Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

Location:

Bristol or Warrington, Cheshire. Hybrid working arrangement. Full time, permanent. Role .

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will deliver high-impact systems engineering across a major long-term nuclear programme, leading and directing activities across complex programmes, allocating tasks, mentoring junior engineers, delivering hands-on systems engineering including requirements, architecture, and integration, and leading and contributing to technical and design reviews with key stakeholders.

• Lead and direct systems engineering activities across complex programmes.
• Allocate tasks and oversee delivery from a team of systems engineers.
• Mentor and support junior engineers to grow capability across the team.
• Deliver hands-on systems engineering including requirements, architecture, and integration.
• Lead and contribute to technical and design reviews with key stakeholders.

• Strong systems engineering experience across requirements engineering, system architecture, integration, verification and validation.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers within engineering teams.
• Experience working on complex, multidisciplinary engineering programmes.
• Experience reviewing technical outputs and leading engineering or design reviews.
• Applying full lifecycle systems engineering expertise.

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Chartered Engineer status or working towards chartership (desirable).

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

• Generous holiday allowance.
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
• Holiday trading benefit allowing UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave.
• 'Be Kind Day' enabling employees to take one paid leave day a year to undertake volunteering work.
• Excellent development opportunities and employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please contact car with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We are 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.

04/06/2026