Job Title: Mechanical Engineer
Location: Torness Power Station, Dunbar, East Lothian
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72928
Shape Safety. Engineer Confidence. Make a Real‑World Impact.
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 aMechanical Engineer at Torness Power Station, Dunbar, East Lothian site.
The role
As a Mechanical Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be a key technical authority supporting operational plant performance within a highly regulated nuclear environment. This is an exciting opportunity to work hands‑on with safety‑critical systems, providing engineering expertise that enables safe, reliable and compliant operations.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Ensure compliance with nuclear safety, environmental, quality and legislative requirements across all engineering activities
- Provide technical authority for Management of Change and Management of Operations processes
- Deliver clear advice and documentation to senior leaders, system owners, operators and maintainers
- Own engineering issues by planning, managing and delivering safe, effective mechanical solutions
- Undertake secondary site roles such as Radiological Protection Supervisor or PUWER Assessor, with training provided
This is a full-time role, based on site at Torness, Dunbar, East Lothian. Working Monday to Friday, 08:00 - 16:00.
Essential experience of the Mechanical Engineer:
- Experience working within a highly regulated industry.
- Proven mechanical engineering fault‑finding and resolution.
- Experience designing and substantiating engineered modification packages
- Ability to deliver turnkey engineering work packages from documentation through to installation and testing
- Competence producing and amending engineering documentation, drawings and method statements.
Qualifications for the Mechanical Engineer:
- Degree in a relevant engineering discipline or HNC/HND with relevant experience
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) 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 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: 24/04/2026
#LI-JW1
#CAVDESTNUC