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Centrica • East Riding of Yorkshire | United Kingdom

System, Controls and Instrumentation Engineer

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

Join us, be part of more.

We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

About your team:

At Centrica Energy Storage +, our mission is to store it.

Our onshore and offshore teams are united in their goal, to boost the UK’s energy security and drive down bills for customers. Rough, our North Sea storage facility, currently provides half of the UK’s gas storage – enough to heat 2.4 million homes over winter. But we’re not stopping there. We’ve got our sights set on transforming it into the world's largest hydrogen storage facility and creating a Net Zero connected energy hub in the Humber.

We are seeking a highly capable System, Controls and Instrumentation Engineer (S,C&I) to support the Technical Authority in delivering safe, reliable and compliant engineering across all Centrica Energy Storage (CES) operated assets. This role plays a critical part in safeguarding technical integrity and performance, providing expert support across safety, operations, maintenance, projects and risk management.

You will contribute to the development of discipline-specific strategies, manage technical and operational risks, and ensure engineering standards, specifications and maintenance strategies are consistently applied. Working closely with projects and operations, you will help identify optimal technical solutions that align with business objectives, regulatory requirements and long-term asset strategy, while supporting verification, audit activities and technical support contracts across the discipline.

Key Accountabilities

  • Provide direct support to CES +’s operated assets. This will involve regular travel to onshore terminal and offshore assets and will also require overnight stays on offshore assets.in line operational priorities
  • Ensure technical integrity is maintained within discipline
  • Ensure appropriate standards are maintained and applied to the operational assets as well as any projects to be enacted at the assets
  • Ensure the optimum technical solution for modifications / projects are selected, aligning with strategy and ensuring solutions are designed to appropriate standards that meet operational and business requirements
  • Support and participate in Health, Safety and Environment improvements initiatives to manage people, legislative and environmental risk. Provide technical input into operational risk management. Participate in root cause analysis to resolve safety and reliability issues.
  • Will actively participate in CES + Management of change process.
  • Ensure enactment and compliance with CES + S,C&I Engineering strategy and standards.
  • Provide support and input to the S,C&I Technical Authority to ensure SECEs are identified and performance standards are fit for purpose to ensure major accident hazard risk is managed.
  • Assist the S,C&I Technical Authority in monitoring test results of performance standards to ensure major accident risk is managed

Skills and Experience

  • Experience of S,C&I Engineering within the oil and gas or Major accident hazard environment
  • Skilled in application of functional assurance processes and knowledgeable in the application of business processes
  • Practical experience in the use, updating and planning with maintenance management systems
  • A self starter, the job holder will operate with broad direction from the S, C and I Technical Authority
  • Able to apply HSE principles across technical activities associated with offshore and onshore (COMAH) environments
  • Excellent communication skills and demonstrate their ability to foster wider relationships within Centrica and wider Oil and Gas industry

Qualifications

  • Hold or willing to attain COMPEX 12 certification
  • Hold or willing to obtain TUV Functional Safety Certification
  • Hold a minimum of HNC level qualification in S, C and I Engineering

Why should you apply?

We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too. Visit the link below to discover why we’re a great place to work and what being part of more means for you.

https://www.morethanacareer.energy/energystorage

If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.


Help us, help you. We would love for you to share any information about yourself throughout our recruitment process so that we can better understand you and help shape your journey.

Company benefits

Adoption leave
Annual pay rises
Buy or sell annual leave
Car allowance – depending on the role
Carer’s leave
Company car
Compassionate leave
Critical Illness Insurance
Cycle to work scheme
Dental coverage
Employee discounts
Employee recognition scheme
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Enhanced pension match/contribution – double match company contribution, up to 10%
Enhanced sick days
Enhanced sick pay
Equity packages
Eye Care Support
Family health insurance
Fertility treatment leave
Financial coaching
Gym membership
Health insurance
Life insurance
Mental health platform access
Open to part-time employees
Optional unpaid leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Share options
Shared parental leave
Travel insurance
Travel loan
Volunteer days – 2 days per year paid
Work from anywhere scheme
Reservist leave – 10 days
Fertility benefits
Referral bonus
Annual bonus
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Learning license
In house training
Professional subscriptions
Lunch and learns
Personal development budgets
Open to compressed hours
Fertility benefits

Working at Centrica

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20,000

Gender diversity (m:f):

70:30

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