Rigger, Engineering

Job Title:
Rigger

Location:

Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset
Vacancies:
Multiple Positions Available

Compensation: ECSA pay rates + Excellent Benefits
Role Type:
Full time / Permanent
Role

Ready to Trade Up? Join Cavendish Nuclear as a Rigger on Dayshift or Night shift at Hinkley Point C and access competitive ECSA pay rates, enhanced overtime rates (when available) excellent benefits, and long‑term career growth.

Are you an experienced Rigger ready to Trade Up for your next adventure? Cavendish Nuclear are seeking skilled Day Shift and Night Shift Riggers to join our team on the prestigious Hinkley Point C project. This is your opportunity to step up to one of the UK’s most significant engineering projects and contribute to building the country’s first‑ever 3rd generation nuclear power plant, shaping a sustainable future.

Want the biggest projects? Want ECSA pay rates? Want job security? Trade Up.
We offer a competitive salary aligned with ECSA pay rates and an exceptional benefits package that includes a generous holiday allowance, contributory pension scheme, 22.5% night shift allowance, and more.

• Play a pivotal role in building the UK's clean energy future.
• Work within the MEH Alliance, collaborating effectively to deliver complex piping and cabling systems.
• Plan and manage lifts using subcontracted mobile cranes (including very heavy lifts cranes).
• Operate overhead cranes.
• Establish and execute complex lifting operations and critical tasks.
• Carry out structural steelwork erection and rigging activities.
• Work on arrangement / isometric drawings.

• Experience following lift plans and working with mobile and/ or overhead cranes. Experience in establishing and executing heavy and complex lifting operations components such as pressure piping, pressure vessels, tanks, headers, drums and structural steelwork.

• Must hold a full Level 3 Apprenticeship in Moving Loads, Lifting and Position Steel Structures, Plant or Equipment or Steel Erection, or Level 3 Diploma in Moving Loads, Lifting and Position Steel Structures, Plant or Equipment or Steel Erection.
• Must have a CCNSG Safety Passport.