Graduate - Process Safety

Ellesmere Port

• Competitive salary commencing at £30,000 per annum
• 10% Company Contribution Pension
• 25 days Holiday, increasing with service
• Private Medical Insurance 
• Additional Flex Benefits- including Holiday Purchase
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme with Exclusive access to a range of 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

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.

**The Role

Non-Rotational Graduate Programme – Process Safety.  This programme focuses on developing the Process Safety skills required to provide technical safety support and advice to the site production units and business in general.  You will join our site Process Safety team which will allow you to gain a good understanding of how a Top Tier COMAH Site assesses all aspects of risks and manages these risks to reduce them to As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) as per the legal requirement for continued operation of the site.  Process Safety spans into every aspect of our business and the programme will provide you the opportunity to work alongside other engineering disciplines, including Process Engineers in our Technology department as well as operations, maintenance and project teams. 

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 process safety skillset and associated learnings.  

The Graduate programme is accredited by the Institution of Chemical Engineers and Graduates are actively encouraged to work towards Chartered Status with the IChemE. You will be assigned an IChemE Chartered mentor who will support you in taking the first steps towards Chartership.

**About You

Our ideal candidate will be a Graduate with a Chemical engineering degree at least a 2:1 Grading and MEng preferred.

Our ideal candidates will be highly driven, dedicated and focused individuals, who are willing to learn and develop within Essar. 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.

Closing Date

This vacancy will close on 31 October 2024.