CES Senior Instrument Technician

Centrica; Easington; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Centrica Energy Storage + is seeking a Senior Instrument Technician to ensure safe, compliant and reliable operation of instrumentation, control, and safety systems across our assets. You will support operations and maintenance teams while contributing to asset reliability and process safety initiatives.

Your role includes preventative and corrective maintenance, fault diagnosis, loop tuning and performance optimisation, with leadership in safety and contractor management as required.

Qualifications

• Time-served instrumentation or control technician apprenticeship.
• Significant experience in gas processing, oil & gas, petrochemical, power generation or COMAH environments.
• Strong fault-finding and maintenance on instrumentation and control systems.
• Experience with DCS, PLC, Fire & Gas and ESD systems.
• Familiarity with CMMS maintenance systems.
• Understanding of Management of Change and process safety principles.
• CompEx Certification.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventative and corrective maintenance on instrumentation and control equipment.
• Maintain transmitters, analysers, control valves, shutdown systems, fire and gas systems.
• Diagnose and rectify instrument and control system faults.
• Undertake inspection, calibration and testing to ensure asset integrity and compliance.
• Carry out low-complexity modifications on DCS, Fire & Gas, and compressor control systems.
• Support software modification activities and system upgrades.
• Provide technical support for operational risk management and MoC reviews.
• Identify reliability improvement opportunities and assist with fault investigation.
• Execute CMMS work orders and maintain records.
• Support OT cyber security and system backup arrangements.

Skills

Fault finding

DCS

PLC

Fire & Gas

ESD

CMMS

MoC

CompEx Certification

Education

Instrumentation or Control Technician apprenticeship

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Join us, be part of more.

We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We’re energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that’s energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

About your team:

At Centrica Energy Storage +, our mission is to store it.

Our onshore and offshore teams are united in their goal, to boost the UK’s energy security and drive down bills for customers. Rough, our North Sea storage facility, currently provides half of the UK’s gas storage – enough to heat 2.4 million homes over winter. But we’re not stopping there. We’ve got our sights set on transforming it into the world’s largest hydrogen storage facility and creating a Net Zero connected energy hub in the Humber.

CES Senior Instrument Technician

Job Purpose

To ensure the continued safe, compliant and reliable operation of Centrica Energy Storage assets through the maintenance, fault finding, testing and improvement of instrumentation, control and safety systems. The role provides technical support to operations and maintenance teams while contributing to asset reliability, process safety and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Instrumentation Maintenance

• Perform preventative and corrective maintenance on instrumentation and control equipment in accordance with engineering standards and site procedures.
• Maintain transmitters, analysers, control valves, shutdown systems, fire and gas systems and associated field instrumentation.
• Diagnose and rectify instrument and control system faults to minimise plant downtime.
• Undertake inspection, calibration and testing activities to ensure asset integrity and compliance.

Control Systems

• Carry out approved low-complexity modifications on: DCS systems Fire & Gas systems Compressor control systems
• Implement approved alarm setpoint changes in accordance with site management procedures.
• Support software modification activities and system upgrades.

Asset Reliability & Continuous Improvement

• Provide technical discipline support for operational risk management activities.
• Participate in Management of Change (MoC) reviews and hazard assessments.
• Identify reliability improvement opportunities and support investigation of equipment failures.
• Assist with fault finding, loop tuning and performance optimisation activities.

Maintenance Management

• Execute work orders generated through the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Maintain accurate maintenance records, work evaluations and close-out reports.
• Support the site’s work planning and scheduling processes.
• Manage system-related maintenance activities and associated work orders.

Systems & Cyber Security

• Support the OT Cyber Security Engineer with: Systems maintenance activities Network maintenance Cyber detection and response activities
• Manage site engineering and control system laptops.
• Maintain system backup and recovery arrangements where required.
• Ensure critical system spares inventories are maintained.

Leadership & Contractor Management

• Deputise for the Lead Instrument/Control Technician when required.
• Supervise specialist vendors and contractors working on control and instrumentation systems.
• Provide technical guidance and support to colleagues and apprentices.
• Promote high standards of safety, compliance and technical excellence.

Safety & Compliance

• Work in accordance with company safety rules, engineering standards and statutory regulations.
• Support process safety initiatives and barrier management requirements.
• Ensure all maintenance activities are carried out under appropriate permit and risk assessment arrangements.
• Maintain competency and authorisations relevant to the role.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Essential

• Time-served Instrumentation or Control Technician apprenticeship.
• Significant experience within gas processing, oil and gas, petrochemical, power generation or similar COMAH environments.
• Strong fault-finding and maintenance experience on instrumentation and control systems.
• Experience working with DCS, PLC, Fire & Gas and ESD systems.
• Familiarity with CMMS maintenance systems.
• Understanding of Management of Change and process safety principles.
• CompEx Certification

Desirable

• Functional Safety or IEC 61511 awareness.
• OT Cyber Security awareness.
• HNC/HND in Instrumentation, Electrical Engineering or Control Engineering.

Key Behaviours

• Strong safety leadership.
• High technical competence and attention to detail.
• Effective communicator and team player.
• Proactive approach to reliability improvement.
• Ability to work independently and make sound technical decisions.

If you’re full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.