# Controls and Instrumentation

**Company**: UK Health Security Agency
**Location**: Colindale
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £60,494 to £70,566 a year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Reporting directly to the Head of Site, the Controls and Instrumentation role serves as the technical authority for the site's Control and Instrumentation (C&I) systems and assets.

The role is responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable and efficient operation of critical national infrastructure within a large and complex scientific research facility in Colindale.

The postholder will translate complex technical information into clear, concise and accessible information for a wide range of stakeholders, providing assurance that C&I assets are being effectively maintained and managed throughout their lifecycle.

Building and maintaining strong relationships across the organisation will be essential, particularly with scientific and operational stakeholders, to ensure confidence in the performance, reliability and resilience of critical systems and services.

**Main duties of the job**

- Ensure compliance with UKHSA engineering policies, statutory requirements, and industry best practice, maintaining the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of C&I assets.

- Provide technical oversight of maintenance activities, including installation, commissioning, calibration, fault diagnosis, repair, and lifecycle replacement of C&I systems.

- Manage and provide technical assurance for Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) assets, ensuring alignment with ISA/IEC 62443 principles and HSE guidance.

- Provide specialist engineering input to strategic planning, capital projects, and infrastructure developments to support current and future operational needs.

- Develop and continuously improve engineering standards, procedures, and maintenance strategies, ensuring compliance with regulatory and organisational requirements.

- Analyse asset performance and maintenance data to drive continuous improvement, optimise reliability, and improve asset resilience and value.

- Act as the subject matter expert for Control and Instrumentation systems, providing technical advice and assurance to engineering, scientific, and project teams.

- Build effective relationships with stakeholders, communicating complex technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

**Benefits**

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

**Requirements**

- Degree, HNC/HND, or equivalent qualification in Control & Instrumentation, Electrical, Electronic, Automation, or a related engineering discipline.

- Membership of a recognised professional engineering institution (e.g. IET, IChemE, IMechE) with Chartered Engineer status, or demonstrable progress towards chartership.

- Knowledge of Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS), including awareness of operational technology cyber security principles and associated risks.

- Significant experience managing and maintaining complex engineering assets within a regulated, industrial, scientific, or critical infrastructure environment.

- Strong technical knowledge of Control and Instrumentation systems, including maintenance, fault finding, commissioning, and asset performance improvement.

## Skills

### Required
- Control and Instrumentation
- Industrial Automation and Control Systems
- ISA/IEC 62443
- engineering risk assessments
- method statements
- technical procedures

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