Graduate Instrumentation & Automation Engineer

Orion Engineering Services Limited; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Basingstoke is seeking a Graduate Instrumentation Engineer to join their team on a 12-month fixed term. This opportunity allows recent graduates to gain hands-on engineering experience supporting Instrumentation and Automation activities across various project phases. Candidates should have a degree in a relevant discipline and strong communication skills. This role emphasizes a proactive attitude and offers a supportive learning environment.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant engineering discipline (professional accreditation beneficial).
• Strong communication, planning, and organisational skills.
• A proactive, 'can-do' attitude with flexibility and enthusiasm.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and check technical calculations, datasheets, philosophies, and specifications for instrumentation and control systems.
• Support design work such as cable routing, layout development, P&ID reviews, and C&E matrices.
• Assist with technical bid evaluations and coordination with other engineering disciplines.
• Contribute to control system designs while receiving coaching and development.
• Participate in short site visits to support project activities.
• Maintain high safety, environmental, and quality standards.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Planning and organisational skills

Proactive attitude

Flexibility and enthusiasm

Education

Degree in relevant engineering discipline

Job description

Graduate Instrumentation Engineer – 12-Month Fixed Term

Location: Basingstoke, UK

Our client is offering an exciting 12-month opportunity for a recent graduate—either without industry experience or with some early career exposure—to join their Instrumentation team and gain hands‑on engineering experience. This role is ideal for candidates who show strong aptitude, enthusiasm, and a willingness to learn.

About the Role

You will support Instrumentation & Automation (I& A) engineering activities across a range of project phases, from feasibility studies and FEED through to EPC support and decommissioning. Working closely with experienced engineers, you’ll contribute to technical deliverables, calculations, specifications, and design support for major industrial projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and check technical calculations, datasheets, philosophies, and specifications for instrumentation and control systems.
• Support design work such as cable routing, layout development, P&ID reviews, and C&E matrices.
• Assist with technical bid evaluations and coordination with other engineering disciplines.
• Contribute to control system designs while receiving coaching and development.
• Participate in short site visits to support project activities.
• Maintain high safety, environmental, and quality standards.
• Bring innovation, curiosity, and a continuous‑improvement mindset.

What We’re Looking For

• Degree in a relevant engineering discipline (professional accreditation beneficial).
• Strong communication, planning, and organisational skills.
• A proactive, “can‑do” attitude with flexibility and enthusiasm.
• Any exposure to instrumentation, automation, process engineering, or project environments is advantageous but not essential.

This is an excellent chance to begin your engineering career, build real project experience, and develop professionally within a supportive team. For further information about this position please apply.

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion

As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.