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 support

HQ Bermondsey-based role, in-person

Job summary

Rivan Industries, a London-based synthetic fuel company, seeks a Lead Controls Engineer to scale and safeguard our pilot deployments as we roll out thousands of plants.

You will own functional safety, optimise distributed control systems, standardise PLC/SCADA patterns across sites, and develop remote diagnostics and fleet-wide monitoring capable of handling a global rollout. Significant relocation support and equity participate in the early team.

Qualifications

• Lead design, commissioning, and lifecycle ownership of distributed control systems in hazardous environments.
• Experience implementing safety functions under IEC 61508, including SRS development and SIL verification.
• Delivered systems compliant with CE/UKCA directives.
• Proficient in IEC 61131-3 programming (ST/LD/FBD) and HMI design.
• Integration and troubleshooting of industrial communications (Modbus TCP/RTU, CANbus, OPC-UA) across multi-site systems.
• Hands-on commissioning and fault-finding on complex industrial systems.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

DCS design

IEC 61508 safety

CE/UKCA compliance

HMI design

IEC 61131-3

Industrial comms (Modbus/OPC-UA)

Fault finding

Factory automation

Python 3

ECAD / Solidworks

Tools

SolidWorks Electrical

ECAD tools

Codesys

Modbus/OPC-UA

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 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