Senior Controls Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Significant share options

Private health insurance

Unlimited time off

Relocation support

Job summary

Rivan Industries in London is seeking a control systems lead to own the design, commissioning and lifecycle ownership of distributed control systems in hazardous environments. You will drive safety compliance (IEC 61508), improve performance, and architect scalable patterns for deployment across sites.

You will work at our Bermondsey HQ with relocation support and share options, and enjoy private health insurance and unlimited time off.

Qualifications

• Experience designing distributed control systems in hazardous or high-energy environments.
• Knowledge of IEC 61508 safety functions, SRS development, SIL verification.
• Experience with industrial protocols (Modbus, CANbus, OPC-UA) and HMI design.

Responsibilities

• Own functional safety for our systems and ensure compliance with risk controls.
• Manage performance and reliability of deployed control systems.
• Design scalable control architectures for pilot to thousands of deployments.
• Standardise PLC/SCADA/telemetry patterns across sites.
• Develop remote diagnostics and fleet-wide monitoring.

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. 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