Instrument Technician

JR United Kingdom; York; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in York seeks an Instrument Technician responsible for maintenance and safety compliance in a manufacturing environment. The role involves executing planned and reactive maintenance tasks, ensuring reliability and legal adherence while working as part of a shift team. This position requires strong communication skills and appropriate technical qualifications.

Qualifications

• Relevant Trade Qualification as an Instrument Technician.
• Ideally with a recognised level 3 education certificate, such as NVQ or HNC.
• Experience in maintenance, calibration, and testing of various instrumentation.

Responsibilities

• Perform instrument maintenance and ensure adherence to safety regulations.
• Complete scheduled maintenance and rectify equipment defects.
• Participate in safety management activities and reviews.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication

Self-motivation

Troubleshooting

Education

Level 3 education certificate (e.g., NVQ, HNC)

Relevant Trade Qualification as an Instrument Technician

Job description

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Responsible for instrument maintenance work on site, including planned, preventive, and reactive activities. This is to ensure that site reliability and integrity are maintained to the required legal and company standards. This will be carried out as part of a shift team.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

• Ensure that all Environmental, Health & Safety requirements are met during the execution of maintenance tasks.
• Report any accidents or near misses as required by our health and safety policy.
• Raise relevant work permit requests. Accept and follow the permit, isolation procedure, and other related safe systems of work to complete the task. Complete and/or contribute to risk assessments associated with all maintenance duties expected for the role.
• Complete scheduled maintenance as per the company maintenance plan to support the running of the production site.
• Identify and rectify equipment defects related to your specific trade.
• Assist the Workshop Manager in proactively driving a culture of safety performance (BBS, Near Miss reporting, TBTs, Chemical Awareness, Process Safety Management).
• Participate in AINM’s (Accident, Incident, Near Miss) reviews and assist in the evaluation of the safety status of the workshop.
• Participate in safety management activities including routine plant safety.
• Ensure work is carried out safely & as per company guidelines.
• Ensure job is right first time, minimize rework on equipment by working to Quality & performance Standards.
• Fault finding & improvement activities to reduce repeat equipment failures.

Skills & Qualifications

Relevant Trade Qualification as an Instrument Technician.

Ideally with a recognised level 3 education certificate, such as NVQ or HNC, in a relevant engineering field.

Highly driven and self-motivated, KPI focused.

Enjoys working under pressure of a manufacturing setting.

Good organizational skills.

Excellent communicator, equally comfortable working in a highly technical or shopfloor environment.

Experience in maintenance, calibration, and testing of Temperature, Pressure, Flow, Level & Analyser instrumented systems & other miscellaneous plant instrumentation.

Familiar with the use of computers for allocating, receiving & signing off maintenance work.