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Electrical and Instrument Engineers; E&I Engineer

Job in Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1, England, UK
Listing for: Tioxide
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-02
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Electrical Engineering, Process Engineer, Systems Engineer, Quality Engineering
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Electrical and Instrument Engineers (E&I Engineer) - 4 Vacancies

Electrical and Instrument Engineers (E&I Engineer) - 4 Vacancies

The Electrical and Instrument Engineer provides technical electrical, instrumentation and control engineering support to maximise plant availability, improve reliability performance and support effective problem-solving across the manufacturing asset.

The role is responsible for specifying E&I repairs, supporting maintenance and outage activity, assessing engineering risks associated with modifications and contributing to continuous improvement, safety, compliance and long-term asset integrity.

Roles and Responsibilities
  • Provide technical E&I engineering support to plant teams, taking an active role in troubleshooting, technical investigations and problem-solving activity to improve plant reliability and availability.
  • Complete detailed technical specifications for plant electrical equipment and instrument repairs, ensuring work is appropriately planned, approved and completed to the required engineering standard.
  • Support planned maintenance events and outages by providing E&I technical input, resolving emergent issues and specifying emergent work where required.
  • Identify and implement reliability improvement opportunities, using current technologies and engineering best practice to improve capacity, variable costs, product quality and long-term asset performance.
  • Provide E&I engineering input to safety reviews, safety committees, risk assessments and incident investigations, ensuring actions are completed effectively and engineering risks are appropriately managed.
  • Maintain and update the area E&I life plan, ensuring timely recommendations are made for capital replacement, repair or improvement of electrical, instrumentation and control assets.
  • Ensure plant modifications are subject to thorough E&I engineering assessment, with changes to technology, operating methods, maintenance methods, equipment or staffing evaluated to mitigate engineering risk.
  • Promote adherence to site engineering standards, a right-first-time approach and behaviours that support a positive values-based culture.
Experience and Qualifications
  • Relevant degree in Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, Control Engineering or a related discipline.
  • Chartered Engineer status, or actively working towards Chartered status.
  • Minimum of 5 years’ industry experience within an Upper Tier COMAH manufacturing, chemical or process environment.
  • Strong technical knowledge of electrical, instrumentation and control systems within a manufacturing or process plant setting.
  • Knowledge of relevant standards associated with SIL assessment and the management and maintenance of Safety Instrumented Systems.
  • Experience providing technical engineering support during plant troubleshooting, planned maintenance events, outages and emergent work.
  • Experience contributing to safety reviews, risk assessments, incident investigations and engineering change assessments.
  • Proven ability to analyse technical problems, identify root causes and implement effective corrective or improvement actions.
  • Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to mobilise technical contributors across Production, Engineering and Technical functions without necessarily having direct line management authority.
  • Knowledge of MOD
    300 and DeltaV DCS systems.
  • Experience acting as, or training towards, Management of Change and Inhibits signatory responsibilities.
  • Experience performing Duty E&I Manager responsibilities.
  • Experience leading cross-functional problem-solving teams within a manufacturing or process environment.
  • Experience developing or maintaining E&I life plans, including recommendations for CAPEX replacement, repair or improvement.
  • Experience selecting and managing specialist E&I service providers.

We offer a Workplace Pension Scheme via Legal & General, there is a 4% minimum employee contribution, the company will match your own contributions up to a maximum of 8%. We also allow employee Additional Voluntary Contributions to help you save for the future.

Private Medical Insurance (optional), Life Assurance and Income Protection are all included as contractual benefits with us, providing desired security…

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