Senior Inspection Engineer
Date: 24 Sept 2026
Location: Ellesmere Port, GB, CH65 4HB
Company: essaroiluk
Senior Inspection Engineer
Location: 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
EET (Essar Energy Transition) vision is to be the leading producer of low carbon fuels and establish a blueprint energy transition hub in the North West. EET plays a major role in supplying the Northwest and the wider UK with essential fuels. We produce over 16% of the UK’s road transport fuels, supply key feedstocks to the petrochemical industry, and are investing heavily in low‑carbon energy solutions.
We work with major retail fuel brands, supermarkets, Manchester Airport, leading airlines, and regional transport operators. We are also a key partner in the HyNet project, helping to deliver the region’s low‑carbon future.
With over 900 skilled colleagues, we offer a strong safety culture, technically challenging work, and some of the best training in the energy sector.
Find out more: Redefining Energy | EET
About the Role
We currently have an exciting opportunity for and experienced Senior Inspection Engineer to lead and manage a team of Plant Inspectors, ensuring the effective delivery of the inspection programme and supporting the refinery's mechanical integrity objectives through safe, compliant and risk-based inspection practices.
Primary Accountabilities:
· Lead, supervise and develop a team of Plant Inspectors, ensuring inspection activities are delivered safely, efficiently and to the required technical standards.
· Manage inspection workloads across routine operations, turnarounds, statutory inspections and emergent integrity issues.
· Review, approve and optimise inspection plans, ensuring compliance with company procedures, Written Schemes of Examination (WSEs) and legislative requirements.
· Drive delivery of inspection strategies aligned with asset integrity, business and risk management objectives.
· Provide technical guidance on inspection findings, data interpretation and reporting to ensure consistent, high-quality outputs.
· Collaborate with Integrity Engineers to prioritise equipment integrity risks, define repair scopes, inspection intervals and mitigation strategies.
· Ensure inspection findings are translated into corrective actions and progressed to completion within agreed timescales.
· Oversee the Integrity Management System (IMS), ensuring accurate inspection records, condition monitoring data and integrity reporting.
· Monitor inspection performance, backlogs and overdue actions, maintaining compliance and managing associated risks.
· Coordinate specialist inspection activities and external service providers to deliver safe, compliant and cost-effective inspection services.
· Provide inspection leadership during turnaround planning, execution and post-event reviews.
· Support pressure testing, relief valve testing and other inspection-related verification activities.
· Contribute to integrity investigations, including equipment failures, Loss of Primary Containment (LOPC) events, near misses and Root Cause Analyses (RCA).
· Ensure inspection documentation, reports and records meet company and regulatory standards.
· Support budgeting and forecasting by identifying inspection, turnaround and specialist service requirements.
· Develop team capability through mentoring, competency development and performance management.
· Act as the technical focal point for inspection strategy, inspection technologies and risk-based inspection decisions within the assigned area.
You will be qualified in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Metallurgy or a related engineering discipline and hold recognised inspection qualifications such as API 510, API 570, API 653, ASME Plant Inspector or equivalent. A strong understanding of Pressure Systems Safety Regulations (PSSR) and refinery asset integrity management is essential.
You will bring substantial experience within a refinery, petrochemical, oil and gas, chemical or similar heavy process environment, with expertise in fixed equipment inspection, inspection planning, turnaround support, equipment integrity assessment and contractor management. Experience leading, mentoring and developing inspection personnel is highly desirable.
The successful candidate will possess strong technical knowledge of pressure vessels, piping systems, storage tanks, corrosion management, condition monitoring and risk-based inspection principles. You will be comfortable interpreting engineering drawings, reviewing inspection data, assessing equipment condition and applying industry standards and codes to support safe and reliable operations.
We are looking for a proactive leader with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of making sound risk-based decisions, influencing operational and engineering teams, and driving a culture of safety, compliance and continuous improvement. Professional registration, additional inspection certifications and experience with RBI methodologies would be advantageous.
This vacancy will be advertised for a minimum period of three weeks and will remain open to applications until an offer has been made and accepted. Therefore, the vacancy may close at any time after Thursday, 15 October 2026, and we encourage interested candidates to apply as early as possible.