Senior System Engineer; Automation

Senior System Engineer (Automation)

Join Bilfinger UK, a leading engineering and maintenance provider across the chemical, petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. Bilfinger UK enhances asset efficiency to deliver high availability and reduce maintenance costs.

Our Automation teams deliver projects in various industries including Nuclear, Oil & Gas, Food & Beverage, Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, Energy/Renewables, Data Centres and Utilities. We use Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider, AVEVA, Ignition and many more technologies.

• Take full responsibility for technical delivery of complete project solutions to agreed scope.
• Proactively allocate tasks, supervise and monitor progress, and advise the project manager on risks and issues.
• Collaborate with the Project Manager and engineering team to ensure smooth project progress following the agreed project lifecycle.
• Responsible for technical delivery, scope management, quality requirements and adherence to company quality processes.
• Identify project opportunities, variations, reusable modules, prototypes of new technologies, training planning and mentoring of engineers.
• Support the Automation sales and proposals teams and provide Health and Safety leadership by example.

• Involve in sales to projects hand-over process.
• Assist the Project Manager in development of the project Quality plan and ongoing updates of task & procurement lists.
• Peer review documents, undertake site surveys, outline design studies, develop FDS, DDS, test specifications, modules, O&M documentation.
• Operate full integrated system testing, CFAT, SAT, installation, observations, variation and reworks.
• Undertake site installation & commissioning.

• 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.
• 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 with Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider, AVEVA or Ignition PLC and SCADA.
• MQTT & IoT systems, historians, database implementation, Ethernet network design.
• Virtualised platforms (VMware & ESXi), OT Cyber Security, Functional Safety, industrial protocols (OPC, IEC 61850, Profinet, Modbus).

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Bilfinger UK is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, or disability status.