Graduate - Chemical Engineer

Graduate Programme – Technology/Chemical Engineer

Location: Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, Ellesmere Port

Employment Type: Site Based Full Time Role 5 days per week Monday-Friday

Start Date: October Year Fixed Term)

• Competitive salary starting at £30,000 per annum
• 10% salary uplift following a successful annual performance review, each year while on the graduate program
• 10% Company Contribution Pension
• 25 days of holiday, increasing with service
• Private Medical Insurance
• Additional Flex Benefits, including Holiday Purchase
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme with exclusive discounts
• Free secure on-site car parking

About the Company

Do you want to work for the company that's playing a leading role in delivering the North West's low carbon future?  EET Fuels (Trading name of Essar Oil (UK) Limited) produces over 16% of the UK's road transport fuels, provides key feedstocks to Britain's petrochemical industry and is investing in developing low carbon fuels.

We are a major supplier in the North West and beyond with customers including most of the major retail brands operated by international oil companies and supermarkets, Manchester Airport, leading commercial airlines and the region's trains and buses.

And we're central to the innovative HyNet project which is redefining energy to achieve our regional low carbon ambitions and national policy targets. 

We employ over 800 expert and engaged colleagues, who are at the heart of everything we do.  The company has an embedded safety culture, technically challenging work across all the different parts of the business and some of the best training available in the energy industry.

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Graduate Programme - a three-year programme, consisting of internal placements designed to provide a breadth of exposure across a focus of the business. The rotational style of the programme is designed to give you a rounded view and exposure within the Technology function of the business, whilst allowing you the opportunity to learn, understand and support the functions you operate within during your programme.  Your Graduate Programme will be designed to allow you to get a deep insight into the workings and processes of the Production Units and responsibilities of the chemical engineers on site, supporting the refinery unit production such as monitoring and assessing refinery units' performance and providing technical advice and recommendations.

The Graduate programme is accredited by the Institution of Chemical Engineers and Graduates are actively encouraged to work towards Chartered Status with the IChemE. You will be assigned an IChemE Chartered mentor from within Technology who will support you in taking the first steps towards Chartership.

This programme will allow the successful Graduate to see the process life cycle of our products, as well as providing solid technical knowledge as the foundation for a successful career at EET Fuels.

About You

Our ideal candidate will be a Graduate with a relevant Degree in a related field with at least a 2:1 Grading. Our ideal candidates will be highly driven, dedicated and focused individuals, who are willing to learn and develop within Essar. They will be required to be highly literate, with exceptional IT skills in Microsoft programmes.

Successful candidates will be required to be confident communicators, both in written and verbal styles, and hold the confidence to present to a wide variety of Stakeholders; both internally and externally. Resilience and willingness to take responsibility will be highly sought after characteristics within our successful candidate.

Application Deadline: Thursday 15th January 2026. Please note, the application deadline is subject to change and may close earlier depending on application volumes.

Please note, we work with a carefully selected set of recruitment agencies and we are not looking to add to the current preferred suppliers list. We are unable to accept representations from agencies that are not on that preferred supplier list.