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.
Contact Details:
Orange Monkey Recruitment Limited Recruitment Team
