Senior Control and Instrumentation Engineer

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.
• 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 (

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.

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.

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