Senior Controls & Instrumentation Engineer

Kantor Energy are currently recruiting for a Senior Controls & Instrumentation Engineer to work on various Kantor projects, based in the Kantor/Dornan London Office. Kantor are a specialist engineering contractor, who have been designing and building innovative and sustainable energy systems for clients across the UK and Ireland for over 12 years. We are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dornan Engineering Group (itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Turner Construction). Dornan are a leading Mechanical, Electrical and Instrumentation contractor with over £600m annual turnover and with projects in Ireland, Mainland Europe, the Nordics and the UK. You will join a hard-working, ambitious, innovative team and you will benefit from a supportive culture, where your ideas and contributions will be recognised.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Detailed design and site engineering for controls systems across a range of scales and types of heat network projects in the London area.
• Engagement with supply chain during initial procurement, detailed design, construction and commissioning phases to ensure optimal selection and delivery of energy centre and heat substation controls systems and instrumentation.
• Combination of engineering office-based (during detailed design phase) and site-based role (during construction phase).
• Acting as senior C&I design engineer during detailed design phase, reporting to Engineering Manager.
• Acting as lead site C&I engineer during construction phase, reporting to Project Manager.
• Review, analysis and reporting on project performance.

Experience / Qualifications required:

• Level 8 / Honours bachelor's degree in engineering.
• Min 7 years' experience in a C&I engineering role, preferably within the energy sector.
• Experience of management, and engaging at a senior level with Clients/suppliers/other stakeholders.
• Flexible and enthusiastic approach, with a willingness to take on novel challenges.
• Detailed understanding of BMS systems and PLC based control systems.
• Familiarity with Siemens and Trend control system platforms.
• Proficiency in MS Office suite, in particular MS Excel and MS Word.
• Desire to experience full project engineering lifecycle, from design through to construction, commissioning and operation.
• Willingness to engage and collaborate with a wide range of multi-disciplinary counterparties.

Why Kantor?

Kantor's mission is to deliver novel and innovative solutions within the distributed energy sector, with a focus on sustainable and low‑carbon projects. You will be contributing to this important enterprise, at a time of high projected growth throughout the energy sector. Kantor has an exciting pipeline of projects in the Heat Networks sector. The combination of the aggressive growth plans of the UK Government for Heat Networks, the strong positioning of Kantor within the sector and the ambitions of the wider Dornan/Turner groups to expand their low carbon energy sector footprint make this the ideal time to join our team. Notwithstanding our ambitious growth plans, Kantor remains a relatively small and tight‑knit team. We pride ourselves on fostering a family feel and a down to earth culture. You will thus be working with a diverse multi‑disciplinary team of engineers, with direct exposure to senior management and decision makers. As part of a tight‑knit team, you will take on responsibility and have an opportunity to deliver real value from the outset.

As part of the wider Dornan Group:

Kantor/Dornan offers ongoing educational assistance and promotes CPD, including supporting its engineers on their journey towards Chartership. Kantor/Dornan promotes collaboration through various team building, social and charity events. Kantor/Dornan are committed to employee wellbeing with our Employee Assistance Programme and an in‑house Health & Wellbeing advisor. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds feel valued and supported. Diversity in thought, culture and experience strengthens our teams and our projects.