Lead Engineer (Automation)
Location: Fareham
Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical and petrochemical, nuclear, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and biopharma, power and energy, utilities, renewables and food and 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 Profile
Our Automation teams deliver projects in various industries including Nuclear, Oil and Gas, Food and Beverage, Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Energy/Renewables, Data Centres and Utilities.
Our teams across Chesterfield, Fareham and Warrington deliver solutions using a wide array of technology including Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider, AVEVA, Ignition and many more. These solutions include PLC, HMI, SCADA, MES, Batch, Functional Safety, OT Cyber Security and Industry 4.0.
As part of our continued growth in Automation, we are looking for a Lead Engineer to join our team in Fareham.
The Lead Engineer will:
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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.
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Bea committed and enthusiastic team member. Must be pro:active, and able to allocate tasks among team members and supervise, assist and monitor task progress and advise the project manager on progress, risks and issues.
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Work co:operatively with the Project Manager and engineering team to ensure smooth project progress in accordance with the agreed project lifecycle.
Key Activities
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Overall technical and engineering team leadership
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Work closely with and support the Project Manager in all aspects of project technical delivery and scope management
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Ensure project technical and quality requirements are met
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Ensure project adherence to company quality processes and procedures
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Detailed task and procurement list development and leadership
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Allocate tasks to the engineering team and monitor progress
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Identification of project opportunities and variations
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Support the Project Manager in identifying and managing risks and issues
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Support the Project Manager in the project delivery strategy development and planning
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Identification and enabling of reusable modules by standardisation and modularisation of systems where appropriate
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Prototyping of new technologies
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Training planning and support
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Mentoring of Engineers
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Support the Automation sales and proposals teams in business development
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Provide Health and Safety leadership by example
Functions
Lead Engineers are normally expected to undertake the following:
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Central involvement in sales to projects hand:over process
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Assist the Project Managerin the development of the projectQualityplan
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Assist the Project Managerin the development and ongoing updates of task and procurement lists
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Peer review documents created by the project team or other teams
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Act as the main contact/client interface for the project and deputise for the Project Managerwhere required
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Undertake or manage site surveys as required
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Lead outline design, upfront design studies and requirement definition for clients
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Develop FDS : with the project team as necessary
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Develop DDS : with the project team as necessary
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Develop Test Specification and design testing methodology with the team
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