Lead Controls Engineer
Posted 2 hours ago by Matchtech Technology
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
- Type:
- Permanent
- Start Date:
- Immediate
- Contract Length:
- N/A
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- Job Reference:
- 561281_1730279676
- Job ID:
- 222566919
- Applications:
- Be first to apply
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