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Systems Engineer

🏢 Bilfinger • 📍 Reading, England • 🕒 2 days ago

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Location Base

Reading, England

Tier-1 UK Economic Zone

Est. Take-Home Pay

68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)

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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard

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Position Overview & Specifications

Systems Engineer

Location: Reading

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 a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning. This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

Role

Responsible for the delivery of agreed modules within a project (PLC, SCADA, Testing, Networking, Documentation, Hardware design etc)
Work as directed by the Senior/Lead Engineer and Project Manager
Responsible for meeting the technical and quality requirements of projects
Ensure project adherence to company quality processes and procedures
Identify project opportunities and variations
Support the Project Manager in identifying and managing risks and issues
Identify and enable use of reusable modules by standardisation and modularization of systems where appropriate
Provide Health and Safety leadership by example

Functions
The Systems Engineer is normally expected to undertake the following:

Develop project modules. (Modules as identified in the design – PLC code modules, SCADA scripts, Mimics, comms drivers, etc.)
Report on progress of all assigned activities to Senior/Lead Engineer or Project Manager
Identify any deviations from agreed functionality or scope and notify Senior/Lead Engineer or Project Manager
Peer review documents created by the project team or other teams as required
Undertake site surveys as required
Support outline design, upfront design studies and requirement definition for clients
Develop FDS
Develop DDS
Develop test specification & design testing methodology
Development of site work documentation (Risk assessment, method statement, site test documentation)
Develop O & M documentation
Undertake full integrated system testing, CFAT, SAT and installation
Undertake observations, variation and reworks
Undertake packing and shipping of the system
Undertake site installation
Undertake site retesting
Provide warranty support as necessary

The following experience is essential:

Experience of the full project life cycle from system specification through design, development, testing and on-site commissioning is essential
Hands on experience of PLC and SCADA systems
A good appreciation of Control panels, electrical installation and Instrumentation solutions.

Experience of some or all of the following is desirable: