Senior Control and Instrumentation Engineer

Location:

Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, Ellesmere Port

Employment Type:

Site Based Full-Time Role 5 days per week Monday-Friday

EET (Essar Energy Transition) plays a major role in supplying the Northwest and the wider UK with essential fuels. We produce over 16% of the UK’s road fuels, supply key feed stocks to the petrochemical industry, and are investing heavily in low‑carbon energy solutions.

We work with major retail fuel brands, supermarkets, Manchester Airport, leading airlines, and regional transport operators. We are also a key partner in the HyNet project, helping to deliver the region’s low‑carbon future.

With over 900 skilled colleagues, we offer a strong safety culture, technically challenging work, and some of the best training in the energy sector.

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Redefining Energy | EET The Role

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Control & Instrumentation Engineer. You will provide technical leadership and engineering assurance to support the safe, compliant, and reliable operation of refinery assets. Working across both operational and project environments, you will deliver expert control and instrumentation engineering solutions that optimise asset performance, drive continuous improvement, and enable the successful delivery of business growth objectives.

You will play a key role in ensuring the integrity, availability, and future development of critical control systems while maintaining the highest standards of safety and regulatory compliance.

• Respond to emergent site issues by providing engineering assurance to support continued safe operation, leading assessments and investigations, and implementing necessary changes to plant design, equipment or operating practices.
• Provide Control & Instrumentation (C&I) expertise and input to process safety studies, including HAZOP, LOPA and SIL determination assessments.
• Act as the C&I technical authority within Management of Change (MoC) processes, ensuring all modifications are technically robust, compliant and appropriately governed.
• Design, review and assure safety-related systems in accordance with IEC 61511 and IEC 61508 standards.
• Identify, assess and mitigate threats to asset reliability through the development and implementation of maintenance, inspection and obsolescence management strategies.
• Own and maintain key business processes to ensure compliance with regulatory, engineering and company requirements.
• Support turnaround events by developing scopes of work, preparing budget estimates, providing engineering assurance and leading maintenance or project execution activities.
• Lead the delivery of C&I projects that enhance safety, environmental performance, operational reliability and business performance.
• Provide C&I engineering design and assurance throughout the full project lifecycle, from concept and front-end development through design, execution, commissioning and handover.
• Develop technical specifications, equipment requisitions and user requirement specifications, incorporating functional safety and ATEX requirements where applicable.
• Evaluate and assess vendor proposals, ensuring alignment with technical, operational and commercial requirements.
• Manage budgets associated with assigned plant modifications and engineering projects.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across the business.
• Act as a technical expert in automation and C&I engineering, providing guidance, mentoring, training and technical support to colleagues.
• Develop and evaluate business cases and funding proposals for C&I-related projects and improvement initiatives.
• Participate in the C&I duty rota and provide out-of-hours technical support as required.
• Support refinery turnaround events, which…