Electrical Control and Instrumentation Engineering Lead

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP access

Employee share scheme

Shopping savings portal

Payment of professional fees

Reservists leave

Be Kind Day

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International, is seeking an Electrical Control and Instrumentation Engineering Lead to drive delivery across UK modular reactor and nuclear sectors. This full-time role is remote with occasional travel to the North‑West of England, 37 hours per week, and a focus on safety, quality and technical leadership.

You will lead electrical, control and instrumentation teams, ensuring robust design and compliance while developing your career in a dynamic defence,

Qualifications

• Degree (or equivalent) in Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineering or related discipline.
• Chartered Engineer status or working towards it.
• Experience leading engineering teams to deliver analysis and technical outputs across complex projects.
• Experience with engineering assurance, quality standards and regulatory compliance.
• Effective communication with stakeholders across multiple disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi‑disciplinary engineering teams to deliver complex projects on time and to scope.
• Oversee electrical, control and instrumentation engineering assurance, ensuring quality, compliance and technical excellence.
• Review and approve technical outputs such as calculations, specifications and reports.
• Build strong relationships with customers and stakeholders to support delivery and future growth.
• Promote collaboration, safety and best practice across engineering teams.

Skills

Chartered Engineer

Engineering leadership

EC&I engineering

Stakeholder communication

Education

Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineering degree

Job description

Electrical Control and Instrumentation Engineering Lead

Location: GB

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Shape The Future Of Clean Energy And Power The Next Generation Of Nuclear Innovation

At Cavendish Nuclear, we are working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Electrical Control and Instrumentation Engineering Lead remotely at any of our main UK locations, with occasional travel to sites in the North-West of England.

The Role

As an Electrical Control and Instrumentation (EC&I) Engineering Lead, you will take on a pivotal leadership role at the heart of the UK’s fast‑evolving modular reactor and advanced nuclear sector. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to nationally significant programmes that are redefining how clean energy is generated, deployed, and sustained.

You will lead technical delivery across electrical, control and instrumentation engineering, ensuring robust, high‑quality outcomes that support safe, efficient and innovative nuclear solutions. Working in a dynamic, fast‑moving environment, you will help shape future power station design while developing your career in one of the most exciting areas of defence, aerospace and engineering.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week, based remotely, with occasional travel to sites in the North‑West of England.

Day‑to‑day, you will be required to:

• Lead multi‑disciplinary engineering teams to deliver complex projects on time and to scope
• Oversee electrical, control and instrumentation engineering assurance, ensuring quality, compliance, and technical excellence
• Review and approve technical outputs such as calculations, specifications, and reports
• Build strong relationships with customers and stakeholders to support delivery and future growth
• Promote collaboration, safety, and best practice across engineering teams

Essential experience of the EC&I Engineering Lead

• Demonstrating extensive engineering experience within a relevant discipline, supported by a degree or equivalent qualification
• Holding Chartered Engineer status or working towards it
• Leading engineering teams to deliver analysis and technical outputs across complex projects
• Ensuring engineering assurance, quality standards, and regulatory compliance
• Communicating effectively with stakeholders across multiple disciplines

Qualifications of the EC&I Engineering Lead

• Degree (or equivalent) in Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineering or a related discipline (essential)
• 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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