A process operator plays a crucial role in ensuring that products manufactured under their supervision adhere to the prescribed specifications and meet the expected quality standards. This involves overseeing the entire production process, from its initiation to completion. Typically, you will collaborate within a production team, taking on the responsibility of maintaining the health and safety standards for both the process itself and your fellow colleagues

A mechanical engineering maintenance technician holds the responsibility of regularly inspecting and servicing plant machinery to ensure the industrial machinery and equipment runs smoothly and reliably. This could be either as part of a routine schedule or in response to equipment faults or breakdowns. This role often entails investigating the root causes of faults and preparing reports to communicate findings and solutions to colleagues. Additionally, the position may involve the commissioning and decommissioning of plant equipment.

An Electrical Engineering Technician involves the installation, scheduled maintenance, and repair, as well as preventative repairs of electrical systems. Ensuring that risk assessments are completed and all safety standards are adhered to.  Often this role could include the design and development of new electrical equipment and control systems, with testing and commissioning to ensure the systems are safe to run and perform as they should.

As a Instrumentation engineering technician, you will specialise in installing machinery and tools. Testing, calibrating, and inspecting manufacturing equipment and monitoring devices, performing routine maintenance tasks, and designing new ways of improving the manufacturing process to meet specifications and budget requirements.

Our industrial manufacturing industries are critical to the UK economy, with many businesses on-shoring manufacturing processes,  many choosing the Yorkshire and Humber region as their base. High salaries and generous work benefits coupled with job satisfaction, make a career in industry a desirable choice for many.

Process Operations – observation and recording skills, attention to details, to be thorough and follow procedure, operate, and control equipment, thinking and reasoning skills, planning, use computer-controlled equipment and handheld devices, ability use hand tools, troubleshooting, repair and maintain systems, work under pressure, read and interpret drawings and plans for systems.

Mechanical Maintenance engineering technician – ability to use, repair and maintain machines, testing and fault diagnosis, use equipment and tools, hand eye co-ordination, problem solving skills, work with others, ability to work on your own, patience, remain calm in stressful situations, troubleshooting, read and interpret drawings and schematics, time management, resources management, materials identification, types of defects.

Electrical Engineering Technician – the ability to use, repair and maintain electrical systems, testing and fault diagnosis, use equipment and tools, hand eye co-ordination, problem solving skills, work with others, ability to work on your own, patience, remain calm in stressful situations, troubleshooting, read and interpret drawings and schematics, time management, resources management, materials identification, types of defects, analytical thinking,

Instrumentation Engineering Technician – troubleshooting, calibration, work with a variety of devices to measure and control pressure, flow, temperature, level, motion, force, testing techniques, installation, repair and inspection of manufacturing equipment and monitoring devices, maintenance skills, potentially the design of new measuring and recording equipment, process control, data gathering and manipulation, , how to investigate, diagnose, correct and document instrumentation or system malfunctions.

The initial training for Process Operators is usually around two to three years, electrical, mechanical and instrument technicians, usually train for around three to four years. However, you may wish to achieve higher level qualifications and that will extend your training period, depending on what level you wish to reach.