Electrical Control and Instrumentation Production Engineer

weServed ofVeterans Ltd.; Whetstone; A distancia; GBP 50.000 - 70.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Private medical/health benefits

Descripción de la vacante

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking an Electrical Control and Instrumentation Production Engineer at our Leicester site. You will deliver specialist electrical and electronic equipment for highly regulated nuclear environments, supporting assembly, testing, and production planning to ensure quality and safety.

Key duties include fault investigation, root-cause analysis, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives. Travel to customer sites may be required; SC security clearance is required.

Formación

• Experience in a highly regulated production/manufacturing environment.
• Experience producing engineering documentation or production plans.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and SAP/ERP systems.

Responsabilidades

• Support technicians with assembly, wiring, and testing of electrical/electronic equipment.
• Create production plans and SAP routings for assembly, inspection and testing.
• Deliver toolbox talks and promote learning from experience across production.
• Investigate faults, determine root causes and write detailed reports.
• Drive continuous improvement to maximise efficiency and quality.

Conocimientos

Regulated production

Engineering documentation

Lean manufacturing

Fault investigation

Educación

Higher National Certificate in Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Herramientas

SAP

Descripción del empleo

Job Title: Electrical Control and Instrumentation Production Engineer

Location: Leicester, Leicestershire

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74011

Help build technology that supports safety, security and critical national infrastructure

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 Control and Instrumentation Production Engineer at our Leicester, Leicestershire site.

The role

As an Electrical Control and Instrumentation (EC&I) Production Engineer, you'll play a vital role in delivering specialist electrical and electronic equipment used within highly regulated nuclear environments.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Supporting technicians with the assembly, wiring and testing of electrical and electronic equipment.
• Creating production plans and SAP routings covering assembly, inspection and testing activities.
• Delivering toolbox talks and promoting learning from experience activities across the production environment.
• Investigating faults, identifying root causes and producing detailed technical reports and recommendations.
• Driving continuous improvement activities to maximise efficiency, quality and operational performance.

This role is based at Whetstone, Leicester. You will work 37 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 07:30–16:15 and Friday 07:30–12:00. Occasional travel to customer and subcontractor sites will be expected.

Essential experience of the EC&I Production Engineer:

• Experience working within a highly regulated production, manufacturing, assembly or test environment.
• Experience producing engineering documentation, manufacturing instructions or production plans.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Material Requirements Planning software, ideally SAP.
• Experience supporting continuous improvement initiatives and Lean manufacturing practices.
• Ability to investigate technical faults and provide effective engineering solutions

Qualifications for the EC&I Production Engineer:

• Higher National Certificate in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering or a related discipline with significant relevant industry experience.

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 FeesReservists 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

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: 23/11/2026

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