Job Title: Laboratory Quality Manager
Location: Moor Row, Cumbria + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 72733
Shape Quality. Protect Safety. Enable Confidence In Nuclear Delivery.
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 Laboratory Quality Manager at Greeson Court, in Moor Row, Cumbria.
The role
As a Laboratory Quality Manager, you are leading quality assurance across accredited laboratory operations within a highly regulated, high‑hazard nuclear environment. Your expertise protects safety, ensures compliance, and enables confident decision‑making across complex programmes.
This is a permanent role, 37 hours per week, based full time at Greeson Court in Moor Row, Cumbria. Flexible working options can be discussed where business needs allow.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Leading and prioritising quality management activities using risk and opportunity management tools
- Providing expert advice and guidance on the flow‑down of quality requirements across the supply chain
- Investigating quality events effectively, ensuring lessons learned are identified and shared
- Supporting business winning activities, contributing to tender reviews and quality input
- Coaching and influencing teams at all levels to deliver quality plans and performance targets
Essential experience of the Laboratory Quality Manager:
- Proven experience in quality management within nuclear or another highly regulated, high‑hazard industry
- Demonstrable leadership of ISO 17025 accredited management systems
- Strong experience conducting and leading quality audits
- A track record of influencing stakeholders and driving continuous improvement
Qualifications for the Laboratory Quality Manager:
- Degree in Science or Engineering, or equivalent qualification supported by relevant experience
- Approved Auditor qualification or demonstrable auditing capability
- Professional quality qualifications are advantageous
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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: 14/05/2026
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