Bilfinger UK
Senior System Engineer (Automation)
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Senior Systems Engineer – Automation (Fareham)
About Bilfinger UK
Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables, and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring high availability and reducing maintenance costs.
With extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities, we specialise in asset management services across all life cycle phases, including:
- Consulting
- Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Assembly
- Operations
- Maintenance
- Decommissioning
Our mission is supported by a 4,500-strong workforce operating from 14 offices across key industrial hubs, maintaining the highest standards of safety, compliance, and quality.
About the Role
Our Automation teams deliver projects across industries such as:
- Nuclear
- Oil & Gas
- Food & Beverage
- Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
- Energy/Renewables
- Utilities
- Data Centres
Our teams in Chesterfield, Fareham, and Warrington leverage a wide range of technologies, including Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider, AVEVA, and Ignition, to provide solutions such as:
- PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers)
- HMI (Human-Machine Interface)
- SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)
- MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems)
- Batch control
- Functional safety
- OT (Operational Technology) cyber security
- Industry 4.0
As part of our continued growth, we seek a Senior Systems Engineer to join the Fareham team.
Key Responsibilities
The Senior Systems Engineer will:
- Drive technical delivery of complete projects in line with the agreed scope, company procedures, budgetary targets, and timeframes.
- Be pro-active, allocating tasks, supervising team members, and monitoring progress to support the Project Manager on project risks, issues, and status updates.
- Collaborate with the Project Manager and engineering team to ensure smooth execution through the agreed project lifecycle.
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Core Key Activities
- Technical delivery leadership of projects.
- Close collaboration with the Project Manager on technical scope, quality, and project management.
- Task allocation to the engineering team with progress reviews.
- Ensuring technical and quality requirements are met, including adherence to company processes and procedures.
- Identifying project variations and opportunities for optimisation.
- Assisting the Project Manager in risk and issue management.
- Enhancing project efficiency through modularisation and standardisation of systems where applicable.
- Prototyping new technologies.
- Training planning and delivery.
- Mentoring junior engineers.
- Supporting automation sales and proposal teams.
- Facilitating Health and Safety through leading by example.
Functional Duties
A Senior Systems Engineer typically performs the following:
- Transitioning sales engagement to project handover.
- Contributing to the project Quality Plan with the Project Manager.
- Maintaining task and procurement lists, ensuring updates as needed.
- Conducting peer reviews of project documentation.
- Undertaking site surveys as required.
- Defining technical solutions, including:
- Outline design
- Upfront design studies
- Client requirement definitions
- Functional Design Specification (FDS)
- Design Description Specification (DDS)
- Test specification development
- Test methodology design
- Developing project modules, including:
- PLC code modules
- SCADA scripts and simulations (e.g., Mimics)
- Communication drivers
- Supporting site documentation, such as:
- Risk assessments
- Method statements
- Testing procedures
- Producing Operations & Maintenance (O&M) documentation.
- Conducting full integrated system testing, including:
- CAuT (Collaborative Acceptance Test)
- Site Acceptance Testing (SAT)
- Installation support
- Identifying observations, variations, and necessary rework.
- Assisting in site installation and commissioning.
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Experience & Qualifications
Essential
- Deep experience in the full project lifecycle, covering system specification, design, development, testing, and on-site commissioning.
- Development of detailed design documentation.
- Hands-on experience in PLC and SCADA system implementation.
- Strong background in Control Panels, Electrical Installation, and Instrumentation.
- Degree, HND, or HNC in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Control Systems, or a related discipline.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or working towards professional registration.
Desirable
- Experience with Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider, AVEVA, or Ignition PLC/SCADA systems.
- Exposure to MQTT and IoT systems.
- Familiarity with historians (data logging & analysis systems).
- Experience in database implementation and management.
- Ethernet network design and configuration skills.
- Knowledge of IT hardware & software, including cloud/on-prem configurations.
- Understanding of virtualised platforms (e.g., VMware, ESXi).
- Background in OT cybersecurity.
- Exposure to Functional Safety (e.g., IEC 61511).
- Industrial protocol knowledge, including:
- OPC
- IEC 61850
- Profinet
- Modbus
Next Steps
To speak with our Recruitment Team, contact 01224 246246.
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