EC&I Technician

Location:Carlisle, GB, CA20 1PG

Company: Cavendish Nuclear

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Electrical and Instrumentation Technician - E&I
Location: Sellafield, North West England, UK
Compensation: Up to £45,000 DOE + Regular OT if needed + Benefits
Role Type: Full time and Permanent
Role ID: 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 Technician at our Sellafield site.

The role
As an Electrical and Instrumentation Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll be integral to the repair, maintenance, calibration, and testing of EC&I components within Radiation Protection Instruments to ensure our customer’s project demands are met in accordance with quality and safety standards.

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

This is a full time position, based onsite at Sellafield.


Experience of the Electrical and Instrumentation Technician:

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

Qualifications for the Electrical and Instrumentation Technician:

• 5 GCSEs (at Grade C or above) including English, a Science subject, and Maths at minimum of Grade B

Security Clearance
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 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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 Nuclear
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@babcockinternational.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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