Senior Instrument Technician — Energy Storage

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

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.