Electrical and Instrument Engineers (E&I Engineer) - 4 Vacancies
Tioxide
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Job summary
Tioxide, a leader in TiO2 pigments, seeks an Electrical & Instrument Engineer to maximise plant reliability across our UK operations. You’ll specify E&I repairs, support outages, and drive improvements in capital projects while maintaining safety standards and engineering discipline.
The role requires strong expertise in electrical/instrumentation controls, plus a Chartered or progressing towards chartered status, and a track record in process industry environments.
Qualifications
- Degree in Electrical, Instrumentation or Control engineering.
- Chartered Engineer or working towards chartered status.
- 5+ years' experience in upper tier COMAH or similar process industry.
- Strong knowledge of electrical, instrumentation and control systems.
- Experience with safety instrumented systems (SIS).
- Experience in plant troubleshooting and maintenance outages.
- Proven ability to perform root-cause analysis and improvements.
- Good communication and influencing skills.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical E&I engineering support to plant teams to improve reliability.
- Draft detailed specs for electrical equipment and instruments.
- Support maintenance events and outages with E&I input.
- Identify reliability improvements using current technologies.
- Contribute to safety reviews, risk assessments and investigations.
- Maintain E&I life plan for capital replacement and upgrades.
- Ensure modifications are properly assessed for risk.
- Promote adherence to site engineering standards.
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Job description
The Electrical and Instrument Engineer provides technical electrical, instrumentation and control engineering support to maximise plant availability, improve reliability performance and support effective problem-solving across the manufacturing asset.
The role is responsible for specifying E&I repairs, supporting maintenance and outage activity, assessing engineering risks associated with modifications and contributing to continuous improvement, safety, compliance and long-term asset integrity.
- Provide technical E&I engineering support to plant teams, taking an active role in troubleshooting, technical investigations and problem-solving activity to improve plant reliability and availability.
- Complete detailed technical specifications for plant electrical equipment and instrument repairs, ensuring work is appropriately planned, approved and completed to the required engineering standard.
- Support planned maintenance events and outages by providing E&I technical input, resolving emergent issues and specifying emergent work where required.
- Identify and implement reliability improvement opportunities, using current technologies and engineering best practice to improve capacity, variable costs, product quality and long-term asset performance.
- Provide E&I engineering input to safety reviews, safety committees, risk assessments and incident investigations, ensuring actions are completed effectively and engineering risks are appropriately managed.
- Maintain and update the area E&I life plan, ensuring timely recommendations are made for capital replacement, repair or improvement of electrical, instrumentation and control assets.
- Ensure plant modifications are subject to thorough E&I engineering assessment, with changes to technology, operating methods, maintenance methods, equipment or staffing evaluated to mitigate engineering risk.
- Promote adherence to site engineering standards, a right-first-time approach and behaviours that support a positive values-based culture.
- Relevant degree in Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, Control Engineering or a related discipline.
- Chartered Engineer status, or actively working towards Chartered status.
- Minimum of 5 years’ industry experience within an Upper Tier COMAH manufacturing, chemical or process environment.
- Strong technical knowledge of electrical, instrumentation and control systems within a manufacturing or process plant setting.
- Knowledge of relevant standards associated with SIL assessment and the management and maintenance of Safety Instrumented Systems.
- Experience providing technical engineering support during plant troubleshooting, planned maintenance events, outages and emergent work.
- Experience contributing to safety reviews, risk assessments, incident investigations and engineering change assessments.
- Proven ability to analyse technical problems, identify root causes and implement effective corrective or improvement actions.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to mobilise technical contributors across Production, Engineering and Technical functions without necessarily having direct line management authority.
- Knowledge of MOD300 and DeltaV DCS systems.
- Experience acting as, or training towards, Management of Change and Inhibits signatory responsibilities.
- Experience performing Duty E&I Manager responsibilities.
- Experience leading cross-functional problem-solving teams within a manufacturing or process environment.
- Experience developing or maintaining E&I life plans, including recommendations for CAPEX replacement, repair or improvement.
- Experience selecting and managing specialist E&I service providers.
We offer a Workplace Pension Scheme via Legal & General, there is a 4% minimum employee contribution, the company will match your own contributions up to a maximum of 8%. We also allow employee Additional Voluntary Contributions to help you save for the future.
Private Medical Insurance (optional), Life Assurance and Income Protection are all included as contractual benefits with us, providing desired security where it matters most.
Application Deadline Wednesday, September 30, 2026 Vacancy Type Permanent/Full Time Positions Available 4 Job Summary
The Electrical and Instrument Engineer provides technical electrical, instrumentation, and control engineering support to maximise plant availability, improve reliability performance and support effective problem-solving across the manufacturing asset.
The role is responsible for specifying E&I repairs, supporting maintenance and outage activity, assessing engineering risks associated with modifications and contributing to continuous improvement, safety, compliance and long-term asset integrity.
- Provide technical E&I engineering support to plant teams, taking an active role in troubleshooting, technical investigations and problem-solving activity to improve plant reliability and availability.
- Complete detailed technical specifications for plant electrical equipment and instrument repairs, ensuring work is appropriately planned, approved and completed to the required engineering standard.
- Support planned maintenance events and outages by providing E&I technical input, resolving emergent issues and specifying emergent work where required.
- Identify and implement reliability improvement opportunities, using current technologies and engineering best practice to improve capacity, variable costs, product quality and long-term asset performance.
- Provide E&I engineering input to safety reviews, safety committees, risk assessments and incident investigations, ensuring actions are completed effectively and engineering risks are appropriately managed.
- Maintain and update the area E&I life plan, ensuring timely recommendations are made for capital replacement, repair or improvement of electrical, instrumentation and control assets.
- Ensure plant modifications are subject to thorough E&I engineering assessment, with changes to technology, operating methods, maintenance methods, equipment or staffing evaluated to mitigate engineering risk.
- Promote adherence to site engineering standards, a right-first-time approach and behaviours that support a positive values-based culture.
- Relevant degree in Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, Control Engineering or a related discipline.
- Chartered Engineer status, or actively working towards Chartered status.
- Minimum of 5 years’ industry experience within an Upper Tier COMAH manufacturing, chemical or process environment.
- Strong technical knowledge of electrical, instrumentation and control systems within a manufacturing or process plant setting.
- Knowledge of relevant standards associated with SIL assessment and the management and maintenance of Safety Instrumented Systems.
- Experience providing technical engineering support during plant troubleshooting, planned maintenance events, outages and emergent work.
- Experience contributing to safety reviews, risk assessments, incident investigations and engineering change assessments.
- Proven ability to analyse technical problems, identify root causes and implement effective corrective or improvement actions.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to mobilise technical contributors across Production, Engineering and Technical functions without necessarily having direct line management authority.
- Knowledge of MOD300 and DeltaV DCS systems.
- Experience acting as, or training towards, Management of Change and Inhibits signatory responsibilities.
- Experience performing Duty E&I Manager responsibilities.
- Experience leading cross-functional problem-solving teams within a manufacturing or process environment.
- Experience developing or maintaining E&I life plans, including recommendations for CAPEX replacement, repair or improvement.
- Experience selecting and managing specialist E&I service providers.
We offer a Workplace Pension Scheme via Legal & General, there is a 4% minimum employee contribution, the company will match your own contributions up to a maximum of 8%. We also allow employee Additional Voluntary Contributions to help you save for the future.
Private Medical Insurance (optional), Life Assurance and Income Protection are all included as contractual benefits with us, providing desired security where it matters most.
Tioxide manufactures premium-performance titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigments, marketed under the TIOXIDE® and DELTIO® brands, and supplied to customers worldwide across a range of essential applications.
Headquartered in Stockton-on-Tees in the UK, Tioxide combines more than 50 years of manufacturing heritage with advanced technical expertise, strong customer partnerships, and a commitment to continuous innovation.
As a wholly owned subsidiary of LB Group, the world’s leading TiO2 pigment and titanium sponge manufacturer, Tioxide is entering an exciting new chapter. As the business continues to evolve, we are welcoming new talent to help build on our strong heritage and contribute to our future success.
At Tioxide, you’ll have the chance to make a real impact in a business where people work together, take ownership, deliver on their commitments and continually look for better ways of doing things.
Whether you’re starting your career or bringing years of experience, you’ll be joining a business with a proud history, a supportive team and a clear vision for the future.
For more information, visit tioxide.com
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