Instrument Technician

Job Title: Instrument Technician

Location: Chelmsford Compressor Station (travel across the East region required)

Salary: up to £52,519 base DOE + up to 6% bonus + company vehicle + 10–15% additional earnings through overtime and standby

Permanent

Site Based

Start Date: ASAP

About the role

We're looking for an Instrumentation Technician to join our operations team supporting National Gas infrastructure across the East region.

Although based near Chelmsford Compressor Station, you'll travel throughout Essex and the Thames Estuary maintaining instrumentation and control systems across compressor stations, AGIs and pipeline assets.

You'll play a vital role in ensuring critical measurement, monitoring and control systems continue to operate safely, accurately and reliably.

Benefits:

• Salary up to £52,519 and annual performance bonus
• Double-match pension scheme (max. company contribution 12%)
• Generous holiday allowance (26 days + bank holidays)
• Flexible benefit scheme, inc. private healthcare, dental insurance, technology plans, and more
• Financial protection with 10x salary death in service and financial support if you’re unable to work due to long-term illness or injury
• Excellent family friendly provisions such as maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
• Professional development opportunities inc. financial support to help you cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions
• Employee assistance programme offering free confidential professional counselling
• 24/7 Inclusive, supportive, and forward-thinking workplace

What you'll be doing

• Maintain, calibrate and repair instrumentation and control equipment.
• Diagnose faults on transmitters, analysers, control valves and associated systems.
• Support commissioning and testing of instrumentation equipment.
• Maintain asset records and calibration documentation.
• Work safely under permit systems and manage isolations.
• Support emergency response and operational activities.
• Supervise contractors where required.
• Participate in the standby rota once fully trained, typically one week in every four or five

What you'll bring

Essential

• Proven instrumentation maintenance experience within an industrial or process environment.
• Experience calibrating and fault-finding on instrumentation and control systems.
• Good understanding of hazardous area working and safe systems of work.
• Engineering apprenticeship or equivalent with a Level 3 qualification.
• Full UK driving licence.

Desirable

• CompEx certification EX01–04
• Experience working with PLCs, SCADA or industrial control systems.
• Knowledge of pressure, flow, temperature and gas analysis instrumentation.
• Experience within gas transmission, utilities or oil & gas.
• Awareness of IEC 62443 cyber security standards.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Our clients are securing Britain’s energy. They transport gas throughout Great Britain, repair and maintain gas pipelines, and manage the meters that allow millions of homes and businesses to access the energy they need. They are the national gas network, providing secure energy to power Britain, achieve net zero, and maintain our industrial competitiveness.

If you're an Instrument Technician who enjoys solving technical problems in the field and wants to help maintain nationally important energy infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.