Facilities: Instrumentation & Controls Technician

About our group:

Seagate is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of hard disk drives and storage solutions. Our products power everything from enterprise data centers to mobile devices and consumer electronics, enabling the world to store and access data with speed and reliability.

We’re currently seeking a Facilities Instrumentation & Controls Technician to join our cutting-edge Springtown site in Derry/Londonderry Northern Ireland . This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive individual to contribute to a high-tech, fast-paced environment where innovation and precision are key.

You’ll be at the forefront of ensuring our site meets the demands of world-class manufacturing and work environment, while maintaining the highest standards of safety, efficiency, and quality.

The Facilities Dept plays a critical role in keeping Seagate Springtown operating safely, reliably, and efficiently 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. As part of one of the region’s largest advanced manufacturing sites, our team supports the essential infrastructure, utilities, cleanroom systems, environmental controls, and building services that enable high-tech production to continue without interruption.

Our work is varied, fast-paced, and highly visible. From responding to operational issues and maintaining critical systems, to improving reliability, delivering engineering upgrades, and supporting compliance and business continuity, the Facilities team is central to site performance. Joining us, means becoming part of a skilled group whose work directly protects production, supports our people and places ethos and helps power the success of a world-class manufacturing operation.

About the role - you will:

- Maintain, troubleshoot, and repair Building Management Systems (BMS), controls, instrumentation, and associated facilities equipment.

- Monitor and optimise HVAC, utilities, and critical building services to ensure safe and reliable operation.

- Diagnose and resolve control system and instrumentation faults using system diagnostics, trends, drawings, and field investigations.

- Perform maintenance, calibration, and verification of facilities instrumentation and utility systems.

- Support and implement approved changes to control systems, graphics, alarms, and operating parameters in compliance with site procedures.

- Assist with the integration, commissioning, and support of new automation, controls, and instrumentation systems for facility upgrades and capital projects.

- Maintain accurate maintenance records, calibration data, system backups, and asset information.

- Collaborate with engineers, operations teams, and contractors to improve plant reliability, resolve issues, and support safe work execution.

- Support contractor management, permit-to-work activities, and project delivery while ensuring compliance with EHS and engineering standards.

- Contribute to preventative maintenance programmes, continuous improvement initiatives, energy efficiency projects, and out-of-hours support when required.

About you:

- Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings, control schematics, P&IDs, panel layouts, and equipment manuals to support safe and effective troubleshooting.

- Clear understanding of EHS requirements, permit-to-work processes, isolation practices, and safe systems of work.

- Good communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly, record work accurately, and escalate risks or equipment concerns when required.

- Adaptable, hands-on, and comfortable responding to changing priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing support environment.

Your experience includes:

- Time-served Electrician, Instrumentation & Controls Technician, or equivalent trade-qualified background with relevant industrial experience.

- Experience with TREND control systems, including IQ Vision, IQ3/IQ4 controllers and graphical interfaces

- Practical experience maintaining, fault-finding, and repairing electrical, instrumentation, control panel, BMS, and field device systems in a manufacturing or facilities environment.

You may also have:

While not essential, the following would be advantageous and may be used for shortlisting:

- Experience maintaining factory-critical systems that support 24/7/365 operations.

- TREND certified

- Networking knowledge for building automation systems, including BACnet/IP, Modbus, controllers, switches, and related communication infrastructure.

- Experience maintaining, replacing and programing Variable Speed Drives & MCC panels

Working Pattern : Monday–Friday, Days (08:00–17:00) Hours: 39 hours per week

Completed applications should be submitted no later than midnight on Sunday 8th November.

This is a Full-Time position working 39 hours per week, onsite in our Springtown Office in Derry/Londonderry.

*Please note that you must be eligible to live and work in the UK. without the requirement to be sponsored by Seagate. This role does not meet the criteria set by the Home Office for sponsorship on a Skilled Worker Visa as such sponsorship of this visa cannot be offered.

At Seagate we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. To see all vacancies that Seagate has available, please sign up - Register your interest for career updates with our Talent Network and to be considered for future opportunities: Seagate Careers

Seagate Technology is committed to equal opportunity in employment and welcomes applications from all sections of the community irrespective of sex, marital status, religious affiliation, age, disability or ethnic origin. The Company specifically welcomes applications from the protestant community who are currently underrepresented in this job category. All applications will be considered strictly on the basis of merit.

Location:

Springtown Northern Ireland.

Our Springtown site is Derry/Londonderry’s largest manufacturer, we’re proud that Seagate is a flexible and inclusive place to work

Here at work, you can grab breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks at our subsidized on-site cafe .

Looking for an active break from your workday? We’ve got you covered. Take a group or individual exercise class during lunch or after work at our on-site gym .

Network with your colleagues through the Young Professionals Network, Women’s Leadership Group, the Carers Café (for caregivers of individuals with disabilities), Volunteer in the community with our support! Join our creative network, which includes a choir, foreign language classes and even a cookery class!

Join our Employee Resource Groups (ERG), a voluntary, employee-led community built on a shared diversity identity and/or an appreciation of that identity, open to ALL current employees at Seagate!

See list below of many of our Springtown Company Benefits:

- Health – Private Healthcare, for employees and dependents, Company sick pay and medical leave, Occupational healthcare service, Employee assistance programmes, Group income protection and On-site gym/ exercise classes / personal trainer.

- Work Life Balance – Annual leave, Flexible working hours, Part-time working, Enhanced maternity pay, Enhanced paternity pay, Bereavement leave.

- Finance – Pension – employer contributory scheme, Life assurance, Employee stock purchase plan, Competitive base pay, Company bonus scheme, Reward and recognition, Employee savings scheme, Perks at work discount programmes, Employee discount scheme, Pay for civil / jury duty.

- Career – Degree / non degree assistance Externally accredited training and development opportunities, Service awards, Udemy learning, Learning & development programmes.

Location : Springtown, United Kingdom
Travel : None