Job Title: Quality Lead
Location: Flexible UK
Compensation: Attractive salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71377
Bring Your Commercial Skills to Projects That Help Create a Safer World.
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 Quality Lead.
The role:
As a Quality Lead you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a vital role in ensuring quality excellence across some of the UK’s most exciting and strategically important programmes — including Advanced Modular Reactor (AMR) and Small Modular Reactor (SMR).
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Leading quality across a programme or project, ensuring governance, assurance and compliance are robust and effective.
- Providing subject matter expertise on all quality‑related matters, including risks, issues and continuous improvement.
- Managing, supporting and developing quality personnel, ensuring resources are deployed effectively.
- Developing and maintaining risk‑based audit programmes and overseeing supplier quality arrangements
- Building strong relationships with internal teams, customers and suppliers to support a right‑first‑time quality culture
This is a permanent position, working 37 hours per week, based at any of our main UK locations. Travel to other Cavendish Nuclear or customer sites will be expected.
Essential experience of the Quality Lead:
- Proven background in a regulated industry such as nuclear, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals or automotive.
- Experience influencing at a strategic level, including driving change initiatives.
- Experience working within a partnership or joint‑venture environment.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to build capability and support teams.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Qualifications for the Quality Lead:
- HNC or equivalent in a relevant subject, such as engineering
- ISO 9001 Lead Auditor or Internal Auditor training.
- Membership (or working towards) of the Chartered Quality Institute
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: 07/04/2026
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