Shift Engineer PC&A

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What you will do

As a Shift Engineer, you will provide specialist Process Control & Automation (PC&A) support to maintain and enhance manufacturing assets, ensuring plant availability, reliability, and performance objectives are achieved. Acting as the senior engineering representative on shift, you will diagnose complex equipment faults, lead continuous improvement initiatives, oversee engineering activities, and ensure compliance with all health, safety, environmental, and statutory requirements. You will work closely with operations, maintenance teams, and contractors to optimise plant performance, support project delivery, and drive engineering excellence across the site.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise to diagnose and resolve complex faults within manufacturing process equipment.
• Maintain and develop Level 0-3 automation systems, including PLC, SCADA, instrumentation, data acquisition, and CCTV systems.
• Ensure PC&A maintenance activities are completed safely, on time, and to required engineering standards.
• Manage and maintain quality, environmental, and safety-critical instrumentation and control systems, ensuring compliance with legislation and company standards.
• Lead and support continuous improvement, root cause analysis, and failure reduction activities to improve plant reliability and performance.
• Act as lead engineer for minor automation and control projects and support engineering planning activities.
• Supervise engineering personnel and contractors, ensuring safe working practices and high professional standards.
• Manage planned and reactive maintenance work through SAP, ensuring work completion and backlog control.
• Support compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements including COMAH, PUWER, DSEAR, LOLER, HAVS, Process Safety, and Management of Change (MOC).
• Authorise and issue safety permits as required and promote a strong safety culture through audits and compliance activities.
• Work collaboratively with Shift Managers, Senior Operators, and day-based engineering teams to optimise plant operations and share best practice.
• Manage QA equipment, calibration activities, spare parts processes, and site radiation sources in accordance with business and legislative requirements.
• Fulfil designated responsibilities during site emergencies, incidents, or major operational events.
• Identify and implement innovative technologies and engineering solutions to support operational excellence.

What you will need

We’re looking for a proactive and technically capable engineer with a qualification in a relevant engineering discipline, ideally educated to degree level or holding an HNC/HND with significant industrial experience. You will be a confident decision-maker, capable of taking ownership of through-plant issues, leading engineering activities on shift, and understanding the wider operational impact of your decisions. Previous supervisory experience would be advantageous, along with a strong commitment to safety, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Essential & Desirable Requirements

• Degree, HNC or HND in a relevant Engineering discipline, supported by practical industrial experience.
• Ability to make informed engineering decisions and take ownership of plant performance issues.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to assess the impact of decisions across shifts and operational teams.
• Previous supervisory or team leadership experience is desirable.
• Experience using SAP for maintenance management, including work orders, notifications, spare parts, and maintenance planning.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and P&ID drawings.
• Understanding of industrial networks, IP addressing, subnets, and network topologies.
• Knowledge of quality management systems and ISO 9001 standards.
• Awareness of environmental management principles and ISO 14001 requirements.
• Experience or knowledge of process safety systems and legislation, including COMAH, HAZOP, LOPA, and SIF/SIL methodologies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering and operational teams.

Ready to make a difference?

For more information or for an informal discussion please contact: [email hidden]

Please note: You may use AI tools to help prepare your application. However, all information must be accurate and based on your own experience. We value genuine, honest responses that reflect who you are.

What we can offer you

Tata Steel UK offers their employees significant benefits packages. For this role, you will benefit from

• A market competitive salary
• 35 days holidays per annum
• Annual Pay Review
• Quarterly Bonus Scheme – subject to business performance
• Private Healthcare Scheme (Individual cover)
• One of the UK’s leading defined contribution pension schemes (10% employer contribution / 6% employee contribution)

We also have an extensive list of lifestyle benefits including free onsite parking at all of our sites, an employee assistance programme as well as Employee discount scheme for companies including Vodafone, Jaguar Land Rover and also various local services.

Why us?

Tata Steel is one of the world’s top 10 steel producers. The combined group has an annual aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 33 million tonnes with approximately 80,000 employees across four continents. We’re part of the Tata Group, one of the largest, most diverse conglomerates in the world with businesses in the UK including Tata Steel, Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea.

Sustainability is at the very heart of what we do and we are dedicated to managing our operations responsibly and to continuously improving our performance. Innovating for tomorrow, making a positive impact today.

Tata Steel in the UK is committed to our ambition of reducing energy consumption and to becoming a carbon neutral steelmaker by 2045, to find out more about our journey click here Stoves cooking less carbon – YouTube

To learn more about who we are and what we can offer our future employees, please click on the link to watch the following video: Tata Steel – A place you can thrive – YouTube