Details:
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Location: Nationwide
- Date: 3 days ago
Description:
Job Title: Control and Instrumentation Engineer
Location: South Wales
Contract Type: Permanent
Why This Role Stands Out
- Sole subject matter expert across the full control and OT estate
- Direct input into the site's long-term investment and capital projects plan, not just day-to-day support
- Real influence over safety systems, alarm philosophy, and cybersecurity standards
- Stable, established manufacturing environment producing critical products for its market, with genuine investment in your development
- Contributory pension, annual bonus, private medical cover, and a strong holiday allowance
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the site's technical authority for control systems and OT/IT infrastructure
- Make controlled programming changes to the DCS and PLCs under proper change and commissioning discipline
- Set and maintain site standards for alarms, overrides, cybersecurity, and IEC 61511 compliance
- Own the site's protective systems, including interlocks, trips, and SIL-rated functions
- Maintain infrastructure from controllers and networks through to historians, servers, and backups
- Investigate plant performance issues through structured root cause analysis
- Support the Engineering Manager with control-system and IT budget planning
- Act as subject matter expert on capital projects touching the control and OT scope
- Coordinate local IT and wider corporate digital functions under one aligned approach
- Drive a safety-first culture aligned to UK legislation and site SHE requirements
Requirements
- Degree in Chemical Engineering, Process Control Systems, or Instrumentation and Electronics
- Experience with ownership of instrumentation and control systems
- Experience across DCS software and hardware architecture, including virtualised environments with replication and failover (beneficial)
- Hands-on PLC exposure across platforms such as Allen-Bradley or Siemens, plus SCADA and ladder logic
- Functional safety certification to IEC 61511/61508, or a strong willingness to work towards it
- Working knowledge of, or interest in developing, OT cybersecurity practices and management systems
- Structured problem-solver, with familiarity with 5-Why, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies preferred
- Valid right to work in the UK required; sponsorship is not available for this role