Control and Instrumentation Engineer in Middlesbrough

Start your sustainable career with Vital Energi at Port Clarence! We are transforming Energy from Waste, helping power local communities, and protecting the planet for future generations. Join us and be part of the future of energy.

The Opportunity

We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a talented and experienced Control and Instrumentation (C&I) Engineer to join our team at our new energy from waste infrastructure, Port Clarence biomass facility in Teesside. In this role, you will be responsible for all aspects of C&I Engineering and maintenance within the plant covering DCS, PLC's instrumentation out in the field relating to boilers, turbines, fuel handling and all balance of plant.

You will collaborate closely with Electrical and Mechanical Engineers to ensure the optimal long-term availability of the plant, preserve asset value, and uphold all health, safety, and environmental obligations. If you are a dedicated professional with a passion for engineering excellence and plant reliability, this is your chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Vital Energi - Port Clarence - Strategic asset ownership journey

Port Clarence represents the next phase of Vital Energi's evolution from energy solutions provider to significant asset owner, processing 320,000 tonnes of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) and producing over 30Mwe. This marks a substantial step-change in scale and ambition. Vital Energi will further invest in the optimisation of the Drakelow EfW plant to improve its productivity and returns, ensuring it continues to deliver robust operational and financial performance as part of the company's growing portfolio. The energy generated by both facilities will be exported back to the national grid.

The Role

• Delivers and maintains high standards relating to health and safety performance and culture, environmental compliance and site housekeeping.
• Comply with and actively participate in Company rules, procedures, initiatives, particularly those relating to Health, Safety, environmental management, quality systems and continuous improvement.
• Complies fully with corporate safety rules, site safety rules and associated safe systems of work, PTW, LOTO, RAMS & authorization procedures to ensure that the plant is always maintained within prescribed Health, Safety and Environmental constraints and guidelines.
• Assists with the development, maintenance and implementation of operating and emergency instructions and procedures following OEM operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Ensures conformance to relevant statutory requirements.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organisation's policies and applicable laws.
• Responsible for efficient planning and execution of all C&I maintenance activities where you will work closely with the Maintenance Manager to ensure and promote productivity of power plant.
• Thoroughly and promptly investigates any accidents or near misses in conjunction with management team to ensure that any unsafe practices or conditions are addressed and eliminated immediately.
• Reports and communicates incidents as per the incident reporting systems.
• Attends team safety meetings and lead meetings where necessary.
• Keep abreast of changes to safety and environmental legislation and all relevant Company policies.
• Ensures that a work order, risk assessment and method statements are produced for each activity and that all documents are completed in accordance with the Company CMMS procedures.
• Assists in the delivery of improvements by identifying issues, making recommendations and implementing plans.
• Assists with investigations into plant and process issues including root cause analysis, providing technical expertise, evaluating process variables, maintaining records, writing reports and taking appropriate action to ensure plant operations remain within design and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures that the plant is maintained in accordance with the prescribed O&M guidelines or approved instructions following analysis of operational history and plant information.
• Works with team leaders and engineers to ensure that first line diagnosis and maintenance activities in conjunction with current procedures is carried out in order to preserve the highest levels of safety, environmental compliance, plant integrity and availability.
• Responsible for planning and managing C&I activities during plant outages.

The Person

• Have a background in engineering or process operations and hold the following qualifications: HNC/HND level or above in a Control and Instrumentation Engineering discipline and knowledge related to power generation.
• A minimum of 5 years progressively responsible experience in the power generation environment, Energy from Waste, or similar industry.
• IOSH or NEBOSH Managing Safely general certificate or similar safety qualification required as a minimum.
• Professional memberships and certifications from groups such as the Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC), Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), or similar professional bodies.
• In-depth knowledge of C&I equipment both out in the field and DCS and PLC's equipment, power generation equipment, maintenance, and repair issues.
• Knowledge with reading PIDs, electrical drawings, control and process diagrams.
• IT literate and competent to manage MS Project & complex excel-based spreadsheets.
• Knowledge and experience of working under CDM regulations will be an advantage.
• Understanding of continuous improvement philosophy and techniques and environmental compliance standards is desirable.

Applicants must have the unrestricted and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of employment, without the need for sponsorship. Due to the nature of this role, we are unable to support visa sponsorship or employ individuals with time-limited permission or conditions attached to their right to work in the UK.

The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, physical disability or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements.