Technology Internship

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.

Summer Intern Programme – Commencing in July 2024 an eight-week placement programme is available within one of our Production Unit (PU) Technology Teams.  You will be assigned a project which will support and provide the Team with tangible data or an improvement to the day to day running of the Unit.

The project will be a real problem or opportunity that will give you the chance to interact within Technology, with Operations and the other refinery support disciplines and most importantly, make a quantifiable difference to the performance of the refinery.

The programme is designed to give you exposure to the Technology Department and its role within the refinery, whilst allowing you the opportunity to learn, understand and support the disciplines you operate within during the programme. 

The chemical engineers within the Technology Department are responsible for a wide range of activities associated with supporting refinery unit production such as; monitoring and assessing refinery units’ performance and providing technical advice and recommendations.   

About You

Our ideal candidate will be in their penultimate year of an accredited master Chemical Engineering Degree (Meng), on track for a 2:1 or higher.  Previous relevant work experience is not essential but is preferable.  You will be keen to quickly learn new skills, apply your chemical engineering knowledge and interact with a wide range of disciplines from across the refinery.

Closing Date

The vacancy will close on 30 April 2024.