Job summary

Our client is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, food & beverage and more.

Key skills required for this role

Design, development, testing and on-site commissioning. DCS, PLC SCADA- Rockwell and Siemens

Important

Experience of the full project life cycle from system specification through design, development, testing and on-site commissioning is essential

Job description

x2 positions
Location: Chesterifeld UK

Permanent, Full time, Hybrid working.

Key Activities

• Overall technical and engineering team leadership
• Work closely with and support the Project Manager in all aspects of project technical delivery and scope management
• Lead the technical and quality requirements on projects
• Ensure project adherence to company quality processes and procedures
• Detailed task and procurement list development and leadership
• Allocate tasks to the engineering team and monitor progress
• Identification and enabling of reusable modules by standardisation and modularisation of systems where appropriate
• Prototyping of new technologies
• Training planning and support
• Mentoring of Engineers
• Support the Automation sales and proposals teams

Functions

• Central involvement in sales to projects hand-over process
• Central involvement in 1st Engineering review
• Assist PM in development of QA plan
• Assist PM in development of project Gantt chart
• Assist PM in development of initial task & procurement list
• Ongoing development & updating of detailed task & procurement lists
• Peer review documents created by the project team or other teams
• Attend contract meetings with the project manager
• Act as the main contact/client interface for the project and deputise for the PM where required
• Undertake or manage site surveys as required
• Lead outline design, upfront design studies and requirement definition for clients
• Develop FDS and DDS where required
• Develop Test Specification & design testing methodology with the team
• Develop or manage development of project modules. (Modules as identified in the design - PLC code modules, SCADA scripts, Mimics, comms drivers, etc.)
• Undertake & record ongoing engineering reviews throughout the project
• Develop site work documentation with team input as necessary (risk assessment, method statement, site test documentation)
• Develop O & M documentation - with input from project team as necessary
• Lead or manage full integrated system testing, CFAT, SAT and installation
• Undertake or manage observations, variation and reworks
• Undertake or manage packing and shipping of the system
• Undertake or manage site installation
• Undertake or manage site retesting
• Provide warranty support as necessary

Experience & Qualifications

The following experience is essential:

• Detailed experience of the full project life cycle from system specification through design, development, testing and on-site commissioning is essential
• Hands on experience of PLC and SCADA systems (Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider, AVEVA etc)
• A Degree or HND/HNC in Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Control Systems or relevant discipline
• Chartered Engineer or working towards professional registration