Instrument Engineer
TR/080474
Posted: 07/01/2026
- PAYE - Competitive
- Scotland, Aberdeen City, Aberdeen
- Contract
Our client is currently recruiting for the position of Instrument Engineer, based in Aberdeen. This is a 12-month PAYE contract role.
Responsibilities:
Experience & Qualifications:
Contract position
If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: TR/080474.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Responsibilities:
- The primary purpose of this position is to provide discipline engineering support to UK operations to ensure equipment integrity and regularity.
- This role supports breakdowns, delivers the maintenance plan in accordance with maintenance strategy and supports plant optimisation
- Ensuring that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and company HSES Procedures
- Supports Instrument SECE degradation / threat management risk assessments and maintenance deferment risk assessments
- Responsible for monitoring equipment/system performance initiating and ensuring corrective actions.
- Responsible for discipline engineering and maintenance support to UK operations
- Provide discipline support to operated assets and project teams
- Deliver maintenance plans/programs to ensure cost effective operation and asset integrity throughout facility lifetime
- Fully adhere to planning processes to ensure ‘right first time’ delivery of instrument workscopes
- Responsible to provide budget input/scope for maintenance and modifications
- Responsible for continuously challenging technical solutions, engineering performance and cost of modification projects
- Review vendor workpacks to ensure compliance with performance standard requirements
- Coordinate & robustly manage vendors to successfully deliver planned maintenance
- Collaborate with key vendors to collectively problem solve/deliver complex scope
- Raise TWMs where complex technical solutions and modifications are required
- Provide an optimised preventive maintenance program, including detailed work packages
- Responsible for equipment performance including spare part management and warranty follow up
- Own management of change for non like-for-like instrument scopes
- Mobilise offshore as and when required by business.
- ER Allowance - The postholder may be required to join the emergency response rota should this become a requirement of the position
Experience & Qualifications:
- Educated to engineering degree level or satisfactory equivalent e.g. HND/HNC plus preferable qualifications/experience and/or vocational certificates
- Membership of professional body working towards Chartership preferred
- Operational and engineering experience preferred
- Developing relevant technical experience.
- Offshore experience
- Understanding of processes required to meet HSE objectives. Fully conversant with UK regulatory environment
- Developing understanding of company’s Corporate and Local budget, maintenance and project management processes and tools
- Self-driven. Strong personal leadership and drive toward teamwork. Ability to perform effectively within a strong peer group and to drive toward optimal business solutions
- Good communication, influencing, negotiating and networking skills. Builds excellent relationships. Respected internally and externally
Contract position
If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: TR/080474.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Anna Fryer
Senior Recruitment Consultant
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