Control & Instrumentation Engineer

Salary: £72,000 per year

We are looking for a Control & Instrumentation Engineer to work on a permanent basis in the Chester area.

Our client is ideally seeking candidates from a nuclear background but will consider C&I Engineers with highly regulated experience.

Salary is up to £72,000 per annum plus 25 days holiday and bank holidays, company bonus, pension the client

Duties for the Control and Instrument Engineer:

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
 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 the client 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 the client/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

If the Control & Instrumentation Engineer role could be of interest, please call Rebecca at GPW Recruitment or press