Lead Controls Engineer
Allen Bradley / Siemens
Southampton
£45000 to £55000
Immediate start Available

Role Profile:

As a Lead Engineer, you will be required to motivate and supervise the project engineering team, taking full responsibility for successful technical delivery of a complete project solution to the agreed scope in accordance with company procedures whilst meeting budgetary and time-scale targets.
You must be a committed and enthusiastic team member, who is pro-active and able to allocate tasks among team members, supervise, assist and monitor task progress to advise the project manager on progress, risks and issues. You should work co-operatively with the Engineering team to ensure smooth project progress in accordance with the agreed project lifecycle.

Key Activities:

• Overall technical and engineering team leadership
• Working closely with and supporting the Project Manager in all aspects of project technical delivery and scope management
• Lead the technical and quality requirements on projects
• Ensure project adherence to company quality processes and procedures
• Detailed task and procurement list development and leadership
• Allocate tasks to the engineering team and monitor progress

• Identification of project opportunities and variations

• Support the Project Manager in identifying and managing risks and issues
• Support the Project Manager in the project delivery strategy development and planning
• Identification and enabling of reusable modules by standardisation and modularization of systems where appropriate
• Prototyping of new technologies
• Working closing with customers and stakeholders through project delivery
• Training planning and support
• Mentoring of Engineers
• Sales support
• Support the Automation sales team and support department business development
• Provide Health and Safety leadership by example

Key Functions:

• Central involvement in sales to projects hand-over process
• Central involvement in 1st Engineering review
• Assist PM in development of QA plan
• Assist PM in development of project Gantt chart
• Assist PM in development of initial task & procurement list
• Ongoing development & updating of detailed task & procurement lists
• Ongoing development & updating of detailed task & procurement lists
• Peer review documents created by the project team or other teams
• Attend contract meetings with the project manager
• Act as the main contact/client interface for the project and deputise for the PM where required
• Undertake or manage site surveys as required
• Lead outline design, upfront design studies and requirement definition for clients
• Develop FDS - with the project team as necessary
• Develop DDS - with the project team as necessary
• Develop Test Specification & design testing methodology with the team
• Develop or manage development of project modules. (Modules as identified in the design - PLC code modules, SCADA scripts, Mimics, comms drivers, etc.)
• Undertake & record ongoing Engineering Reviews throughout the project
• Develop site work documentation with team input as necessary (Risk assessment, method statement, site test documentation)
• Develop O & M documentation - with input from project team as necessary
• Lead or manage full integrated system testing, CFAT, SAT and installation
• Undertake or manage observations, variation and reworks
• Undertake or manage packing and shipping of the system
• Undertake or manage site installation
• Undertake or manage site retesting
• Provide warranty support as necessary