Lead Automation Engineer

2 days ago

Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom Bilfinger Full time
About the Role

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across various industries. 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.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead and motivate the project engineering team, taking full responsibility for successful technical delivery of a complete project solution to the agreed scope in accordance with company procedures while meeting budgetary and time-scale targets.
  • Be a committed and enthusiastic team member, 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
  • Overall technical and engineering team leadership.
  • Work closely with and support the Project Manager in all aspects of project technical delivery and scope management.
  • Ensure project technical and quality requirements are met.
  • Ensure project adherence to company quality processes and procedures.
  • Detailed task and procurement list development and leadership.
  • Allocate tasks to the engineering team and monitor progress.
  • Identification of project opportunities and variations.
  • Support the Project Manager in identifying and managing risks and issues.
  • Support the Project Manager in the project delivery strategy development and planning.
  • Identification and enabling 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 in business development.
  • Provide Health and Safety leadership by example.
Experience and 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 is essential.
  • Development and 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.
  • C#,.NET, Python, JavaScript, CSS, etc.
  • Industrial Protocol Knowledge (OPC, IEC 61850, Profinet, Modbus, etc).

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