Shift Technical Specialist

Job Title: Shift Technical Specialist

Department: Quality & Product Development

Location: Trostre (SA14)

Salary: £24,910 plus 30% Shift Allowance (£7,473)

Shift pattern: 12-hours 2xDays, 2xNights and 4xRDO 

Closing Date: Sunday 1st March 2026

Interviews: W/C 9th March 2026

We believe that our strength is not just in our steel but the diversity of our workforce. Our people make the difference.

What you will do

As a Shift Technical Specialist, you’ll play a key role in supporting the manufacturing of Tinplate, Pickled & Oiled, and Galvanised products. Your work will help ensure our processes run smoothly, our quality stays high, and our teams have the data and insight they need to make informed decisions.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Carry out monitoring, sampling and testing across our product and process areas.
• Produce accurate reports, clearly communicating results and where required initiating follow‑up actions.
• Lead detailed technical investigations using advanced analytical techniques such as ICP, UV, AA, XRF, tensile testing and metallography.
• Track process and product performance, ensuring manufacturing teams are kept informed of any trends, issues or improvements.
• Provide essential analytical support to manufacturing cells, supporting consistent, efficient, and high-quality production.

This role is hands‑on, analytical, and central to keeping our operations running at a high standard.

What you will need

We’re looking for someone with strong technical foundations and a passion for problem‑solving. You’ll ideally bring:

• HNC-level qualification in Chemistry, Metallurgy or a related scientific/technical field.
• Solid understanding of laboratory testing and sampling procedures.
• Familiarity with plant operations and process terminology.
• Experience using analytical equipment and interpreting technical data.
• Confidence using mainframe systems and software such as databases or spreadsheets (advantageous but not essential).
• Strong communication skills – you’ll be working closely with manufacturing teams, support specialists, managers, suppliers and occasionally customers.

If you enjoy working with data, solving technical challenges, and being at the heart of manufacturing performance, this is a great opportunity to grow your expertise and make a real impact.

For a full job description or if you’d like an informal discussion, please contact: Jon.Taylor@tatasteeleurope.com 

What we can offer you

Tata Steel UK offers their employees significant benefits packages. For this role, you will benefit from:

• A market competitive salary 
• 35 days holidays per annum 
• Annual Pay Review 
• Bonus Scheme – subject to business performance 
• Ongoing Tata Steel training, which has built a reputation as one of the best within the industry
• One of the UK’s leading defined contribution pension schemes (10% employer contribution / 6% employee contribution)

We also have an extensive list of lifestyle benefits including an employee assistance programme as well as Employee discount scheme for companies including Vodafone, Jaguar Land Rover and also various local services. 

Why us?

Tata Steel is one of the world’s top 10 steel producers. The combined group has an annual aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 33 million tonnes with approximately 80,000 employees across four continents. We’re part of the Tata Group, one of the largest, most diverse conglomerates in the world with businesses in the UK including Tata Steel, Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea.

Sustainability is at the very heart of what we do and we are dedicated to managing our operations responsibly and to continuously improving our performance. Innovating for tomorrow, making a positive impact today.

Tata Steel in the UK is committed to our ambition of reducing energy consumption and to becoming a carbon neutral steelmaker by 2045, to find out more about our journey click here Stoves cooking less carbon – YouTube