Job Title: Quality Delivery Lead
Location: Warrington, Cheshire or Preston, Lancashire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72224
Lead Quality That Shapes the Future of Defence and Clean Energy
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 aQuality Delivery Lead, at our Warrington, Cheshire and Preston, Lancashire sites.
The role
As a Quality Delivery Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will champion quality excellence across a business area that delivers some of the UK's most significant defence and clean energy programmes. This is a highly visible and influential position—one where your leadership will help shape strategy, strengthen delivery performance, and ensure we continue to meet the expectations of our customers, regulators and stakeholders.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to
- Driving the development of the quality strategy for your business area in alignment with the Cavendish Nuclear Quality Strategy.
- Providing coaching, guidance and support to teams at all levels to ensure quality plans are delivered effectively.
- Defining business processes, quality plans and quality targets in partnership with senior stakeholders.
- Ensuring the Business Management System meets all legal, regulatory, customer and shareholder requirements.
- Tailoring and applying the management system for specific projects or activities as required.
This is a full time role, working 37 hours per week. You will be based at either our Warrington or Preston sites with regular travel between the two.
Essential experience of the Quality Delivery Lead:
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry.
- Previous design experience.
- Experience across the full project life cycle.
- Strong stakeholder management ability.
- Experience supporting or implementing quality management systems.
Qualifications for the Quality Delivery Lead:
- Relevant engineering, quality or technical qualification (e.g., degree, HND/HNC or equivalent experience).
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: 20/03/2026
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