Senior Control and Instrumentation Engineer

weServed; Hessle; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday

Matched pension

Digital GP

Annual health check

Nutritional consultations

Employee share scheme

Shopping portal

Professional Fees paid

Reservist leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Employee assistance

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear seeks a Senior Control and Instrumentation Engineer to lead design, integration and delivery of high-integrity systems for nuclear and regulated projects. The role offers hybrid working between Grimsby or Hessle offices with occasional travel.

The successful candidate will ensure compliance with safety standards, collaborate across disciplines, and support testing, commissioning and handover to achieve reliable performance. Security clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, engineering and delivering control and instrumentation systems within nuclear, defence, energy, process or other highly regulated industries.
• Strong knowledge of functional safety and relevant standards (IEC 61508/61511) or equivalent.
• Experience with PLCs, SCADA, DCS and field instrumentation technologies.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing and integrating control and instrumentation systems for complex nuclear and highly regulated projects.
• Ensuring compliance with nuclear safety requirements, technical standards and regulatory expectations.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to develop innovative technical solutions and resolve engineering challenges.
• Supporting testing, verification, commissioning and handover activities to deliver reliable operations.
• Engaging with clients, regulators and suppliers to deliver technical requirements.

Skills

Functional safety

Nuclear safety

PLCs

SCADA

DCS

Stakeholder mgmt

Team collaboration

Education

Electrical/Control/Instrumentation degree

Tools

PLCs

SCADA

DCS

Job description

Job Title: Senior Control and Instrumentation Engineer

Location: North-East Lincolnshire or Hull + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF 75850

Shape the Future of Nuclear Engineering and 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 a Senior Control and Instrumentation Engineer at our Grimsby office or Hessle office, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

The role

As a Senior Control and Instrumentation Engineer, you'll play a leading role in the design, integration and delivery of high-integrity control and instrumentation systems across complex nuclear and highly regulated projects.

This role is full time working 37 hours per week and can be based at our Grimsby office in North East Lincolnshire or our Hessle office in Hull. Hybrid working patterns are available, and occasional travel to other business and customer sites may be required.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Designing, developing and integrating control and instrumentation systems for complex nuclear and highly regulated projects.
• Ensuring compliance with nuclear safety requirements, technical standards, quality procedures and regulatory expectations.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams to develop innovative technical solutions and resolve engineering challenges.
• Supporting testing, verification, commissioning and handover activities to deliver reliable operational performance.
• Engaging with clients, regulators, suppliers and stakeholders to ensure technical requirements are delivered successfully.

Essential experience of the Senior Control and Instrumentation Engineer

• Proven experience designing, engineering and delivering control and instrumentation systems within nuclear, defence, energy, process or other highly regulated industries.
• Strong knowledge of functional safety, nuclear safety requirements and industry standards such as IEC 61508, IEC 61511 or equivalent.
• Experience working with PLCs, SCADA systems, Distributed Control Systems and field instrumentation technologies.
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams and manage relationships with clients, suppliers and key stakeholders.
• Experience supporting engineering projects through design, testing, commissioning, technical documentation and lifecycle management.

Qualifications for the Senior Control and Instrumentation Engineer

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering, Instrumentation or a related discipline.

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

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: 22/09/2026

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