EC&I / Control Systems Engineer

Role: EC/I/ Control System EngineerLocation: LincolnshireSalary: Upto £60,000 plus excellent benefits

Are you a hands-on EC&I or Control Systems Engineer with strong experience in Siemens Step7, TIA Portal, WinCC, instrumentation and industrial control systems?

Do you want to work in renewable energy on a varied portfolio of operational plants, upgrades and new projects where your controls expertise will genuinely make an impact?

We are recruiting for an experienced EC&I / Control Systems Engineer to join a growing renewable energy business supporting a portfolio of biogas plants and future energy projects.

This is not a general electrical maintenance role.

We are looking for someone with genuine specialist experience in control systems engineering, instrumentation, PLC programming, SCADA, loop tuning, calibration, DCS / SIS and industrial automation.

The Package

• Salary up to £60,000 depending on experience
• Discretionary bonus
• Private healthcare
• Company pension
• Life assurance
• Company pool / hire car for business travel
• Professional development and technical training
• Exposure to existing plants, upgrades and new renewable energy projects
• Long-term opportunity within a growing energy business

The Role

You will provide specialist Electrical, Control & Instrumentation support across operational sites and engineering projects.

Working alongside Maintenance, Operations and Projects teams, you will take ownership of complex control, automation and instrumentation issues and support the continued development of plant reliability and performance.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Fault finding, calibration and maintenance of plant instrumentation
• Instrument loop checks, PID / loop tuning and optimisation
• Working with pressure, temperature, flow, level and gas-analysis instrumentation
• PLC programming, modification and fault diagnosis
• Working extensively with Siemens Step7 Classic
• Programming and fault finding using Siemens TIA Portal
• Supporting and developing WinCC SCADA
• Maintaining PLC and SCADA software, backups and documentation
• Supporting DCS and Safety Instrumented Systems
• SIS testing, proof testing and lifecycle documentation
• Commissioning instrumentation and control systems on new plants and upgrades
• Supporting control philosophies and Functional Design Specifications
• Diagnosing faults across industrial communication networks
• Working with virtualised / VM-based control-system environments
• Supporting OT infrastructure and industrial cyber security
• Supporting shutdowns, outages, modifications and plant improvement projects
• Participating in HAZOP, LOPA, DSEAR and functional-safety activities

What Were Looking For

We want to hear from experienced EC&I Engineers, Control Systems Engineers, C&I Engineers, Instrument Engineers or Automation Engineers from heavy industrial or process environments.

You will ideally have:

• Strong hands-on control and instrumentation engineering experience
• HNC, HND or equivalent in Electrical, Control, Instrumentation or Automation Engineering
• Electrical / EC&I / Automation apprenticeship or equivalent technical background
• Strong Siemens Step7 Classic experience
• Strong TIA Portal experience
• Experience with WinCC SCADA
• Practical PLC programming and modification experience
• Strong instrumentation and calibration capability
• Loop checking and loop tuning experience
• DCS and/or SIS experience
• Commissioning experience
• Ability to read P&IDs, electrical drawings and control schematics
• Experience working in heavy industrial or process environments

Highly Desirable

Any of the following would make you particularly attractive:

• CompEx
• ATEX
• DSEAR
• Hazardous-area experience
• Functional Safety / SIL
• HAZOP / LOPA
• Process safety
• Siemens PCS7
• Profibus / Profinet
• Modbus
• OPC
• Industrial Ethernet
• OT networking
• Industrial cyber security
• IEC 62443
• VMware / Hyper-V
• Beckhoff
• Wago
• Codesys
• PI / OSIsoft

Relevant Industry Backgrounds

We are particularly interested in engineers from:

• Power generation
• Energy from Waste
• Anaerobic digestion / biogas
• Chemical processing
• Petrochemical
• Oil & gas
• Gas processing
• Refining
• Utilities
• Water treatment
• Highly automated manufacturing
• Other heavy process industries

Why Apply?

This role offers significantly more technical depth than a standard maintenance position.

You will be working across instrumentation, PLCs, SCADA, DCS, SIS, OT networks, process safety and control-system development, while also supporting major plant upgrades and new renewable energy projects.

If you are currently working as an EC&I Engineer, C&I Engineer, Control Systems Engineer, Instrumentation Engineer, Automation Engineer, Controls Engineer or Senior EC&I Technician and want a role where your controls expertise will be properly utilised, we want to hear from you.

Apply Now

Strong EC&I and control systems engineers are in high demand, and we expect significant interest in this opportunity.

If you have hands-on experience with Siemens Step7, TIA Portal, WinCC and industrial instrumentation, do not wait for the perfect moment to apply.

Click Apply today and send us your CV.

Even if you do not match every desirable technology listed above, if your core background is in EC&I, control systems and instrumentation within a process environment, we would still like to hear from you.