Role
Job Title: Lifting Engineer
Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 74103
The role
As a Lifting Engineer, you will take ownership of the planning and delivery of complex lifting operations within one of the UK’s most significant nuclear construction projects. This is a full‑time role, working 37 hours per week and based at our Hinkley Point C site.
Day‑to‑day responsibilities
- Producing detailed lift plans, procedures and coordination studies for complex operations
- Selecting appropriate lifting methods, cranes and equipment to meet safety and project requirements
- Ensuring compliance with nuclear safety standards, legislation and site‑specific procedures
- Briefing lifting teams and supervisors to ensure full understanding of plans and safe systems of work
- Identifying hazards, resolving constraints and supporting safe, integrated delivery across site activities
Essential experience
- Experience producing lift plans within major construction or infrastructure projects
- Strong knowledge of lifting operations, rigging and crane planning
- Understanding of health, safety and compliance standards in high‑risk environments
- Effective communication with multidisciplinary teams and site stakeholders
- Coordinating activities and prioritising workload within complex project environments
Qualifications and benefits
- CPCS Appointed Person (A61) Blue Card
- NVQ Level 3 in steel erecting or moving loads
- 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 benefit allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave from their entitlement. This window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ allows 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
Why join us
We’re Cavendish Nuclear – a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. 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, with meaningful careers that respect work‑life balance.
Inclusive Employment
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.
