Senior Controls Engineer

Rivan Industries; Greater London; Presencial; GBP 70.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Private health insurance

Share options

Relocation support £6,000/year to live

Unlimited time off

In-person HQ Bermondsey, South London

Descripción de la vacante

Rivan Industries in London seeks a seasoned control systems leader to own functional safety and scale distributed control systems across pilot deployments and future fleets.

You will standardise PLC/SCADA patterns, design scalable architectures, and develop fleet-wide monitoring with remote diagnostics. HQ Bermondsey, relocation support, private health insurance, and substantial share options are offered.

Formación

• Experience leading design, commissioning and lifecycle ownership of distributed control systems in hazardous/high-energy processes.
• Experience implementing safety functions under IEC 61508 and related standards.
• Systems compliant with LVD, Machinery Directive, CE/UKCA.
• Proficient with IEC 61131-3 (ST/LD/FBD/Codesys) and HMI development.
• Able to integrate and troubleshoot Modbus TCP/RTU, CANbus and OPC-UA across multi-site systems.

Responsabilidades

• Own functional safety and risk controls (HAZOP/HAZID, Cause & Effect, Fault Tree).
• Manage performance and reliability of deployed control systems.
• Design scalable control architectures from pilot to thousands of deployments.
• Standardise PLC, SCADA and telemetry patterns across sites.
• Develop remote diagnostics and fleet-wide monitoring capabilities.

Conocimientos

Distributed control systems

IEC 61508 safety functions

SRS development

SIL verification

Change management

LVD/Machinery CE/UKCA

IEC 61131-3

HMI design

Industrial communications (Modbus CAN/

Fault finding

Factory automation

Python 3

Solidworks Electrical

Herramientas

Codesys

Solidworks Electrical

ECAD tools

OPC-UA tooling

Descripción del empleo

Rivan Industries (Rivan.com) is a synthetic fuel company designed to decarbonise heavy industry. We aim to make synthetic fuel cheaper than fossil fuels and sustain life on earth by keeping the CO2 locked underground.

We design and manufacture modular synthetic fuel plants consisting of a DAC system, an Alkaline Electrolyser, and a Sabatier Reactor, whilst vertically integrating with off-grid DC solar and the European gas-grid. We've recently deployed the UK's largest synthetic fuel plant and are planning to 1000x this scale in the next 2 years.

We need robust, scalable control systems that can be deployed across a growing fleet of synthetic fuel plants. We are looking for someone who can manage our existing pilot deployments and operations, and grow our controls systems to deploy 1000s of synthetic fuel plants ASAP.

The role:

• Own functional safety for our systems - ensuring compliance with existing risk controls (HAZOP/HAZID, Cause & Effect, Fault Tree)
• Manage the performance and reliability of deployed control systems
• Design control architectures that can scale from pilot to thousands of deployments
• Standardise PLC, SCADA, and telemetry patterns across sites
• Develop remote diagnostics and fleet-wide monitoring capability

Core skills:

• Lead the design, commissioning, and lifecycle ownership of distributed control systems in hazardous or high-energy process environments
• Experience implementing safety functions under IEC 61508 (or related standards), including SRS development, SIL verification, and change management
• Delivered systems compliant with LVD, Machinery Directive, and CE/UKCA
• IEC 61131-3 (ST/LD/FBD, Codesys), HMI design and development
• Integration and troubleshooting of industrial communications (Modbus TCP/RTU, CANbus, OPC-UA) in multi-device, multi-site systems
• Hands-on commissioning and fault-finding experience on complex industrial systems
• Factory automation experience
• Python 3
• Solidworks Electrical / ECAD tools

Specifics:

• £70 - 100k Salary depending on experience
• Significant share options as part of the early team
• In-person work at our HQ in Bermondsey, South London - flexibility considered based on personal circumstances
• Extensive relocation support, including £6000 per year extra to live close to our HQ
• Private health insurance
• Unlimited time off