C&I Technician

C&I Technician / Chemicals / Manchester / Contract - minimum 6 months / £negotiable / Inside IR35

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Controls & Instrumentation (C&I) Technician to join an Upper Tier COMAH site. This is a key role supporting the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of high-hazard process plant equipment.

You will be responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving, control and instrumentation systems, playing a vital part in keeping the site running efficiently and safely. Working within a small, close-knit engineering team, you’ll contribute to both day-to-day maintenance and longer-term improvement projects (Installations).

Key Responsibilities

As a C&I Technician, your responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out planned preventative and breakdown maintenance on instrumentation and control systems within a chemical manufacturing environment 
• Diagnosing faults and carrying out corrective repairs to minimise downtime
• Working in full compliance with site health, safety, and environmental standards, including the Permit to Work system
• Managing work orders, preventive maintenance activities, and time recording through the Engineering Management System
• Supporting wider engineering activities across the site as required
• Fault-finding on PLCs, DCS
• Maintenance across field instrumentation (level, temp, flow, pressure).
• Instrument calibrations (Analyser exposure - desirable) 

Qualifications & Certifications

Essential:

• NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical Installation or a related discipline
• CompEx Ex01–Ex06 (Desirable) 

Benefits:

• We are open to discussing rates
• Minimum 6 months work with likelihood to extend.