C&I Engineer

• Salary: £60,000 - £68,000 per annum
• Hybrid working: 3 days based in the office, 2 days remote working.
• Annual Company Bonus
• Annual Leave - 25 days increasing to 28 after 6 years’ service.
• Defined Contribution Pension - Employer 16% / Employee 11% (maximum)
• Life Assurance Flexitime

Our client is a leading nuclear technology company that specialise in designing and manufacturing technology for the nuclear sector. They currently require the services of a C&I Engineer to join their technical services team based in Capenhurst, Chester. 

• Carry out all duties to the highest standards of health, safety, and environmental requirements.
• Production of detailed technical specifications, including equipment functional specifications and control system logic specifications
• Generation of specifications and logic simulation programs for control system designs and simulation of control system performance
• Generation of specifications for control system hardware
• Working with subcontractors, checking and approval of detail design drawing
• Checking of suppliers’ test specifications and attendance of tests at suppliers’ factories
• Liaise with the Section Head and other specialist engineers within the section to understand the engineering requirements to ensure the satisfactory delivery of work
• Presentation of information for technical reviews
• Customer facing activities such as presentation of design information and demonstration of equipment or software at business or customer premises.
• Analyse plant process, commissioning, and test data and to establish areas for performance and efficiency improvements.
• Develop and maintain core reference design standards for all aspects of control system design.
• Capability to develop project proposals including schedule and cost forecasts.
• Ability to manage project deliverables and provide clear status reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Requirement for travel to European suppliers and other business/customer sites

Qualifications & Experience

• A good quality degree in electrical or electronic engineering or related discipline
• Experience of specifying or designing control systems for a range of applications in process factories and the capability to produce high quality written specifications and reports.
• Experience of work with a range of subcontractors in a multinational organisation and supervision of the provision of design information by subcontractors
• PLC hardware requirements including I/O capability, network communications and power supply requirements.
• Control cabinet construction requirements.
• Compliance with assessment standards such as UKCA, CE and UL
• Instrumentation design including measurement range, measurement techniques, accuracy and EMC compatibility.
• Knowledge of PLC programming requirements and standard
• SCADA design and configuration including standards for user interface and alarm management.
• Practical experience of equipment testing
• Good interpersonal skills and a high level of computer literacy
• An ability to speak French or German in addition to English would be an advantage.

For more information, please contact Scarlet Wilson.