Electrical & Instrument Engineers; E&I Engineer

Electrical & Instrument Engineers (E&I Engineer)

Location:

Hartlepool, Co Durham

Contract Type:
Permanent / Full Time

Closing Date:
Sep 11th, 2026

:
1702094

Wolviston Management Services are recruiting on behalf of Tioxide Materials Ltd for 4 Electrical & Instrument Engineers (E&I Engineers) to join their Engineering team at their manufacturing facility in Greatham, Hartlepool, please see details below;

The Electrical & 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.

• Provide technical E&I engineering support to plant teams, taking an active role in troubleshooting, technical investigations and problem-solving activities 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, reduce costs, enhance product quality and strengthen 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 area E&I life plans, 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.

• 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…