Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.
We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.
This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.
Role Profile
Our Automation teams deliver projects in various industries including Nuclear, Oil & Gas, Food & Beverage, Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, Energy/Renewables, Data Centres and Utilities. Our teams across Chesterfield, Fareham and Warrington deliver solutions using a wide array of technology including Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider, AVEVA, Ignition and many more. These solutions include PLC, HMI, SCADA, MES, Batch, Functional Safety, OT Cyber Security and Industry 4.0. As part of our continued growth in Automation, we are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team in Fareham. The Senior Systems Engineer will:
- Be a committed and enthusiastic member of the team, taking full responsibility for successful technical delivery of a complete project solution to the agreed scope in accordance with company procedures whilst meeting budgetary and time‑scale targets.
- Be pro‑active, and able to allocate tasks among team members and supervise, assist and monitor task progress and advise the project manager on progress, risks and issues.
- Work co‑operatively with the Project Manager and engineering team to ensure smooth project progress in accordance with the agreed project lifecycle.
Key Activities
- Responsible for the technical delivery of projects
- Work closely with and support the Project Manager in all aspects of project technical delivery and scope management
- Allocate tasks to the engineering team and monitor progress
- Responsible for meeting the technical and quality requirements of projects
- Ensure project adherence to company quality processes and procedures
- Identify project opportunities and variations
- Support the Project Manager in identifying and managing risks and issues
- Identify and enable use 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
- Provide Health and Safety leadership by example
Functions
- Involvement in sales to projects hand‑over process
- Assist the Project Manager in the development of the project Quality plan
- Assist the Project Manager in the development and ongoing updates of task & procurement lists
- Peer review documents created by the project team or other teams
- Undertake site surveys as required
- Undertake outline design, upfront design studies and requirement definition for clients
- Develop FDS
- Develop DDS
- Develop test specification & design testing methodology
- Develop project modules (Modules as identified in the design – PLC code modules, SCADA scripts, Mimics, communication drivers, etc.)
- Develop site work documentation with team input as necessary (Risk assessment, method statement, site test documentation)
- Develop O & M documentation
- Undertake full integrated system testing, CFAT, SAT and installation
- Undertake observations, variation and reworks
- Undertake site installation & commissioning
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
- Development & delivery of detailed design documentation
- Hands on delivery experience of PLC and SCADA systems
- A good appreciation of Control panels, electrical installation and Instrumentation solutions
- A Degree or HND/HNC in Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Control Systems or relevant discipline
- Chartered Engineer or working towards professional registration
Experience of some or all of the following is desirable:
- PLC and SCADA experience with Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider, AVEVA or Ignition
- MQTT & IOT Systems
- Historians
- Database Implementation and Management
- Ethernet Network design and configuration
- IT hardware & Software
- Virtualised platforms such as VMware & ESXi
- OT Cyber Security
- Functional Safety
- Industrial Protocol Knowledge (OPC, IEC 61850, Profinet, Modbus, etc)
If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact 01224 246246.
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