Senior control and instrumentation engineer

Senior Power & Control (Electrical, Control & Instrumentation) Engineer

Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, Ellesmere Port

• Competitive Salary
• 10% Company Contribution Pension rising to 15% with service.
• 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 Northwest 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

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Power & Control Engineer to join our Engineering Department. The role combines reactive and pro-active responsibilities and will provide technical support to a production area on the Refinery to optimise plant safety, availability, performance & cost whilst ensuring compliance with engineering standards and regulatory requirements.

The role will lead design and development activities from an Electrical, Control &Instrumentation perspective on plant modifications; acting as a technical authority authorised under the site management of change processes and be expected to lead or support a variety of projects. The individual will act independently and provide technical advice and assurance in a range of areas, including hazard studies, functional safety and plant process automation whilst being responsive to emergent issues and ensuring established business processes are followed.

The role will be an integral part of a multi-discipline production area technical assurance team, driving reliability and production improvement activities, with responsibility for the management of reliability threats associated with C&I equipment; being proactive in proposing and executing strategies to mitigate these, including the approaches to maintenance and equipment upgrades. In addition, the role will define and optimise the scope of Turnarounds and assist in the planning, preparation, and execution of these.

The role is expected to provide out-of-hours support via a duty rota.

**About You

You should be a Graduate Engineer, whether chartered or working towards chartered status, with significant practical experience in process plant production support and project experience in the areas of automation, instrumentation, control systems and safeguarding.

You should have experience in being a technical authority / authorised under management of change processes as required under COMAH regulations, with good commercial, procurement & contracting strategy awareness with excellent knowledge of Engineering standards (e.g. API, DEP’s, British Standards) and have the ability to research and apply.

A demonstrated interest in recent innovations in the fields of automation, instrumentation, and process monitoring, including wireless technologies, would be an advantage.

Closing Date

This vacancy will close on 03 May 2024.