Senior System Engineer (LabVIEW)

Role: Senior System Engineer (LabVIEW)

Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom

Salary: approx £55,000

Travel:

• Legal right to live and work in the UK. Valid passport for global travel.
• Must hold a full clean valid UK driving licence and own vehicle to use for work travel.
• Flexibility to travel throughout the UK, including at short notice, 50% of the time
• potentially trips outside the UK (with an advanced warning).

Experis is proud to have partnered with a leading system integrator in the north of England. A small but punchy team that often is found at the forefront of creating complete systems for their clients who are active in several different industries. They seek a dynamically minded person who has the want and desire to work on multiple projects both software and hardware and has a customer-focused mindset.

Our clients can often be found working in several industries such as EV, Aerospace & Defence alongside more emerging markets of Radio Frequency. They consider themselves to be a test and measurement business and as stated already create bespoke solutions for their clients. These are dotted all around the UK so frequent travel is an absolute requirement for this role which could be up to 4 nights a week, although a super rare case!

Your Role:

You will help customers across a wide range of applications and industries with a diversity of issues, from delivering small data acquisition systems or debugging existing client systems to the development and the onsite commissioning of complex control and data acquisition systems. The duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to;

• Full lifecycle project delivery as part of a team (size of project dependent on experience)
• Providing timely, accurate and effective solutions to technical problems.
• On-site installation and commissioning of both HW and SW systems
• Programming memory and speed-efficient data acquisition and control applications.
• Developing intuitive graphical user interfaces.
• Selecting the correct measurement hardware for a given application based on a customer's specification.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, product hardware and software engineers, throughout each system's development and production life-cycle.
• Troubleshooting problems in systems that include both software and hardware.
• Delivering technical presentations and demonstrations to customers, colleagues and partners.
• Architecture design and project management through the full project lifecycle and managing internal project teams. The complexity and size of projects will increase based on an individual's skills and capabilities.
• Working with the business development team to develop technical solutions and provide project costings based upon discussions with the client, including requirements qualification and response to RFQ's.
• Creating technical documentation in line with our quality assurance system, including specifications, test plans and user manuals.

Core Competencies:

• A results-focused, action-oriented mentality is essential with the ability to deal effectively with customers to deliver successful project outcomes.
• Must be able to multitask, manage time and prioritise effectively.
• Problem-solving skills to analyse the problem following a logical and methodical approach, whilst also thinking creatively to provide a solution.
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills.
• Enjoy working as a team player as well as working autonomously.

Technical Skills:

• A degree in engineering, such as electrical/electronic engineering, mechatronics, mechanical, computer science or equivalent.
• Knowledge of instrumentation, control and industrial automation.
• Demonstrable experience in measurement & instrumentation design.
• Proven experience in requirements capture and writing technical proposals.
• Ability to debug and solve problems a range of systems in an efficient manner.
• Experience with mainstream PLC brands (Siemens, Allen Bradley, etc)
• Desire and ability to learn new skills/programming languages/applications.
• PLC or NI instrumentation and control panel experience.
• Legal right to live and work in the UK. Valid passport for global travel.
• Must hold a full clean valid UK driving licence and own vehicle to use for work travel.

Desirable skills:

• Understanding and practical experience of object-oriented principles.
• Knowledge and experience of NI hardware platforms e.g DAQmx, cRIO, PXI and embedded systems, including LabVIEW FPGA and LabVIEW Real-Time.
• NI platform certifications e.g. CLD, CLA, CTD, CTA, CLED.
• Experience in a text-based language, Python, JAVA, C and C++ is preferred but not essential.
• Ability to draw system level diagrams in a CAD package - preferably EPlan.

How to apply?

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