Ineos Acetyls is a business engaged in the entire petrochemical value chain from manufacturing through to marketing and sales. It is one of the world's leading manufacturers of acetic acid and its derivatives, and owns & deploys its leading technology in Europe, Asia, and US.

Ineos Acetyls Hull Site is the European manufacturing facility and is of strategic importance to the global business, with a focus on manufacturing petrochemicals as well as research & technology.

The European Acetyls market is forecast to grow steadily over the next few years and the business is committed to a sustainable growth agenda to capture a substantial portion of this market growth. Our core product range is Acetic Acid and Acetic Anhydride.

The EtAc plant is a top tier COMAH registered plant and the job holder has a key role in ensuring the plant is operated safely to meet the company’s and the regulator’s expectations with safety performance and operational integrity.

The competency assurance of the manufacturing personnel is critical to ensure that the INEOS thyl Acetate asset can be operated safely and reliably.

The EtAc plant is part of the INEOS Acetyls business. Reliable and efficient plant operation are key measures of asset performance that need to be achieved to ensure business requirements are met.

The post holder will provide a day based engineering support service to the EtAc asset at the INEOS Hull site. They will be required to work with minimal supervision as part of a team of operations, instrument, electrical and mechanical personnel and have the ability to maximise the reliability and availability of the INEOS assets and ensure SHE targets are met. This requires
the application of practical and organisational skills to resolve maintenance issues.

Key Accountabilities:

Uphold the “INEOS 20 BEHAVIOURAL & PROCESS SAFETY PRINCIPLES” & “Life Saving Rules” in all activities undertaken.
Interact with the INEOS Maintenance Coordinator, discipline engineers and operations technicians to be advised of and understand daily plant issues, abiility to act on these and deliver solutions.
Work with permit signatories on a daily basis to discuss and prepare permit requests, method statements and risk assessments.
Regularly liaise with other trade disciplines and also the supervisors for scaffolding and lagging, when they are required to support specific jobs. This often necessitates coordination of their work and permit requirements.
Act as task supervisor within the INEOS permit system.
Fault finding following equipment failure, identifying problems and then have the ability to
resolve these within a specified timescale whilst minimising costs. This may include organising spares, labour and third party interaction upfront to minimise downtime.
Practising of Preventative Maintenance and use of specialised equipment, including:
Hazardous area equipment inspections to the IEC60079 standard
Responsible for the maintenance of safety critical equipment used in the detection of toxic,
flammable gases that may cause harm to personnel, plant or equipment if left undetected.
The ability to repair and maintain, calibrate, inspect and modify process analysers and
sample systems including NIR and GC as well as pH and conductivity analysers.
First line fault finding on instrument and analyser systems.
Electronic recording of maintenance activities and interacting with the IT Systems, including:
Knowledge and use of SAP, Excel, Word, Outlook, Power point, and navigating the network
drives.
Initiating maintenance activities and recording thereof in SAP (Notifications and work order
feedback)
Recording and re-ordering of spares on IT systems.
Working within the Control of Work systems and accompanying SSO’s, including:
Familiar with all relevant Site safety Orders (SSO’S)
Familiar with Permit to work system and fulfilling the various roles as required there in
Qualify and Act as Task Supervisors
Qualify as B type Permit Acceptors
Qualify and act as A Type acceptor
Supervision and facilitating of people and work where required, including:
Act as Instrument Supervisor when required
Day to day supervision of contractors and service providers if required
Facilitating and assisting service providers when required
Supervise and facilitate job pack/project packs when required e.g. maintenance of Siemens GC analysers.
Plant reliability targets are achieved
Plant maintenance costs within budget with cost reductions year on year
All statutory and integrity inspections within due date
Objectives achieved.
Training targets achieved.
Training targets achieved.
Asset safety, reliability and overall production targets.

Level of Education & Experience in general:

Minimum qualifications of an ONC and a recognised apprenticeship NVQ3 or equivalent.
Good practical understanding of ATEX and DSEAR
Hold current CompEX certification Ex01 to Ex04.
Good practical understanding of maintaining safety instrumented systems in line with IEC 61511.
Exposure to Distributed Control Systems, Honeywell HPM/C300, FSC/SM ESD systems preferable.
Strong faulting finding skills on instrumented systems.
Experienced in acting as the Lead/Senior I&A technician.
Planning and organisational skills.

Technical Skills:

Previous experience of working within Chemical/ downstream Oil & Gas or associated
major accident hazard process industries
Functional Safety and SIL for Instrument Technicians (IEC61511) certification.
Competent in the use of IT based systems e.g. SAP, CMX, Emersons AMS, E&H Fieldcare.
Small bore / swaglok experience and certification.
Previous experience performing preventative and corrective maintenance on Analysers,
GCs, TOC, NIR systems.
Previous experience in installation and commissioning 18th edition BS7671.

Behavioural Skills:

Bias for action.
Team working skills.
Self-motivation.
Committed & enthusiastic
Setting standards for others.
Personal skills in communication.
Results orientation and performance bias

Instrument - Analyser Technician