Job Title: Electrical and Instrumentation Technician
Location: Seascale, Cumbira
Compensation: Up to £45, DOE + Regular OT if needed + Benefits
Role Type: Full time and Permanent
Role ID: SF
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.
The role
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.
1. Work to maintain instructions and record information accurately
2. Conform to local procedures, rules and working practices to ensure compliance with specified regulatory andcustomer requirements
3. Provide technical advice, updates on work progress and other relevant information to customer as required
4. 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
Experience of the E&I Technician
5. Apprenticeship or equivalent training in relevant discipline (e.g. Electronic, Electrical, Instrumentation, Technology disciplines)
6. Knowledge and understanding of conventional and nuclear safety
7. Proven experience of servicing electronic instrument systems
Qualifications for the E&I Technician
8. Level 3 Electrical Qualification
Security Clearance
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 .
What we offer
9. Generous holiday allowance
10. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
11. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
12. Employee share scheme
13. Employee shopping savings portal
14. Payment of Professional Fees
15. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
16. 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
17. ‘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
18. 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