Electrical and Instrumentation Technician

Overview

Job Title: Electrical and Instrumentation Technician
Location: Seascale, Cumbira
Compensation: Up to £45,000 DOE + Regular OT if needed + Benefits
Role Type: Full time and Permanent
Role : SF59972

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 an Electrical and Instrumentation (E&I) Technician at the Sellafield site, near Seascale and Egremont, Cumbria.

As an E&I Technician, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of our operations—responsible for the repair, maintenance, calibration, and testing of Radiation Protection Instruments. Your work will ensure that critical systems meet the highest standards of safety, accuracy, and compliance.

Day to day, you’ll repair, maintain, calibrate and test radiation protection instruments to ensure customer work demands are met.

• Work to maintain instructions and record information accurately
• Conform to local procedures, rules and working practices to ensure compliance with specified regulatory and customer requirements
• Provide technical advice, updates on work progress and other relevant information to customer as required
• Act as a mentor for other team members as required, including apprentices and new entrants to department to ensure standards and best practices are maintained

• Apprenticeship or equivalent training in relevant discipline (e.g. Electronic, Electrical, Instrumentation, Technology disciplines)
• Knowledge and understanding of conventional and nuclear safety
• Proven experience of servicing electronic instrument systems

• Level 3 Electrical Qualification

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

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels -

• 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 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.

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan.

Work with us to create a safe and secure world, 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 at babcockinternational dot 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.

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