Principal Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineer

Job Title: Principal EC&I Engineer
Location: Preston, Cumbria or Warrington + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive Salary & Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF

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 Principal EC&I Engineer, at either our Preston or Warrington sites.

The Role

As a Principal EC&I Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role sits within our Cavendish Nuclear business, from decommissioning redundant nuclear facilities, through supporting the Continuous at Sea Deterrent, to supporting the operation and build of nuclear power plants. Our role in Cavendish Nuclear is to clean up the nuclear legacy and create a world where nuclear plays a key contribution in protecting our nation, ensuring security of energy supply and meeting our net zero commitments.

Responsibilities

1. Manage the delivery of engineering and technical activities through the application of process, domain knowledge, and experience across our projects.
2. Assist in effective management of the customer, through interfacing with customers and supply chain on design issues and assisting with procurement specifications.
3. Ensure procedures, codes, and standards are correctly identified and applied to engineering and technical activities.
4. Ensure that adequate review, verification, and approval is undertaken on all deliverables and for those under direct control and supervision.
5. Carry out technical investigations and analysis to provide data for problem assessment/resolution and for design improvements.
6. Produce, review, and verify outputs including calculations, analyses, technical reports, technical specifications, and method statements.
7. Act as Technical Authority or Engineering Lead when authorized to do so.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential Experience

1. Experience in working collaboratively in multi-discipline teams to deliver activities on a range of project types.
2. Demonstrable experience in covering a variety of tasks.
3. Communications skills and the ability to interface with other disciplines.

Essential Qualifications

1. Engineering degree (or equivalent qualification) in a relevant engineering discipline, with demonstrable experience.
2. Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

What We Offer

1. Generous holiday allowance.
2. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
3. Employee share scheme.
4. Employee shopping savings portal.
5. Payment of Professional Fees.
6. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
7. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
8. ‘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.

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