Controls Software Engineer

3 days ago

Stafford, United Kingdom Carbon 60 Full time

Controls Software Engineer - 6 month contract

As a controls engineer you will be expected to develop software functions across the full delivery process life cycle, with an appreciation for industry best practices, such as coding standards, code review, requirements capture, unit testing, integrationtesting.

**Responsibilities**:

- Adhere to the delivery & quality processes and guidelines
- Implement the full software life cycle (requirements, design, test specifications, implementation, unit and integration testing)
- Formal and informal engineering documentation to be created and maintained for all deliverables of the development lifecycle.
- Implement the software designs in Matlab/Simulink or C (project dependent)
- Perform unit and integration testing
- Support IST testing
- Conduct and participate in engineering design reviews
- Conduct root cause analysis on all defects
- Development of control software function
- Self-motivating, proactive and results driven approach.
- Curious, resilient and willing to learn.
- Able to work to deadlines with high quality, sense of urgency and delivery.
- Focused on delivering value to customers.
- Good problem-solving.
- Flexibility in working hours.
- Ability to work on high pressure environment.

Skills and Experience:

- Degree qualified (minimum 2:1) in an engineering discipline ideally with Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics Engineering, Controls Engineering or Computer Sciences
- Good design capability and experience in the engineering discipline of electrical and Power System.
- Model-Based Design, Code Generation and Simulation Testing (Matlab-Simulink).
- Experience in C programming
Advantageous:

- Knowledge and experience in HVDC systems
- Knowledge in controls and/or protection software
- Knowledge and experience in Agile development practices (e.g. Scrum).
- Knowledge and experience in safety critical and/or control system software development practices (e.g. IEC 61508, IEC 62304).
- Experience in JIRA and Confluence.
- Experience in Root cause analysis
- Software development and software project delivery processes.
- Test Driven Design techniques (e.g. CI/Continuous Integration, Unit, automated regression, Kits, integration and software in the loop testing).
- Experience in IEC61850 communication protocol.
- Experience of software development within a software delivery process

Specific Abilities:

- Communications: Strong oral and written communication skills in English.
- Ethics and Professionalism: Personal commitment to professional standards, recognising obligations to society, the profession and the environment.
- Team Dynamics and Facilitation: Ability to be a team player and to facilitate groups interactions.
- Planning: Ability to plan and manage own work.

The recruiter has stated that all applicants for this job should be able to prove they are legally entitled to work in the UK. Carbon60 is a trading name of Carbon60 Limited an Employment Business/Agency.

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