Overview / Responsibilities
Wood Applied Intelligence (AI) is currently recruiting a Lead Automation Engineer to support our UK projects.
Whilst this role can be based anywhere in the UK, mobility and travel to customer sites and face to face meetings with colleagues will be expected as required.
The Lead Automation Engineer will provide technical and functional responsibility for EC&I (Electrical, Control and Instrumentation) project execution to the Project Engineering Manager.
Responsibilities / Duties:
- Acts in Lead technical and supervisory roles in project definition, development, and execution
- Leads project sub - teams during system design and implementation
- Coordinates with project discipline and senior engineers to ensure correct implementation of the design for their engineering specialty and coordinates the work of engineers within their specialty
- Prepares and reviews engineering studies (FEED), design drawings and documents (DETAILED DESIGN), and material and equipment specifications
- Resolves specialty related engineering issues by applying accepted principles, codes, and standards
- Produces Monthly Technical Progress Reports
- Control and management of discipline hours
- Programme input and updates
- Customer focal point, ensuring client satisfaction / requirements are addressed or met
- Support the bid and estimating function especially for future phases of work
- Supports RFQs and Requisitions for vendors
- Supports project evaluation (Technical KPIs)
- Mentoring ability for team members
Skills / Qualifications
- Minimum BSc Degree or demonstratable equivalent good level experience
- Compelling experience in Automation and Control Engineering discipline
- Thorough knowledge of engineering practices and economic principles, calculation methods, design details, international codes and standards, procedures, and specifications
- Experience in industries e.g. Oil and Gas, Refining, Chemical, Pharmaceutical
- Competency to become a discipline G35 Approver (will be assessed on the project by independent checker)
- FEED Experience, survey definition and execution, followed by optioneering for detailed design
- Experience of brownfield sites including turnarounds, shutdowns, and commissioning
- Detailed experience in project estimating, planning and management / leadership aspects of project work
- Up to date knowledge PLC systems (Rockwell/Siemens)
- Experience of legacy PLC / DCS systems is advantageous
- Open Source SCADA type systems understanding
- Cyber understanding with respect to control system networks
- Network architectures experience
- Knowledge of modern automation and control applications, tools, methodologies
- An understanding of instrumentation installations
- Commercially aware
- Strong leadership ability, communication skills, enthusiasm and diplomacy
- Inquisitive, well organized and have a keen eye for detail
- Able to operate in an integrated team environment supporting and leading others with a desire and ability to build trust and respect throughout the team
Company Overview
Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people. www.woodplc.com
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.
