Are you an experienced EC&I or Control Systems Engineer who wants more technical ownership than a standard maintenance role can offer?
The experience expected from applicants, as well as additional skills and qualifications needed for this job are listed below.
Were recruiting for a growing renewable energy business where youll use your expertise across Siemens PLCs, WinCC SCADA, instrumentation, DCS/SIS and industrial control networks.
Supporting a portfolio of operational biogas plants, upgrades and new projects, youll solve complex controls issues, improve plant performance and help shape the future of the companys control systems.
Why join?
- Salary up to £60,000, depending on experience
- Bonus of up to 15%
- Company car
- Private healthcare
- Employer pension contribution of up to 7.5%
- Life assurance
- Specialist technical training and development
- Varied work across operational plants and major projects
- Genuine influence over control-system reliability and standards
- Long-term career opportunity within renewable energy
What youll be doing
Working closely with Operations, Maintenance and Projects, you will:
- Programme, modify and fault-find Siemens Step7 Classic and TIA Portal
- Support and develop WinCC SCADA
- Calibrate and fault-find process instrumentation
- Complete loop checks, PID tuning and control optimisation
- Support DCS and Safety Instrumented Systems
- Work with virtualised and VM-based control environments
- Diagnose industrial network and communication faults
- Commission controls and instrumentation for plant upgrades and new projects
- Maintain control-system software, backups and documentation
- Support shutdowns, modifications and performance-improvement projects
- Contribute to functional safety, HAZOP, LOPA and DSEAR activities
- Help strengthen OT cyber security and system resilience
What were looking for
This position requires more than general PLC or SCADA maintenance experience. Youll need a strong, practical background in:
- Siemens Step7 Classic and TIA Portal
- WinCC SCADA
- PLC programming and modification
- Instrumentation, calibration and fault-finding
- Loop checking and PID tuning
- DCS and/or Safety Instrumented Systems
- Control-system commissioning
- Virtualised or VM-based control systems
- Heavy industrial, energy or process environments
Youll ideally hold an apprenticeship, HNC, HND or equivalent qualification in electrical, control, instrumentation or automation engineering.
Even better if you have
- CompEx, ATEX, DSEAR or hazardous-area experience
- OT or industrial networking experience
- Industrial control-system cyber security knowledge
- Process safety or functional-safety experience
- Siemens PCS7
- Profibus, Profinet, Modbus, OPC or industrial Ethernet
- VMware or Hyper-V
Relevant backgrounds could include biogas, anaerobic digestion, power generation, Energy from Waste, chemicals, petrochemicals, oil and gas, utilities, water treatment or automated process manufacturing. xiskglj
If youre a Control Systems Engineer, EC&I Engineer, C&I Engineer, Automation Engineer or Instrumentation Engineer looking for a technically challenging role with real variety and influence, wed like to hear from you.
Apply today for a confidential discussion.
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