Process Engineer
Location: Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, Ellesmere Port
Employment Type: Site Based Full Role 5 days per week Monday-Friday
* Competitive Salary
* 10% Company Contribution Pension rising to 15% with service
* 25 days Holiday, increasing with service
* Private Medical Insurance
* Additional Flex Benefits- including Holiday Purchase
* Access to Employee Assistance Programme with Exclusive access to a range of Discounts
* Free Secure on-Site Car Parking
About the Company
Do you want to work for the company that's playing a leading role in delivering the North West's low carbon future? EET Fuels (Trading name of Essar Oil (UK) Limited) produces over 16% of the UK's road transport fuels, provides key feedstocks to Britain's petrochemical industry and is investing in developing low carbon fuels.
We are a major supplier in the North West and beyond with customers including most of the major retail brands operated by international oil companies and supermarkets, Manchester Airport, leading commercial airlines and the region's trains and buses.
And we're central to the innovative HyNet project which is redefining energy to achieve our regional low carbon ambitions and national policy targets.
We employ over 800 expert and engaged colleagues, who are at the heart of everything we do. The company has an embedded safety culture, technically challenging work across all the different parts of the business and some of the best training available in the energy industry.
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The Role
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a First Line Process Engineer, you will provide timely, fit for purpose technical assurance and support across your area of responsibility, working closely with site and business functions to help maintain a safe, reliable and profitable operation. Collaborating with both operations teams and discipline engineers, you will proactively identify and resolve day‑to‑day unit optimisation challenges, focusing on issues that require hands on, on‑site technical input to keep the plant running efficiently.
Primary Accountabilities
* Monitor, assess and report on short- and long-term unit performance, including catalysts, using TPAM tools
* Identify and escalate process risks to ensure safe and reliable production
* Support operating teams through optimisation, troubleshooting, incident investigation and provision of technical guidance
* Review and challenge LP constraints, define operating limits and contribute technology input to alarm reviews
* Develop and approve technical changes via the Management of Change process
* Understand unit specifications and their impact on product quality to support internal and external customers
* Identify opportunities and support delivery and commissioning of small to medium capital projects
* Lead or contribute to technical studies aimed at improving unit performance
* Work with procurement on chemical, catalyst and consumable purchases
* Support turnaround preparation and execution, including scope definition, threat identification and equipment inspections
* Complete assigned turnaround worklist items and act as a site focal point or focus group lead when required
* Maintain ownership of key technical documentation, drawings, monitoring programmes and alarm management data
* Provide process safety assurance and expertise, participate in risk assessments and drive actions to completion
* Lead technology input for locally tracked HSE incidents
* Contribute to Goal Zero initiatives through participation in scheduled safety activities.
* Support compliance with relevant legislation, including COMAH, REACH, PPC and EU ETS.
* Act as a core team member for key site processes such as SOP development and Ensure Safe Production
About You
Our ideal candidate will bring a strong academic foundation, holding a degree in Engineering, with a MEng in Chemical Engineering considered advantageous. Chartered status, or active progress towards it, is expected as part of the role.
You will have experience working within a Chemical Engineering environment, ideally with essential exposure to petrochemical operations. Confident in interpreting and analysing large data sets, you use insights to support informed decision‑making and can influence stakeholders at all levels. You will participate in turnaround activities, provide out‑of‑hours support through duty rotas and emerging situations, and work toward gaining site signatory qualifications within a reasonable timeframe. Clear and concise communication, strong data confidence, resilience, flexibility, and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team are essential. You will be dedicated to ongoing professional development and must be able to attend site daily.
Closing Date
This vacancy will close on Monday 9th March 2026.