Job Title: Field Mechanical Technician
Location: Various Sites
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70748
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. You’ll operate at the heart of clean energy and national resilience, building, maintaining and restoring 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:
- Proven 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 associated rotating equipment.
- Confident with permits to work, isolations/LOTO and working to 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 (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 Nuclear
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 06/02/2026
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