Senior Controls Engineer

Rivan Industries; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Private health insurance

Unlimited time off

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Rivan Industries, a UK-based synthetic fuel company, seeks a control systems lead to own safety, performance, and scalability for deployed plants. You will standardise PLC/SCADA patterns, enable fleet-wide monitoring, and drive reliability across a growing fleet of modular plants.

The role focuses on safety functions per IEC 61508, SIL verification, and ensuring compliance with CE/UKCA requirements. HQ in Bermondsey with relocation support and private health insurance.

Qualifications

• Experience leading distributed control systems in hazardous or high-energy environments.
• Experience implementing safety functions under IEC 61508 or related standards.
• Systems compliant with LVD, Machinery Directive and CE/UKCA.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Functional safety

Hazard analysis compliance

SIL verification

IEC 61131-3

Modbus/OPC-UA integration

HMI design

Tools

Codesys

Job description

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. Here’s our entire business plan. 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 control 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

Preferred skills:

• 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 £6,000 per year extra to live close to our HQ
• Private health insurance
• Unlimited time off

We encourage exceptional applicants from all backgrounds to apply for this role, even if they do not meet all the requirements listed.