Job Title: Electrical, Control & Instrumentation Engineer
Department: Systems Engineering Team, Engineering and Infrastructure
Within the SET the purpose of role of the E,C&I Engineer is as follows:
- To introduce new E,C&I systems and technologies into the design of the facility and ensure their reliable and robust operation and maintainability in service.
- In response to requirements to develop the facilities' capabilities, or to operational issues, to develop design solutions and implement these through formally controlled processes for the full life cycle. This will include capture of requirements, design definition, completion of design reviews, justification of design choices, recording of design details, acting as "owners' engineer" for procurement and installation phases, and active participation in commissioning and test, and technical acceptance of the solution.
- To ensure that all necessary technical documentation required to support the delivery, commissioning, acceptance, training and operation of the technical solution is produced and approved.
Whilst this role is largely aimed at the E,C&I aspects of the site's facilities and infrastructure, there may be a requirement to utilise existing skills in adjacent areas, such as mechanical engineering.
The E,C&I Engineer works across a wide variety of projects including those addressing plant and equipment repair and refurbishment, component selection, process improvement, and new equipment, across a broad range of industrial plant, machinery and wind tunnel test equipment, including:
- Instrumentation, data acquisition, and signal conditioning.
- Control panel, safety circuits and monitoring systems.
- Low and high voltage systems.
Needs to Do:
- Understand the design intent of existing plant and machinery, their operating regimes and maintenance requirements.
- Design and implement new E,C&I engineering elements of plant, machinery and wind tunnel test equipment, ensuring documentation and engineering justifications are maintained appropriately in accordance with company processes.
- Understand and characterise existing plant, machinery and wind tunnel test equipment such that its integration with new equipment can be ensured.
- Review telemetry and data gathered from operational equipment to understand performance.
- Take engineering ownership of entire projects such as the refurbishment of significant plant assets.
- Maintain and upgrade the E,C&I and process engineering elements of legacy plant and equipment, taking a pragmatic approach to introducing new and effective fixes to old technical or safety problems.
- Perform analysis of the E,C&I aspects of systems such as stress, structural, fluid flow and thermodynamics.
- Maintain a high level of safety consciousness within all activities and be prepared to become involved with safety initiatives around site as required.
- Observe all safety requirements around high-energy systems such as high pressure air/hydraulics, high voltages and lasers .
- Record knowledge gained in company systems.
- Self-manage, plan own work and ensure key milestones are met.
- Work together with other team members of varied disciplines.
- Undertake any other reasonable task as directed by the line management.
Needs to Know:
- Degree (Bachelors or Masters) qualified in Electrical Engineering or closely related subject.
- 5 - 10 years' industrial experience post degree in a similar role.
- Highly numerate and confident with analytical methods.
- Understanding of industrial machinery.
- Understanding of the application of formal design control and change procedures.
- Appreciation of the importance of continuous improvement.
- Ability to interpret and apply industry standards and legislative requirements.
- Experience of designing analogue and digital circuits.
- Practical application of signal processing and filtering methods and a working knowledge of digital signal processing.
- Experience or a working knowledge of electrical circuit design software, such as SPICE, or implementation languages such as LabVIEW, PLC programming, Matlab etc. (other tools may be more appropriate)
Needs to Be:
- Happy to take the lead in determining the best solutions to problems and then driving those solutions to completion.
- Imaginative and creative with good problem solving skills.
- Comfortable working in and around large machinery.
- Persistent and determined to succeed.
- Readily adaptable to rapidly changing circumstances.
- Have a positive attitude and a willingness to accept tasks outside this job description.
- Have strong interpersonal skills and a mature sensibility.
- Confident and self-motivated, keen to learn new skills.
- Well organised.
- Happy to get involved with physical work and able and willing to work in parts of the site with difficult or limited access.
Key Relationships:
- Head of Engineering
- Other members of the Systems Engineering Team including Engineering Managers and Technical Author
- Engineering Services
- Infrastructure Project Manager
- Facility Operators/Users/Test Engineers
- Subcontractors and external consultants
Measures of Performance:
- Demonstrable understanding of ARA's E,C&I infrastructure, plant and equipment.
- Availability of systems to deliver ARA's facility test programmes.
- Measurement of task/project completion.
- Demonstrable improvements in system performance and characteristics.
- Improved ease of use and introduction of system monitoring and/or automation when appropriate.
- Improvement or implementation of new processes.
- Quality and breadth of relationships built with colleagues, contractors and other stakeholders
- Adherence, and suggestions for improvement, to Engineering and company SHEQ processes and procedures