Electrical Controls and Instrumentation Technician

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.

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