Job Description
CONTROLS & AUTOMATION ENGINEER
Location: Fort William (Scotland)
Salary: £(phone number removed)/annum (negotiable) + 10 % bonus (based on annual salary) + excellent relocation package
Job type: Permanent
Role Objective
- Maintain site control systems to minimise breakdown times and ensure efficient recovery after system failures.
- Provide control systems expertise to lead complex control system process troubleshooting.
- Lead site control system maintenance projects and support site electrical engineering capital projects.
- Identify, implement and develop control system and equipment improvements to support smelter operations
- Supervise, mentor and coach technicians and engineers.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Manage their own work and activities, in line with site HSEQ standards.
- Development, planning and execution of projects across the smelter and hydro-scheme which operates on a continuous basis 24/7.
- Project manage multiple projects concurrently in addition to providing engineering support to the site.
- Maintaining and updating all drawings associated with site control systems and projects.
- Monitors progress and performance against agreed objectives.
- Manage stakeholder relationships with both internal clients, and external suppliers and contractors.
- Ensure project specific management of change is carried out and recorded accordingly, against change register.
- Ensure compliance of all relevant legislation in relation to site control equipment.
- Provide Technical and Engineering support to Engineering and Operations functions.
- Ensure that all employees directly under their charge are aware of their responsibilities regarding HSEQ matters and their obligations for safe working.
- Discuss working methods with the HSEQ Department and determine adequate safe systems of work.
- Ensure that any contract or site personnel working on site for control system works, do so in a manner that complies with site HSEQ standards.
- Ensure continuity of operations by assisting with breakdowns.
- Assist with the development of apprentices with regards to controls and automation skills.
Person Specification & Experience
- Electrical and instrumentation knowledge.
- PLC, HMI and SCADA experience.
- PLC programming skills.
- HND or above in an engineering discipline
If you think that you have appropriate skills and experience to perform well at above role, please do not hesitate to apply!
