Construction Piping Engineer

Babcock International; Taunton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched pension

Digital GP access

Share scheme

Shopping portal

Professional Fees paid

Reservists leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

EAP

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear, part of the Babcock International Group, is seeking a Construction Piping Engineer for the Hinkley Point C site. You’ll lead piping and mechanical construction work packages and coordinate with engineering teams and contractors to ensure compliant, construction-ready documentation.

This role is on-site at Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, with a Monday–Friday pattern and accommodation/travel expenses paid. You’ll champion nuclear safety and quality throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering mechanical and piping systems on large-scale construction or engineering projects.
• Experience in regulated sectors such as nuclear, power generation, oil and gas, defence, rail or petrochemical.
• Strong understanding of construction work packages, technical documentation and installation processes.
• Experience coordinating contractors, engineers and client stakeholders across complex project environments.
• Knowledge of safe systems of work and a strong commitment to health, safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Leading the development and delivery of piping and mechanical construction work packages to support site installation activities.
• Coordinating with engineering teams, contractors and client stakeholders to ensure documentation is accurate, compliant and construction-ready.
• Supporting and guiding construction personnel, providing technical expertise to enable safe and efficient project delivery.
• Monitoring progress against project schedules and prioritising key deliverables to achieve programme milestones.
• Championing nuclear safety, quality standards and continuous improvement throughout the construction lifecycle.

Skills

Piping systems delivery

Construction coordination

Nuclear safety

Project scheduling

Technical documentation

Education

Engineering qualification

Job description

Location:

Taunton, GB, TA5 1UD

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Construction Piping Engineer

Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF 73917

Make a Positive Difference in Communities While Supporting Projects That Matter

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 Construction Piping Engineer at our Hinkley Point C site.

This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance work across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main Mechanical, Electrical, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (MEH), cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station’s vast network of rooms.

The role

As a Construction Piping Engineer, you'll play a key role in the successful delivery of one of Europe's largest and most complex engineering programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading the development and delivery of piping and mechanical construction work packages to support site installation activities.
• Coordinating with engineering teams, contractors and client stakeholders to ensure documentation is accurate, compliant and construction-ready.
• Supporting and guiding construction personnel, providing technical expertise to enable safe and efficient project delivery.
• Monitoring progress against project schedules and prioritising key deliverables to achieve programme milestones.
• Championing nuclear safety, quality standards and continuous improvement throughout the construction lifecycle.

This is a full-time, onsite role based at Hinkley Point C. The working pattern is Monday to Friday. Accommodation and travel expenses are paid.

Essential experience of the Construction Piping Engineer:

• Proven experience delivering mechanical and piping systems on large-scale construction or engineering projects.
• Experience working within highly regulated sectors such as nuclear, power generation, oil and gas, defence, rail or petrochemical industries.
• Strong understanding of construction work packages, technical documentation and installation processes.
• Experience coordinating contractors, engineers and client stakeholders across complex project environments.
• Knowledge of safe systems of work and a strong commitment to health, safety and quality standards.

Qualifications for the Construction Piping Engineer:

• Relevant engineering qualification or equivalent industry experience.
• 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.

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 [e-mail] 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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