Lead EC&I Engineer

Lead EC&I Engineer 

Location: Warrington 

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & 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.

Job description

• Together with your team of engineers and designers you are responsible for the Electrical Control and Instrumentation (EC&I) design within multi-discipline engineering, EPCM or EPC projects
• These projects will range from Concept Design to Execution Design
• The projects will be for different sectors (Oil & Gas, Nuclear, Energy, Utilities, Chemicals, Food), small and large projects, and greenfield and brownfield.
• You are responsible to manage and complete the EC&I design within budget and planning. This includes change control and consistency of the EC&I design with the other disciplines
• You are responsible for the quality of the EC&I design
• You will participate in internal and external design reviews and you are responsible for the design acceptance by the client
• Depending on size and complexity you may be Lead Engineer EC&I for one project, or for a portfolio of projects
• Make independent decisions on issues, providing expert technical support within EC&I Engineering
• You are responsible for leading and driving quality in all Engineering designs and projects including, the checking and approval of discipline design deliverables to company procedures
• You shall be able to effectively carry out, check and approve Engineering and Design estimates, control and report all costs on allocated projects in terms of progress, scope change and man hours

Your profile

If you have the following profile, then we are looking forward to meeting you

• More than 5 years of experience as Lead / Senior Engineer EC&I, in multi-discipline projects, in an Engineering / EPCM / EPC company, in one of the above mentioned sectors
• Deep knowledge of EC&I engineering and design, but you also have a sound knowledge of the other disciplines (Automation, Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Piping and Process)
• MEng / BEng / HNC / HND in EC&I Engineering
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer (Preferred)
• BS7671 18th Edition required
• Application of functional safety 61508 and 61511 (Preferred)
• COMPEX Ex12a and 12b (Preferred)
• Because of the variety of projects that we execute, we are looking for both experienced and less experienced candidates.
• Result oriented. You are only satisfied after your design is accepted by the client, you delivered top quality and the client is very satisfied with the performance of you and your team
• You plan and organise your activities before you allow your team to start spending hours. You understand the dependencies of the engineering activities within the EC&I discipline, but also the dependencies between EC&I and the other disciplines. You have a ‘one time right’ mentality
• Experienced with the main EC&I design packages including AMTECH, AutoCAD, AutoCAD electrical, Revit, Dialux and all Microsoft office packages
• Sound understanding of the current British and European Standards
• You delegate to your team, but at the same time you know exactly what is going on in your EC&I discipline, and intervene if required
• You implement a solid change control procedure for your team, and you can convince the client of the budget and planning consequences of changes
• You can lead and motivate your team so that they achieve the targets, also in case of setbacks
• Are you already an experienced Lead engineer? Then you have pleasure in teaching and coaching the young generation EC&I engineers and designers

If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact 01224 246246.

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