment

This full-time role is based across our Bristol or Warrington sites working a 37-hour week, with hybrid working patterns available.

Essential experience of the Systems Engineer:

• Experience in requirements engineering, systems architecture, interface management, or integration, verification and validation
• Demonstrable experience working within multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Understanding of the full engineering or project lifecycle
• Experience supporting technical reviews and engineering governance processes
• Familiarity with requirements management tools or structured systems engineering approaches

Qualifications for the Systems Engineer:

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent industry experience
• Awareness of systems engineering standards such as those developed by the International Council on Systems Engineering is 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 04/06/2026

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