OT Network Engineer

BGEN Ltd; Stafford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Pension Scheme

Death in Service Benefit

Additional holidays (up to 5 days)

My Rewards discounts

Employee assistance programme

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Private health care

Job summary

BGEN Ltd in Stafford is seeking an OT networks engineer to survey and renew industrial networks across critical infrastructure sectors. You will assess assets, design resilient architectures and work with PLC/HMI configurations to minimise disruption.

The role offers growth within a large multidisciplinary contractor, delivering value-added engineering solutions for Water, Power, Pharmaceutical, Nuclear and Food sectors with a strong safety and customer-centric delivery focus.

Qualifications

• Practical experience in industrial automation and OT networks.
• Hands-on surveying of industrial networks and configuring managed switches.
• Understanding resilient network design and fault finding.
• Experience in planning, testing and commissioning changes on live sites.

Responsibilities

• Survey OT networks and document topology and asset conditions.
• Design network architectures and configure industrial switches.
• Assess upgrade options and plan migrations to minimise disruption.
• Work with PLC/HMI configurations and layer 3 networking.

Skills

Industrial automation

System integration

OT networks

Surveying networks

PLC/HMI configuration

Tools

Hirschmann switches

HiVision

HiDiscovery

Rockwell PLC

Siemens PLC

Fortinet

Job description

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where you’ll be working?

BGEN is one of the UK's largest multidisciplinary design and build contractors with over 100 years of industry experience. We support clients in the Water, Power & Energy, Pharmaceutical, Nuclear and Food and Beverage industries to deliver next generation, value-added engineering solutions.

What you'll be doing?

• Survey existing OT networks, control panels and connected equipment (PLC, HMI, Remote I/O, Protocol converters) including their communication modules, firmware versions and compatibility and end of life status.
• Document network topology, switch configurations, fibre and copper connections, protocols and asset conditions and produce clear survey reports, functional specifications, configuration records and migration plans.
• Assess upgrade options for aging assets. Recommend partial or full replacement, or firmware upgrade and understand operational impact and risks.
• Design network architectures and configure industrial managed switches, particularly Hirschmann switches for resilient networks, including fibre rings, VLANs, port configuration, RSPAN, multicast handling and network monitoring.
• Bench test configurations and plan staged migration to minimise disruption to operational processes.
• Work with specialists on PLC, HMI configurations and layer 3 networking and firewalls.

What You’ll Bring

• Practical experience in industrial automation, system integration and OT networks.
• Hands on experience surveying industrial networks and configuring managed switches.
• Understanding resilient network design, VLANs, configuration of network devices and network fault finding.
• Experience in planning, testing and commissioning changes on live operational sites.

Beneficial Skills And Experience

• Hirschmann switches and tools (HiVision and HiDiscovery)
• Ring and redundancy protocols (MRP, RSTP, IGMP snooping, QoS, SNMP, RSPAN)
• Water industry experince
• Rockwell, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Schneider PLC and HMI platforms
• Layer 3 routing, network segmentation, Fortinet products and Cyber Security

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Company Pension Scheme
• Death in Service Benefit
• Opportunity to purchase additional holidays per year (up to 5 days for full time employees)
• My Rewards - offering discounts on high street and online shopping
• Employee assistance programme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

In addition, this role offers;

• Private health care for you
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!

About Us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

We’re responsable and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet

We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations

We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts

We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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