Gas Quality Engineer

The Company

EffecTech is a global leader in gas measurement with laboratory facilities in the UK. Supporting the bridge to an economy based upon 100% renewable energy, EffecTech plays a key role in the global measurement system ensuring traceability and accuracy of the analysis of transition fuels.

The Group supplies specialty gas mixtures and testing/inspection services for customers using gaseous fuels to create energy. Our customers range from large blue-chip oil and gas majors to small businesses creating biofuels from crops and other waste products. Our expertise lies in the measurement, calibration and analysis of natural gas, LNG, refinery gas, biofuels/biomethane and hydrogen-enhanced gaseous hydrocarbon fuels.

EffecTech is a sister company of BOC, the largest supplier of industrial, medical and special gases in the UK and Ireland. Both EffecTech and BOC are part of the Linde Group, a leading global industrial gases and engineering company.

The Role

Due to the continued growth and expansion of the company, EffecTech has an opportunity for a Calibration Engineer within our site services department based at EffecTech’s head office in Uttoxeter.

The role involves travelling from our head office to customers’ sites in the UK, offshore and overseas to undertake inspections and validations/calibrations on gas chromatographs and other instrumentation.

This is a great opportunity to join a world leading, well respected and expanding quality focused global business.

Essential competencies

• Must hold a full UK driving licence
• Must be willing to travel extensively (up to 35% of time), which may be at short notice when required, primarily within the UK but occasionally overseas and offshore
• May be required to move cylinders weighing up to 56 kg on certain low ramps in the laboratory/business. Appropriate training and equipment will be provided.
• Please note: applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as EffecTech is not able to sponsor visa applications.

Key competences

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, required for dealing with our clients on a regular one-to-one basis
• Sound organisational ability with the capacity to work individually or within the team on many tasks concurrently
• A genuine interest in mathematics and science
• A willingness to learn and continue to develop new skills
• Ability to follow an agreed procedure
• Formal and on the job training will be given to ensure the successful candidate has the necessary specialist skills to perform their duties

Benefits

• Excellent training and development will be given to ensure the successful candidate has the necessary specialist skills to perform their duties and to ensure continued professional development (CPD)
• Generous company and personal performance-based bonus
• Pension scheme with matching contribution from EffecTech
• 25 days' annual leave + 8 bank holidays
• Monday – Friday working week
• Once full training has been completed, the successful candidate may be able to work from home / another location when not on customer site visits

This is a great opportunity to join a world leading, well respected and expanding quality focused global business.

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