Graduate - HSSEQ

Graduate Programme – HSSE Graduate

Location: Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, Ellesmere Port

Employment Type: Site Based Full Time Role 5 days per week Monday-Friday

Start Date: October 2026 (3 Year Fixed Term)

•    Competitive salary starting at £30,000 per annum
•    10% salary uplift following a successful annual performance review, each year while on the graduate program
•    10% Company Contribution Pension
•    25 days of holiday, increasing with service
•    Private Medical Insurance
•    Additional Flex Benefits, including Holiday Purchase
•    Access to the Employee Assistance Programme with exclusive discounts
•    Free secure on-site car parking

About The Company 

Do you want to work for the company that’s playing a leading role in delivering the North West’s low carbon future?  EET Fuels (Trading name of Essar Oil (UK) Limited) produces over 16% of the UK’s road transport fuels, provides key feedstocks to Britain’s petrochemical industry and is investing in developing low carbon fuels. 

We are a major supplier in the North West and beyond with customers including most of the major retail brands operated by international oil companies and supermarkets, Manchester Airport, leading commercial airlines and the region’s trains and buses.

And we’re central to the innovative HyNet project which is redefining energy to achieve our regional low carbon ambitions and national policy targets. 

We employ over 800 expert and engaged colleagues, who are at the heart of everything we do.  The company has an embedded safety culture, technically challenging work across all the different parts of the business and some of the best training available in the energy industry.

For more information, please visit www.eetfuels.com

The Role

Non-Rotational Graduate Programme - This programme focuses on developing the key HSSE and regulatory skills needed to provide effective support and advice to site production units and the wider business. You will join our site HSSE team, gaining valuable experience in how an Upper Tier COMAH site identifies, assesses, and manages risks across all HSSE areas—ensuring these risks are reduced to As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP), in accordance with legal requirements for the safe and compliant operation of the site. 

The role will also focus on work within the Process Safety team, providing you with a strong grounding in how process safety principles are applied to manage major accident hazards. 

Although not a rotational programme, there will be opportunities to carry out assignments across different areas of the Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Quality (HSSEQ) team, to give you deeper exposure to related functions such as environmental, human factors and emergency response planning. The role will involve both working on projects and also day-to-day operational support relating to all aspects of safety, environmental and health risk identification and assessment such that they can be effectively managed. 

Your graduate programme will be designed to grow and develop your HSSE and regulatory skillset, along with the associated knowledge and practical experience needed to support safe, compliant, and responsible operations.

About You

Our ideal candidate will be a Graduate with a Masters Chemical engineering degree or relative degree.

Our ideal candidates will be highly driven, dedicated and focused individuals, who are willing to learn and develop within EET Fuels. They will be required to be highly literate, with exceptional IT skills in Microsoft programmes.

Successful candidates will be required to be confident communicators, both in written and verbal styles, and hold the confidence to present to a wide variety of Stakeholders; both internally and externally. Resilience and willingness to take responsibility will be highly sought after characteristics within our successful candidate.

Application Deadline: Thursday 15th January 2026. Please note, the application deadline is subject to change and may close earlier depending on application volumes.

Please note, we work with a carefully selected set of recruitment agencies, and we are not looking to add to the current preferred suppliers list. We are unable to accept representations from agencies that are not on that preferred supplier list.