Job Title: Mechanical Technician
Location: Heysham, Lancashire / Flexible
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61520
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 Mechanical Technician, at our Heysham, Lancashire site.
The role
As a Mechanical Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be working within an exciting, highly regulated and a technically challenging environment managing a varied and diverse workload. This role also offers exceptional career opportunities within a unique, high-investment business sector.
Day-to-day, you’ll operate within all legislative requirements, meeting the guidance provided in the Approved Codes of Practice.
- Provision of any specific tools, spares or other equipment to carry out the task. Generally, non-specific hand tools will be provided by the resident Cavendish Nuclear Site Team, the Site Team, or EDF Energy.
- Take positive remedial action on identified unsafe working conditions or practices or refer to your superior any of these for which you cannot achieve any satisfactory solution with the resources available.
- Interpretation and implementation of the task, including the associated quality requirements.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and based in Heysham, Lancashire but is flexible on location and is a roving role. The working schedule for this role is Monday to Thursday. You will work 10 hours per day from Monday to Wednesday, and 7 hours on Thursday.
Essential experience of the Mechanical Technician:
- Ideally from the Nuclear Generation industry or from a highly regulated industry.
- Ideally will operated within a Mechanical role.
Qualifications for the Mechanical Technician:
- HNC/ONC in a Mechanically biased discipline is desirable.
- Will have GCSE Maths & English ideally.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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: 28/01/2025
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