Role ID: SF75615
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 Piping Engineer at our offices in Grimsby or Hessle, East Yorkshire.
As a Senior Piping Engineer, you'll play a key role in the design, analysis and delivery of safety-critical piping systems supporting major nuclear projects across the UK. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your advanced mechanical and piping engineering expertise within a highly regulated environment while broadening your nuclear industry experience through structured development and re-skilling opportunities.
You'll take technical ownership of complex engineering activities across stress analysis, pressure systems, vendor management and multidisciplinary project delivery. Working as the intelligent customer for specialist suppliers, you'll directly influence the successful delivery of nationally significant projects that support the UK's energy and defence capabilities.
Day-to-day, you will be:
This is a full-time, permanent position based at our Grimsby or Hessle offices, with hybrid working available and an expectation of three days per week on site.
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).
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: 17/09/2026

Babcock is a FTSE 100 defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets.
Our Purpose, to create a safe and secure world, together, defines our strategy. We support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets through a range of product and service solutions. We meet our customers’ requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.
These projects take all different kinds of professionals, from chartered engineers and project managers, to naval architects, data analysts and everything in between. To bring through the next generation of engineering and business experts, we offer apprenticeships and roles for students, graduates and fully-qualified professionals.
There’s never been a better time to join us. Whether you’re looking for a new business management project or engineering role, join Babcock and grow with us.
Babcock is a Disability Confident, Committed Employer