Senior Instrumentation Technician

Location**:Antrim, Northern Ireland**

Salary**:£45.5k - £56.8k (dependent on skills & qualifications)**

Reference**:REQ2699**

Do you want to be a part of an innovative and supportive team, where there are great opportunities for career progression and development?

We are looking for a Senior Network Technician to join our Maintenance team based in Northern Ireland.

**What will you be doing day to day?**

You will be involved in the maintenance and repair of installations and equipment of various sizes and operating pressures in hazardous and non-hazardous areas within SGN’s Gas Network.

You will be required to carry out on-site inspections, post maintenance audits, fault finding and repair of Electrical and Instrumentation systems, testing and commissioning of minor project works, ensuring all tasks involving electrical and instrumentationsystems and equipment are carried out in accordance with DSEAR and the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989.

Management of a small number of personnel, including mentoring and development.

Participation in an operational standby rota, for which you will receive appropriate renumeration.

**What you’ll need**

You will have completed a recognised Instrument Apprenticeship, or NVQ level 3 (or above) in electrical / electronic / instrumentation engineering.

You will be highly motivated with a flexible and positive approach to work. You will have good leadership, organisational, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills and be able to act on your own initiative.

The applicant will ideally have a good understanding of offtake, pressure reduction sites (PRS), BIO processes, high accuracy FISCAL / FWACV Gas metering systems and Odorant Injection Systems.

You will be hardworking, reliable, practical and display good leadership skills.

You will be an effective communicator at all levels and ideally you will have supervisory and mentoring experience.

You must have a full valid driving licence as this role will involve travel throughout Northern Ireland and on occasions across Scotland.

If you don’t have all the qualifications, we would still love to hear from youwe provide our own specialised learning and development programs, providing access to learning tools to help you acquire the skills needed to excel in our environment.

**What’s in it for you?**
- Job security and genuine learning and development opportunities
- Holiday and sickness package
- HolidayPlus - Buy up to 10 additional days holiday, available all year round
- Retail & leisure discounts
- Cycle2work scheme
- Company pension scheme - with company contributions between 6 -12% (depending on length of service and personal % contribution)
- Gym & mobile discounts
- Virtual GP - Our GP Helpline is a virtual GP service which offers unlimited access to GP at a time which suits you.

**What we do**

We’re on a journey to transform the future of gas and we think outside the box - futuristic technologies and robotics are leading our innovation. Keeping our customers safe and warm is what we do but beyond that, we want to make the world a better place,which is why we’re passionate about helping in our communities, reducing our carbon footprint and driving innovation in our industry.

At SGN, we strive to sustain our world through managing the network that distributes natural and green gas across the south of England and Scotland. We have an important responsibility to keep the gas flowing to 5.9 million homes and businesses. Your workdirectly impacts SGNs commitments to keeping our customers’ homes and businesses safe.

**SGN is an Equal Opportunities Employer**

Fostering a diverse and inclusive culture is something we are passionate about working towards at SGN. We want our workplace to be an innovative and inclusive place to work, where every single person feels empowered to achieve professional success. We arecommitted to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, pregnancy, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, medical history, skin colour, marital status, genetic information or parental status. We base all our employmentdecisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.