Instrumentation & Controls Technician

Description:

Instrumentation & Controls Technician

£47,000 + Quarterly Bonus + Private Medical

Sheffield

Days Only | Monday to Friday 37.5 Hours

Are you an Instrumentation & Controls Technician who enjoys fault finding, diagnostics and getting to the root cause of complex engineering problems?

This is an opportunity to join a specialist manufacturing site where instrumentation, control systems and plant performance are critical to production success. You'll play a key role in maintaining and improving a wide range of control and combustion systems, helping to maximise reliability across a technically advanced operation.

If you enjoy working with PLCs, instrumentation, furnace controls and process equipment, this could be the ideal next step in your career.

What's On Offer

* £47,000 salary

* Quarterly bonus scheme paying between 2.5% and 15%

* Private medical insurance

* Life assurance (death in service)

* 33 days holiday including bank holidays

* Pension scheme with employer contributions up to 8%

* Employee Assistance Programme

* Monday to Friday days role

* Ongoing training and development

* Long-term career opportunities

The Role - Instrumentation & Controls Technician

* Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance across a specialist manufacturing facility

* Fault finding on instrumentation, control systems and combustion equipment

* Supporting PLC and Burner Management System diagnostics

* Conducting Thermal Uniformity Surveys (TUS), System Accuracy Tests (SAT) and calibration activities

* Maintaining and improving preventative maintenance schedules

* Recording maintenance activities through the CMMS system

* Identifying and specifying critical spare parts

* Supporting continuous improvement projects across the site

* Working closely with specialist OEM engineers and internal engineering teams

* Ensuring high standards of safety, quality and compliance at all times

What We're Looking For

* Experience working as an Instrumentation Technician, Controls Technician, EC&I Technician, Instrument Engineer or Controls Engineer

* Strong fault-finding and diagnostic skills

* Understanding of PLCs, instrumentation and industrial control systems

* Experience working within manufacturing, process, heavy industrial or engineering environments

* Ability to read electrical and mechanical engineering drawings

* Knowledge of calibration activities and process instrumentation

* Engineering qualification such as Apprenticeship, NVQ, City & Guilds, ONC or HNC preferred

* Experience of combustion systems, furnaces or burner management systems would be advantageous

This role would suit engineers from steel, foundry, glass, chemicals, power generation, oil & gas, cement, paper, food manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, process manufacturing and other industrial environments.

If you're looking for a technically challenging Instrumentation & Controls Technician role where you can genuinely influence plant performance and reliability, we'd like to hear from you