Process Engineering Manager
The advert says the job needs UK security clearance:
“The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.”
SC clearance usually needs five years of living in the UK, and DV clearance usually needs ten. If you have lived here that long, for example on a Student and then a Graduate visa, you may be able to get it. Most people applying from outside the UK cannot, so the highest likelihood we give this job is Unlikely. Ask Cavendish Nuclear whether they would sponsor you.
Unlikely
Sponsorship likelihood
The advert asks for security clearance
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£51,900
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2127 (65% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £51,900, and Cavendish Nuclear is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
We pick the code from the advert's text, so it is our best guess, not the employer's. Each code it could be has its own likelihood:
- Unlikely 2127 (Engineering project managers and project engineers) · 65% match
- Unlikely 2125 (Production and process engineers) · 25% match
- Unlikely 1121 (Production managers and directors in manufacturing) · 6% match
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2127 Engineering project managers and project engineers Most likely code | £36,300 | £41,500 | £46,700 | £51,900 |
2125 Production and process engineers Also possible | £33,400 | £36,000 | £40,500 | £45,000 |
1121 Production managers and directors in manufacturing Also possible | £38,500 | £44,000 | £49,500 | £55,000 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
Location: Warrington or Preston + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 72964
Lead complex engineering projects that shape the future of nuclear infrastructure
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 Process Engineering Manager at our Warrington or Preston sites.
The role
As a Process Engineering Manager, you'll provide leadership across complex engineering programmes, guiding projects from concept and design through to delivery and commissioning.
Day-to-day, You’ll Be Required To
- Leading and coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver projects safely, on time, and within budget.
- Managing engineering activities throughout the full project lifecycle, from concept design through to construction and delivery.
- Collaborating with customers, stakeholders, and project teams to resolve complex technical and delivery challenges.
- Ensuring engineering outputs comply with quality, safety, regulatory, and technical assurance requirements.
- Developing engineering capability through mentoring, resource planning, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Essential Experience Of The Process Engineering Manager
- Proven experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams on complex process-led projects.
- Strong background within chemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, oil and gas, or similarly regulated industries.
- Degree, or equivalent qualification, in Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- Chartered Engineer status or working towards professional registration.
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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.
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 [email protected] 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: 29/10/2026
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Where this offer sits in the market
Engineering project managers and project engineers (SOC 2127) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~68k in sample- Middle half £42,848–67,132
- Median £51,324
- Going rate £51,900
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £36,300–46,700
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. Cavendish Nuclear holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2127 going rate of £51,900. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.