Aveva Senior Engineer (Digital Transformation)

Schneider Electric; Coventry; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme

Employee Share Ownership

Health & Wellbeing Support

Gym Flex

Learning Portal

Discounts

Mobility Opportunities

Mentors & Projects

Job summary

Schneider Electric is seeking a Senior/Lead Engineer to drive technical delivery of AVEVA-based automation and digital solutions from UK sites in Coventry or Warrington. You will mentor teams, shape UX/UI-focused outcomes, and ensure projects meet schedule, cost, and quality targets across the full lifecycle.

You’ll bring hands-on AVEVA, SCADA, and networking expertise, with experience in cloud/hybrid deployments and cyber security.

Qualifications

• Qualified in engineering discipline (HNC/HND/Degree).
• Strong hands-on experience with AVEVA technologies and related digitisation knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Deliver digital projects across AVEVA tech stack on time, within budget, to quality targets.
• Lead design, configuration, testing, installation and commissioning activities.
• Review engineering outputs and prepare system documentation (specs, test scripts, manuals).
• Mentor junior engineers and support service teams to ensure timely issue resolution.
• Support bid teams with technical input and delivery estimates.

Skills

AVEVA technologies

SCADA

Telemetry

Industrial networks

Cloud deployments

Cyber security

Stakeholder management

UX/UI knowledge

OPC UA

MQTT

Education

HNC/HND/Degree

Tools

Geo SCADA

EcoStruxure Automation Expert

Job description

Mission

Join our UK Process Automation Delivery Engineering Team in Coventry or Warrington and take a leading role in delivering advanced automation, SCADA and digital solutions. You'll drive technical delivery across AVEVA technologies - including PI System, System Platform and OMI - helping customers modernise and digitise their operations. Working across the full project lifecycle, you'll support software modernisation, contribute to sales where needed, and shape UX/UI-focused digital solutions. As a Senior/Lead Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership, mentor others, and keep stakeholders aligned to ensure successful project outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Full compliance with Schneider Electric QA, HSE, cybersecurity, project delivery processes, and statutory regulations.
• Responsible for the technical delivery of digital projects, including design and specification of system requirements, configuration and programming, testing, installation and commissioning
• Ongoing support for Schneider Electric/AVEVA and third - party solutions; ensures modernisation and digitisation best practices while maintaining up - to - date application knowledge.
• Responsible for reviewing engineering outputs, managing structured testing with internal/external parties, and preparing/approving system documentation including specifications, test scripts, and support manuals.
• Ensures delivery of technical solutions to time, cost, and quality targets, identifies risks and opportunities with commercial implications, and maintains clear communication with Project and Customer Delivery Managers.
• Mentors junior engineers and supports service teams to ensure effective technical delivery and timely resolution of customer issues.
• Supports bid teams with technical input, delivery estimates and planning, and represents engineering in customer sales meetings where required.

Skills and attributes

• Strong hands-on experience with AVEVA technologies and a high-level understanding of core digitisation packages, including modernisation and related knowledge - capture activities leading to solution design and customer design reviews.
• Proven experience across SCADA, telemetry, computer networking, and software engineering, ideally including Geo SCADA and/or EcoStruxure Automation Expert.
• Experience working in project environments (lead or supporting role), covering full project lifecycle, meeting cost/quality/time targets, and working on customer sites in the UK and overseas.
• Familiarity with cloud and hybrid cloud/on - premise deployments, along with a desirable understanding of control - system - level Cyber Security.
• Experience working in at least two relevant sectors such as Water & Wastewater, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Cyber Security, Food & Beverage, CNI or Renewable Energy.
• Ability to explain best practices and system capabilities to customers, including leading UX/UI and digitisation knowledge - capture sessions and translating findings into solution designs.
• Experience with digital communications, industrial networks, and modern integration protocols (e.g., OPC UA, MQTT, REST APIs).
• Competent user of common operating systems and standard office software tools.
• Strong customer and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to identify and report project risks and commercial opportunities.

Education

• Qualified to a recognised Qualification in engineering discipline i.e., HNC/HND/Degree.

At Schneider Electric, Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of our organisation, it's an integral part of our history, culture, and identity. We recognise that embracing diversity unlocks innovation and creativity and fosters collaboration. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our communities and the customers we serve. As a result, our teams are stronger to drive the company's future.

"We are proudly participating in the Disability Confident Program offering support to people in the workplace who consider themselves living with a disability."

What we offer you

Competitive salary & Bonus Scheme, 28 Days Annual Leave + Public Holidays, Pension Scheme, Employee Share Ownership Programme, Various Health & Wellbeing Support Options, Gym Flex, Open Talent Market (internal mobility opportunities + access to mentors & projects globally), Shopping & Dining Discounts, Learning Portal and much more.

Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?

When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values - Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork - starts with us.

IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

€40 billion global revenue +9% organic growth employees in 100+ countries

This position will be posted until filled.

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