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 we’re 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, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a vital leadership role in delivering high‑integrity engineering solutions within highly regulated, safety‑critical nuclear environments. Your expertise will directly support safe plant operations, regulatory compliance, and long‑term infrastructure resilience.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Delivering electrical, control and instrumentation engineering solutions across complex nuclear and defence projects


• Producing high‑quality EC&I deliverables including control philosophies, requirements specifications, interlock definitions and software management plans


• Managing engineers and designers to ensure accurate, compliant and timely production of technical outputs


• Supporting hazard studies, design risk assessments and regulatory assurance activities


• Working closely with project managers, safety teams, customers and supply chain partners to integrate solutions successfully

This is a full‑time role working 37 hours per week, based at any of our main Cavendish locations including Glasgow, Leicester, Bristol, Newbury, Warrington. Hybrid working patterns are available, with a minimum of working 3 days on site.

Essential experience of the Senior EC&I Engineer:

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  Strong experience delivering EC&I engineering within regulated or safety‑critical environments
  
  


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  Proven background working with control systems, automation or instrumentation solutions
  
  


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  Experience supporting nuclear, defence, energy or comparable highly regulated industries
  
  


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  Ability to manage technical deliverables and support multidisciplinary project teams
  
  


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  Clear understanding of safety, quality and compliance obligations
  
  

Qualifications for the Senior EC&I Engineer:

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  Degree‑qualified in Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering or a related discipline
  
  


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  Chartered Engineer status or progress toward professional registration 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 - 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.

Cavendish

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

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: 16/06/2026

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