Trainee Control and Instrumentation Engineer

Gaia Law and Holistic Center; Alton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a motivated trainee C&I Engineer to join their dynamic team in Hampshire. This exciting junior role offers a fantastic opportunity for growth and development, with full training provided. You will be involved in maintaining and improving process control systems, ensuring efficient and safe plant operations. The company boasts an excellent salary package, generous holidays, and a contributory pension scheme. If you are passionate about controls and instrumentation and eager to learn, this could be the perfect opportunity for you to kickstart your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Annual company bonus

Generous holidays

10% contributory pension scheme

Gym allowance

Qualifications

• Experience in controls systems or instrumentation design is essential.
• Must have electrical engineering qualifications and PLC experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve process control and safety systems.
• Act as Lead Engineer ensuring site safety and support.

Skills

Controls Engineering qualifications

Instrumentation qualifications

PLC experience

Functional Safety Standards knowledge

Control and instrumentation design

Electrical Engineering

Knowledge of process plant standards

Education

HNC in Electrical Engineering

Apprenticeship in Electrical or Instrument & Control Engineering

Job description

A trainee C&I Engineer, trainee Controls Instrumentation Engineer is required for our top tier COMAH specialist engineering client based in Hampshire. In return there is an excellent salary package circa £40k-£45k+ dependant on experience, full training and further qualifications plus overtime and excellent benefits including a large annual company bonus, generous holidays, an excellent 10% contributory pension scheme and gym allowance in a well-established reputable growing company. Apply now!

This is a challenging junior role that would suit a motivated Controls and Instrumentation engineer or C&I technician with some good controls systems or instrumentation, control panels design experience and functional safety knowledge. You must have controls or instrumentation electrical engineering qualifications, some PLC experience, design installation experience as a base and they will train the rest. My client is offering a great career opportunity to develop C&I Technicians further with structured personalised training plans and further qualifications.

The ideal junior C&I engineer, Controls and Instrumentation engineer candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Controls Engineering qualifications or Instrument qualifications and memberships (apprenticeship trained, HNC in Electrical, Electrical or Instrument & Control Engineering)
• Some good controls systems experience and knowledge possess the required skills in the control & instrumentation design standards of process plant / live plant industry
• Working knowledge in instrumentation, instrumentation control, control and instrumentation design, safety instrumented systems design
• Experience or knowledge of Functional Safety Standards IEC 61508, 61511 and Explosive Atmospheres BS EN 60079 is desirable
• Engineering experience of large production plant industries such as the chemical, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, live process plant, nuclear, hazardous live sites and refinery process plant industries.
• Hold a current valid UK driving licence and have your own vehicle to get to remote site daily - essential
• Full eligibility to work in the UK without sponsorship both now or after a visa expires

The purpose of this role is to manage and coordinate the maintenance, design and improvement of process control systems and safety systems for the plant.

Key responsibilities of the controls and instrumentation design engineer include:

• Maintain and improve the process control systems and safety systems for efficient and safe plant operation
• Eventually act as Lead Engineer ensuring site safety. Site maintenance and support and site development and provide good leadership and supervision to the C&I Technicians.
• Learn to develop project work scopes. Schedules of work after identification of plant improvement, capital projects works
• Implement and design new and improved process control systems, safety systems
• Monitor and manage budgets cost effectively - CAPEX and OPEX
• Regularly review Safety Instrumented Systems, documentation and improve process control systems and safety systems in line with standards

A full job description will be discussed and submitted to suitable C&I qualified candidates upon application.

To apply please email your CV with your salary expectations and availability & detail how you meet our clients C&I Engineer criteria.

C&I Engineer – Controls and Instrumentation Engineer, Controls Systems design