Senior Electrical Control and Instrumentation Engineer

Job Title: Senior Electrical Control and Instrumentation Engineer

Location: Flexible UK Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72509

Bring Your Skills to Projects That Help Create a Safer World.

At Cavendish Nuclear were working to create a safe and secure world together and if you join us you can play your part as a Senior Electrical Control and Instrumentation Engineer at one of our main Cavendish sites.

The role

As a Senior Electrical Control and Instrumentation (EC&I) Engineer youll have a role thats out of the ordinary. Youll play a vital leadership role in delivering highintegrity engineering solutions within highly regulated safetycritical nuclear environments. Your expertise will directly support safe plant operations regulatory compliance and longterm infrastructure resilience.

Day-to-day youll be required to:

• Leading the design specification and integration of electrical control and instrumentation systems for nuclear projects
• Delivering technically robust solutions that meet safety quality and regulatory standards
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across engineering safety commissioning and project management
• Engaging with regulators clients and supply chain partners to ensure full technical and regulatory alignment
• Producing and reviewing highquality technical documentation calculations and safety case contributions.

This is a fulltime role working 37 hours per week based at any of our main Cavendish locations including Warrington Bristol Leicester Humberside or Cumbria. Hybrid working patterns are available with a minimum of working 3 days on site.

Essential experience of the Senior EC&I Engineer:

• Proven experience designing and delivering EC&I systems within regulated or safetycritical environments
• Strong knowledge of nuclear or comparable industry standards including functional safety requirements
• Experience working across complex engineering projects from concept through delivery
• Confidence interfacing with internal teams and external stakeholders to resolve technical challenges
• Track record of producing highquality auditable technical outputs

Qualifications for the Senior EC&I Engineer:

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Electrical Control Instrumentation or Systems Engineering
• Professional registration or working toward chartership is advantageous

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - ()

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 days 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

Were Cavendish Nuclear a team of c5000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here youll 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 were 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 with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. Were committed to building an inclusive culture where everyones free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 30/04/2026

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