Instrument Technician

**Job Title: Instrumentation Technician

Location: Barrow in Furness, UK

Industry: Oil and Gas

Employment Type: Contract

Client-Sided Role**
We are seeking Instrumentation Technicians to join our client in Barrow in Furness on onshore basis. The role is of 12 months contract with extension. 11-hour shifts, 7 days on, 7 days off. PAYE/Inside IR 35. Paid overtime.

Brief Job Description:
To undertake routine and non-routine engineering maintenance and defect/responsive breakdown repair tasks that ensure the reliability and scheduled availability of operational plant and equipment associated with gas production/processing and condensate storage facilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• To execute routine and non-routine maintenance activities efficiently to agreed processes/procedures and operational requirements
• Investigates complex technical problems relating to critical plant, identifies solutions and acts to return plant to normal operating service with minimal supervision
• Prepares and presents technical reports and maintains appropriate records of activities within recognised systems
• Inspection and maintenance of instrumentation equipment in hazardous areas
• Carries out commissioning and de-commissioning activities to meet planned plant operating programmes, organising and planning own and vendor work scopes
• Liaise with operational/production staff and Technicians in other disciplines to ensure a safe and effective approach to tasks within the overall operational and maintenance programme
• Trained to be competent in a range of activities ancillary to his/her core discipline.
• Supervises other staff and vendor/contractor employees in undertaking work activities.

Required Expertise:

• Great communication skills that inform/shares knowledge clearly and unambiguously and also implement and embed change. Builds rapport and is able to influence in a constructive way / skilled at influencing decision makers on complex topics.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively, within their team and across the organization and externally as required.
• Networks effectively internally and externally, creating an immediate, positive and credible impression on others. Leads other parties in conversations on the important issues and use persuasive contributions to influence change and action.
• Responsible for complex technical problem solving across Gas Production and Condensate Storage Facilities with a Capital Plant value in excess of £550 million.
• Regularly oversee on-the-job training of trainees
• Act as Performing Authority within the Centrica Safe Systems of Work Procedures.
• Supervise small teams of vendors.
• A BTEC Higher National Certificate or equivalent in an appropriate engineering subject.
• Experience of the maintenance of high-pressure process plant and equipment
• The job holder must have sufficient knowledge of procedures and be able to relate them to the work activities to ensure a safe approach and that appropriate perimetry/controls are requested and in place.