Role: Experienced Systems engineer (LabVIEW / NI)
Location: Sheffield
Salary: Competitive + Bonus
We are systems integrators that provide bespoke hardware engineering, software development services for automated data acquisition, test, measurement, control and IIoT applications across a wide range of industries.
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
You will help customers across a wide range of applications and industries with a diversity of issues, from delivering small data acquisition systems or debugging existing client systems through to the development and onsite commissioning of complex control and data acquisition systems.
- Full lifecycle project delivery as part of a team (size of project dependent on experience)
- Providing timely, accurate and effective solutions to technical problems
- On-site installation and commissioning of both hardware and software systems
- Programming memory and speed efficient data acquisition and control applications
- Developing intuitive graphical user interfaces
- Selecting the correct measurement hardware for a given application based on a customer’s specification
- Collaborating with systems engineers, product hardware and software engineers throughout each system’s development and production life-cycle
- Troubleshooting problems in systems that include both software and hardware
- Delivering technical presentations and demonstrations to customers, colleagues and partners
- Architecture design and project management through the full project lifecycle and managing internal project teams; the complexity and size of projects will increase based on an individual’s skills and capabilities
- Working with the business development team to develop technical solutions and provide project costings based upon discussions with the client, including requirements qualification and response to RFQ’s
- Creating technical documentation in line with our quality assurance system, including specifications, test plans and user manuals
- PLC or NI instrumentation and control panel experience
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS
You must exhibit strong problem‑solving, communication and business acumen skills alongside a passion for technology. It is crucial that as part of this role you maintain a close working relationship with the team involved in building the systems to ensure that issues are quickly resolved and lessons are learned for future projects.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Degree in engineering, such as electrical/electronic engineering, mechatronics, mechanical, computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of instrumentation, control and industrial automation is required
- Demonstrable experience in measurement & instrumentation design
- Proven experience in requirements capture and writing technical proposals
- Ability to debug and solve problems on a range of systems in an efficient manner
- Experience with mainstream PLC brands (Siemens, Allen Bradley, etc) is preferred but not essential
- Desire and ability to learn new skills/programming languages/applications
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Results‑focused, action‑oriented mentality with the ability to deal effectively with customers to deliver successful project outcomes
- Ability to multitask, manage time and prioritise effectively
- Problem‑solving skills to analyse the problem following a logical and methodical approach, whilst also thinking creatively to provide a solution
- Excellent written, oral and presentation skills
- Enjoy working as a team player as well as working autonomously
OTHER
- Legal right to live and work in the UK. Valid passport for global travel
- Must hold a full clean valid UK driving licence and own vehicle to use for work travel
- Flexibility to travel throughout the UK, including at short notice, 50% of the time
DESIRABLE
- Understanding and practical experience of object‑oriented principles
- Knowledge and experience of NI hardware platforms e.g. DAQmx, cRIO, PXI and embedded systems, including LabVIEW FPGA and LabVIEW Real‑Time
- NI platform certifications e.g. CLD, CLA, CTD, CTA, CLED
- Experience in a text‑based language, Python, JAVA, C and C++ is preferred but not essential
- Ability to draw system level diagrams in a CAD package – preferably EPlan
LOCATION
Sheffield is our main office and workshop, so ideally commutable to this location but with the requirement to travel regularly to customer locations UK wide with potentially trips outside the UK (with an advanced warning).
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