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Position: Control System Project Engineer
Location: Scottish Water Framework
Salary Guide: £Negotiable DOE, Plus Car/Allowance and Excellent Benefits Package
Our client is a Tier 1 D&B Contractor operating predominately in the water industry, who are delivering a significant proportion of Scottish Water's SR21 programme of clean and wastewater non-infrastructure projects throughout Scotland.
They are recruiting for a Control Systems Project Engineer support delivery of Control System Migration projects on behalf of the Scottish, responsible for successful co-ordination and verification of design and implementation as per project requirements
This position will require a combination of field and office based work, and the successful candidate will be a solutions-driven individual, with excellent technical and problem-solving abilities, strong leadership, motivational and communication skills, with key interfaces the management of specialist subcontractors, client operators and asset management teams
Key responsibilities:
- To ensure the project scope is adequately defined and optimal strategy selected for migration to minimise risk to customer process.
- Support projects that are concerned with replacement of obsolete C&I systems / equipment or development of new systems, in particular control / PLC systems.
- Undertake a technical review of proposals and be able to present bid comparison technical notes to senior managers/clients.
- To ensure Systems Integration contractor is focused on deliverables in order to support project milestones on time and on budget and to the correct technical standard.
- To ensure technical risks on projects are identified clearly and communicated to the project manager and other stakeholders.
- To review technical blockers and liaise with all stakeholders on projects to consolidate technical solutions from technical expertise to remove blockers
- To review project migration and commissioning plans and ensure the delivery schedule contains the necessary activities and sequence of execution to optimise delivery of project.
- To review the proposed technical solutions and ensure compliance with the customer specification.
- To maintain record for all technical issues and implemented solutions during the project software delivery cycle to support Lessons Learned.
- Understanding of process safety, fault analysis and reliability assessments using recognised techniques such as FMEA, FTA, LOPA, HAZID and HAZOP.
- To contribute to project reviews with technical inputs and strategies
- Support a standard product methodology mindset, seek opportunities to re-use solutions, improve quality and reliability whilst reducing the delivery timeline and associated cost.
- Take a leading role in development of Commissioning plans and HAZCOMM meetings.
- To identify issues early and escalate to the project manager to agree mitigation measures
Skills, Qualifications & Experience:
- Engineering degree or equivalent technical knowledge/experience in control system migration projects within the process/water/utilities industries.
- Proven experience of planning and driving engineering teams to meet challenging time-scales, budgets, and quality standards.
- Take a pro-active approach to ensuring Health & Safety is paramount, including conducting Risk Assessments and Method Statements where necessary
- Strong customer interface experience
- Strong sense of urgency and ability to identify and manage technical risks
- Proven skills in supervision of technical team with strong technical background
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, experienced in creating and presenting technical reports and responding to clients' technical questions
- Ability to understand and communicate customer requirements, lead technical discussions with customers and delivery teams.
- Proven track record of managing Control Systems engineering technical interfaces, software and hardware principles and requirements management.
- Able to work to deadlines under pressure whilst maintaining the safety, quality and engineering integrity of the solution
- Health and Safety & First Aid qualifications desirable.
