Astute's Power Team is partnering with a leading UK energy company to recruit a Controls, Instrumentation and Cyber Security Technician for their site in Cheshire.
This role offers a salary of 53,000 to 60,000, plus 12% pension contributions, 26 days' annual leave, and private medical and dental insurance.
If you're a Controls and Instrumentation Technician with heavy industrial experience and an understanding of OT cyber security, submit your CV to apply today.
Responsibilities of the Controls, Instrumentation and Cyber Security Technician
Reporting to the Engineering and Maintenance Manager, you will:
- Support the Lead C&I Engineer in delivering the site's control and instrumentation maintenance and engineering strategy
- Carry out planned and corrective maintenance across C&I and industrial automation systems
- Investigate, diagnose and resolve faults on field instrumentation and control equipment
- Support the OT Security Engineer with routine OT security activities, including patching, antivirus updates and application control
- Support the operation and maintenance of OT security infrastructure, implementing corrective actions from audits and assessments
- Provide technical support during OT and cyber-related incidents, including fault finding and corrective actions
- Maintain OT asset inventories, network diagrams and technical records
- Prepare maintenance orders and deliver packages of work within your area of competence
Required qualifications and experience
To be considered, you must have:
- Level 3 technical apprenticeship, or equivalent experience, in C&I, automation, control engineering or cyber security
- Proven C&I, instrumentation or industrial automation maintenance experience in a heavy industrial environment
- Hands-on experience with sensors, actuators, signal conditioning equipment and industrial control systems
- Working knowledge of DCS and process control, and of OT security, including network segmentation, access control, patching and logging
- Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, panel schematics, loop drawings, logic diagrams and cause-and-effect charts
Desirable experience
It would be an advantage, but is not essential, to have:
- Experience troubleshooting PLC and DCS systems, particularly ABB 800xA
- CompEx certification
- Functional safety experience
- DSEAR experience
Salary and benefits
- Salary: 53,000 to 60,000
- Location: Cheshire
- Pension: 12% contributions
- Holiday: 26 days' annual leave
- Benefits: private medical and dental insurance
INDPOW
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