Electrical and Instrumentation Technician

weServed; Carlisle; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Professional fees paid

Be Kind Day

Holiday Trading

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking an Electrical and Instrumentation Technician to join at the Sellafield site near Seascale and Egremont, Cumbria. You will repair, maintain, calibrate and test radiation protection instruments to ensure safety, accuracy, and regulatory compliance.

This permanent full-time role involves 37 hours per week, with a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for mentoring and development. Security clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Level 3 electrical qualification required.
• Apprenticeship or equivalent training in electronic, electrical, instrumentation.

Responsibilities

• Repair, maintain, calibrate and test radiation protection instruments to meet customer work demands.
• Maintain instructions and record information accurately.
• Conform to local procedures and regulatory requirements; provide progress updates to customers.

Education

Level 3 Electrical Qualification

Apprenticeship or equivalent training (Electronic, Electrical, Instrumentation)

Job description

Job Title: Electrical and Instrumentation Technician
Location: Seascale, Cumbria
Compensation: Up to £43,770 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time and Permanent
Role ID: SF59972

Be Part of Nuclear Safety Excellence

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. 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 are at the heart of our operations—responsible for the repair, maintenance, calibration, and testing of Radiation Protection Instruments. Your work ensures 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 meet customer work demands

• 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 customers as required
• Act as a mentor for other team members, including apprentices and new entrants, to ensure standards and best practices are maintained

This permanent role offers 37 hours per week and is based at our Sellafield site, close to Seascale and Egremont in Cumbria.

Essential experience of the E&I Technician:

• Knowledge and understanding of conventional and nuclear safety
• Proven experience servicing electronic instrument systems

Qualifications for the E&I Technician:

• Level 3 Electrical Qualification

• Apprenticeship or equivalent training in a relevant discipline (e.g., Electronic, Electrical, Instrumentation, Technology)

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 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 Nuclear

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.

Closing Date: 21/09/2026