Process Optimisation Engineer (United Kingdom)

About the Position

Process Optimisation Engineer (United Kingdom)

Turn machine data into measurable gains in throughput, energy, and quality for our customers.

Location: UK home base + customer sites, UK & international

Contract: Permanent, full-time

Reports to: Sales Director

Salary: DOE

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About SPM Instrument

For more than 50 years, SPM Instrument has helped industry keep critical rotating machinery running, from the invention of the Shock Pulse Method to today's patented HD technologies, Intellinova online systems, and Condmaster software. Our customers in mining, pulp and paper, water, and wider process industries rely on us to protect their assets. More and more, they also want us to help them run those assets better.

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Responsibilities

• Process assessments: Lead on-site studies and baseline measurements of customer processes. Identify where throughput, energy use, yield, or quality can be improved.
• Application delivery: Specify, install, configure, and commission process optimisation solutions. These include tumbling mill charge and toe monitoring, vibrating screen motion analysis, woodchipper knife-condition monitoring, and centrifugal pump efficiency monitoring.
• Data analysis: Use vibration, SPM HD, HD ENV, and Condmaster to interpret process and machine data. Build dashboards and recommend changes to operating parameters, such as feed rate, screen set-up, and knife change intervals.
• Customer partnership: Present findings and business cases to operations, maintenance, and management teams. Follow up to confirm the gains have been delivered.
• Proving value: Quantify results (throughput, kWh/tonne, rejects, kWh/ML, availability). Turn them into case studies and reference sites that support sales growth.
• Sales support: Work with the sales engineers on technical pre-sales, demonstrations, proposals, and scopes of work.
• RDC integration: Help build process optimisation into SPM's Remote Diagnostic Centre services as a recurring offering.
• Knowledge sharing: Contribute to SPM Academy training, internal upskilling, and feedback to SPM product development.

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Requirements

Essential:

• 10 years+ in Mechanical, Process, Chemical, Mining, or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience improving industrial processes in a plant, operations, reliability, or field engineering role.
• A solid grasp of rotating equipment such as pumps, mills, screens, crushers, fans, and gearboxes, and how their performance affects the process.
• Confident in analysing data and turning it into clear, commercially relevant recommendations.
• Excellent communicator, as comfortable with a plant operator as with a site director.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel, including internationally.

Desirable:

• Vibration analysis certification (ISO 18436-2 Cat II or above) or condition monitoring experience.
• Experience in mining and minerals processing, pulp and paper, or water and wastewater.
• Familiarity with online monitoring systems, DCS/SCADA, or process historians.
• Energy efficiency management background (e.g., ISO 50001).

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We Offer

• Competitive salary with a company car.
• Full training on SPM's HD technologies, Intellinova, and Condmaster.
• Real work-life balance with hybrid working.
• Real influence over a growing part of the business, with visible results for customers.
• Varied, hands-on work across a wide range of industries and sites, as part of a supportive, international group.

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Ready to Make an Impact?

Send your CV and a short note about a process improvement you've delivered, and its impact, to email protected.

Closing date: 23rd October 2026

Find out more about process optimization here.

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