Belcan currently have a permanent opportunity with our client based in Warrington for a Senior Systems Engineer. The Senior Engineer should work co-operatively with the Project Manager and engineering team to ensure smooth project progress in accordance with the agreed project lifecycle.
Role
- 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 modularization of systems where appropriate
- Prototyping of new technologies
- Training planning and support
- Mentoring of Engineers
- Sales support
- Support the Automation sales team and support department business development
- Provide Health and Safety leadership by example
Functions
The Senior Engineer is normally expected to undertake the following:
- Involvement in sales to projects hand-over process
- 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 as required
- Undertake site surveys as required
- Undertake outline design, upfront design studies and requirement definition for clients
- Develop FDS
A minimum 5 years' experience of developing integrated control system solutions.
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
- A good appreciation of Control panels, electrical installation and Instrumentation solutions.
Experience of some or all of the following is desirable:
- DCS
- Drives
- Plant Historians
- MES
- Industry 4.0
- IOT and Edge Computing (NodeRed, MQTT etc)
- IT/OT Convergence
- Network design and configuration
- Cyber Security
- Functional Safety
- Database implementation
- Batch & Recipe Systems
- Energy Efficiency and OEE
- Industrial Protocol Knowledge (IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, OPC etc)
- Bespoke code development
This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan.
