Senior EC&I Designer

Job Title: Senior EC&I Designer
Location: Either Warrington or Preston + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent or Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF59217

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 Senior EC&I Designer, at either of our Warrington or Preston sites.

The Role

As a Senior Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Designer you'll provide support and technical guidance for a team of designers. The role will assure the quality of output to the required standards consistent with the whole lifecycle from concept to in-service support.

Day-to-day, you'll provide specialist technical advice and guidance, ensuring design governance for technical standards for a team. You'll work with a high degree of technical autonomy and promote effective co-operation across Design and other functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Allocate discipline tasks to the allocated team of Designers, check team drawing outputs, and ensure inter-discipline coordination in accordance with company and regulatory standards.
• Assist in effective management of the customer, including liaison and relationship development with existing and new customers, to aid the development of business, resolution of technical and delivery issues, ensuring the customer is fully briefed and informed of progress.
• Contribute to the preparation/production of drawings in support of basic, detail, and production design in line with recognised ISO standards and to the required time, cost, and quality requirements.
• Assist in the resolution of Production & Technical Queries & development of discipline solutions for the team in relation to manufacturing & installation issues.
• Develop innovative design solutions, and fulfil Design Lead responsibilities as assigned for multi-discipline low-risk projects.
• Maintain awareness of developments within the industry, particularly for techniques & tools, physical integration, bill of material controls & management of design maturity.

Essential Experience

• Experience in a detailed design environment.
• Good knowledge of CAD tools.
• Knowledge of General Engineering Drawing Practice.

Qualifications

• HNC/HND minimum in a relevant discipline OR equivalent academic qualification.

Benefits

• 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 available, allowing employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave from their entitlement.
• '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.

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence, and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we're innovating to make nuclear safer, faster, and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group - from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, 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 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.