National Gas Services
Operations Technician - Instrumentation
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Location: Kirriemuir
Salary: £44,642 – £52,519 - OTE: £55,000 – £60,000 (including standby & authorisations)
About The Role
As an Instrumentation Operations Technician, you’ll play a key role in the safe and reliable operation of National Gas’ transmission assets, based from Kirriemuir and supporting a wider operational area that includes regular travel to AGI (Above Ground Installation) sites.
This role has a strong focus on process instrumentation, supporting assets including pipelines, AGIs, compressor stations, and terminals. You’ll be responsible for maintaining, inspecting, calibrating, commissioning, and fault-finding instrumentation and associated control systems critical to gas transmission operations.
The role offers autonomy, technical variety, and long-term development, including opportunities to broaden into multi-skilled operations and, where appropriate, develop electrical certification capability.
Key responsibilities
- Maintain, inspect, calibrate, and fault-find process instrumentation (pressure, temperature, flow, level, analysers, transmitters)
- Support inspection, testing, and verification of control and safety-critical instrumentation
- Carry out work within hazardous areas, ensuring compliance with standards and legislation
- Support commissioning, upgrades, and modifications at AGI and regional operational sites
- Travel as required to support AGIs and associated gas transmission assets
- Participate in a 1-in-4 standby/on-call rota, supporting fault response and emergencies
- Work within permit-to-work systems and Safe Systems of Work
- Contribute technical input to asset integrity, reliability improvements, and projects
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Essential Experience & Qualifications
- Time-served apprenticeship or recognised training scheme in Instrumentation or EC&I
- Level 3 qualification (BTEC, City & Guilds, NVQ/SVQ or equivalent)
- Instrument maintenance and fault diagnosis experience within Oil & Gas or process industries
- Experience working in hazardous areas
- Understanding of instrumentation systems, control philosophy, and relevant legislation
- Strong Safe Systems of Work knowledge
- Full UK driving licence (essential due to travel requirements)
- Willingness to participate in a standby rota
Desirable (Strong Advantage)
- Instrumentation
- COMPEX Ex01–04
- Experience with safety-related and control instrumentation
- Electrical (Supporting)
- BS7671 (18th Edition)
- C&G 2391 / 2377 (advantageous, not essential)
Other:
- COMPEX Ex11
- Experience working on AGIs, pipelines, or gas transmission infrastructure
- Electrical experience or interest in developing
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What we can offer
- Liveride vehicle for work use
- Annual bonus of up to 6% based on personal and company performance
- 26 days’ holiday plus statutory holidays - option available to buy extra holiday day
- Generous double-match pension scheme - for every £1 you put in, we'll add £2 (max company contribution 12%)
- An optional flexible benefit scheme, including private healthcare, dental insurance, technology plans, travel insurance
- Death in service 10x your basic salary
- Financial protection if you're unable to work due to long-term illness or injury
- Excellent family-friendly provisions - maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave
- Professional development and career progression
- Employee assistance programme offering free confidential professional counselling 24 hours per day
- Financial support to help you cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, relevant to your role
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At National Gas, we are disability confident and signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant. We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need.
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