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General Information

Name
Engineering Manager
Ref #
14428
Posting Date
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Country
United Kingdom
Region
Oxfordshire
City
Abingdon
Business Unit (BU)
OP
Type of Employment
Permanent/Regular
Desired Starting Date
01-06-2026
Work Schedule
Full time
Remote Work
Hybrid
Job
TA - STUDIES & DESIGN

Description

Description

What Orano can offer you 

Here at Orano limited we value the contribution you make, which is why we’re committed to supporting you financial, physical and mental wellbeing with flexible benefits that matter to you and your family. Some of our benefits include: 

  • 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
  • Additional 1 day off for every 1-year service, capped at 5 
  • Competitive salary
  • One Professional Membership subscription paid for by the company 
  • Support for Chartership goals
  • Private medical insurance
  • Annual Bonus Scheme 
  • Employee non-contribution pension scheme 
  • Enhanced Maternity Pay
  • Group Income Protection 
  • Group Life Insurance
  • Free on-site parking 
  • Sports Membership allowance 
  • Buying and selling annual leave scheme


The Engineering Manager will organise, lead, coordinate and direct a multi-discipline design engineering team (including technical, safety case and supply chain as applicable) that delivers engineering work packages (specification, analysis, verification or assessment of engineering).

 Orano is currently employed in a number of fast-paced and exciting projects for the design of nuclear gloveboxes for analysis and R&D work, including handling of SNM and MoX material. This work is for a number of different clients in the UK and the candidate will be deployed onto one of these. Experience in nuclear glovebox design, commissioning or operations would be a benefit. Experience in SNM or MoX plants would also be a benefit.


The candidate must be comfortable working on UK defence projects.  
Location: Warrington or Abingdon (hybrid)

Accountabilities:

  • Ensuring work portfolio is delivered and controlled efficiently and effectively to meet agreed specification, cost and schedule.
  • Ensuring design solutions are fit for purpose, integrated, affordable and deliver the business case, functional specification and project execution plan.
  • Ensuring all technical, safety and engineering risks are identified, owned and managed.
  • Ensuring status and performance of work is accurately and timely reported.
  • Ensuring appropriate and adequate design standards and practices are deployed and deliverables and solutions generated are safe, legal and adequately underpinned.
  • Ensuring competent people are deployed and periodic forecasting of resources are accurate and timely.
  • Ensuring design resource strategy is implemented within portfolio.
  • Ensuring design key roles are filled with SQEPped and competent people and the duties of the CDM coordinator adequately discharged.
  • Ensuring subject matter experts are appropriately and adequately engaged in a timely manner and LFE is captured, disseminated and utilised.


Authorities:

  • To work within financial delegations.
  • To assign approval of technical content of design deliverables to competent persons or groups.
  • To make recommendations on make / buy decisions and selection /appointment and agreement of supply chain organisation.
  • To approve the engineering strategy, cost estimate and schedule for specific areas of responsibility.
  • Prioritisation and allocation of work assignments for team and production of design deliverables.
Requirements

Qualifications:

Minimum – BEng (Hons)

Preferred – MEng (Hons)

Professional Membership:

Chartered Engineer (CEng) of Fellow (FEng)

NOTE: Equivalent experience can be offered in lieu of chartership if it is deemed appropriate by the Head of Engineering

Experience:

  • 7 years within the previous 10 years working in roles where knowledge of engineering was a key attribute. In addition, the last 5 years will have been working within a regulated and quality assured system (preferably nuclear) in roles where professional engineering judgement is the key attribute.
  • Preferred requirement - 8 years within the last 10 years in engineering design.
  • Experience of chairing governance reviews, design reviews and any other gate reviews to accept designs, strategies and provide technical governance.

Additional:

The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the UK, and be willing to undergo a security vetting process. Offers of employment will be subject to relevant security clearance being granted. 

Close working relationships with other Orano sites and client sites may be required, which necessitates regular travel to those sites (dependent upon project & client requirements).

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary
  • Private Medical Insurance at Single, Partner and Family levels
  • Non Contributory Pension Scheme
  • 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) increasing by 1 day per year of service up to a cap of 30
  • Group Life Assurance of 4 times annual salary and Group Income Protection scheme for long term sickness
  • Enhanced Maternity Pay

Orano Group

Working on current and future challenges to power and preserve our world, build the one of tomorrow, and improve life for our communities - that’s exciting for you. For us, too. By joining Orano, a leading international player in the nuclear sector, you’re in the right place.


Every day, employees at Orano work to produce efficient and reliable nuclear energy, fight climate change, find solutions that conserve natural resources, and advance progress in healthcare.


Our strengths are throughout the entire nuclear fuel cycle: mastery of cutting-edge technologies, safe and high value-added products and services, specialized expertise, and strong innovation capabilities. These are just some of the qualities that showcase the exceptional skills of our 18,000 employees and their continuous learning, which we support. Diverse in profiles and experience - proof of our openness to all talent - they share the same ambition: to unlock the full value of nuclear energy.

Location Details

Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom