Field Mechanical Technician

Babcock International Group; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering services company is seeking a Field Mechanical Technician for various sites across the UK. The role involves ensuring high-integrity mechanical systems operate safely and efficiently, preparing tools, and maintaining documentation. Candidates should have relevant experience and a Level 3 engineering qualification. This full-time position includes a competitive salary, overtime pay, and generous benefits including development opportunities, matched pension contributions, and holiday trading.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a mechanical technician or mechanical maintenance role.
• Strong skills on pumps, valves, gearboxes and related equipment.
• Confident with permits, isolations/LOTO in a regulated environment.
• Able to produce clear job records and work from technical procedures.
• Flexible to travel and undertake 12-hour shifts.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and stage tools and equipment for tasks.
• Work safely and escalate when conditions aren't safe.
• Execute work to quality standards and within budget.
• Maintain accurate task documentation.
• Communicate effectively with site teams and customers.

Skills

Fault-finding skills

Maintenance skills

Repair skills

Ability to read engineering drawings

Flexibility to travel and work shifts

Education

Level 3 engineering qualification

Job description

Job Title: Field Mechanical Technician

Location: Various Sites

Compensation: Competitive Salary + overtime and lodge allowance

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

Be The Hands-On Engineer Who Keeps the UK’s Nuclear Power Moving

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 Field Mechanical Technician.

The role

As a Field Mechanical Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. hoped you can practise high‑integrity mechanical systems that keep reactors and turbine halls performing safely and efficiently.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Prepare and stage the right tools, spares and equipment for each task, using site‑supplied tools where appropriate.
• Work safely to legislation, ACoPs and EDF/Cavendish Nuclear procedures—stopping or escalating when conditions aren’t safe.
• Interpret and execute work to required quality standards, finishing within agreed time and budget.
• Create and maintain accurate task documentation and records (for example, Assembly and Test Plans).
• Communicate progress, issues and resolutions clearly with site teams and the customer, asking for support when needed.

Set working times are 37 hours per week: Monday to Wednesday 07:30–18:00, Thursday 07:30–15:00. During outages, you work 12‑hour shifts with paid overtime (time‑and‑a‑half) and a premium (time‑and‑a‑third) for night hours. This is a roving role with regular travel and overnight stays to support EDF power stations at Heysham, Hartlepool and Torness, as well as our Whetstone Manufacturing site; travel and accommodation expenses are provided.

Essential experience of the Field Mechanical Technician:

• Provenárez Experience in a mechanical technician or mechanical maintenance role in an industrial, utilities, energy or manufacturing setting.
• Strong fault‑finding, maintenance and repair skills on pumps, valves, gearboxes and related equipment.
• Confident with permits to work, isolations/LOTO and working empresário RAMS in a highly regulated environment.
• Able to read and work from engineering drawings and technical procedures, producing clear job records.
• Flexible to travel, work shifts (days/nights) and undertake 12‑hour patterns during outages.

Qualifications for the Field Mechanical Technician:

• Level 3 engineering qualification (for example, Advanced Apprenticeship, City & Guilds, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent).

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 (

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.