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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Relocation support

Private health insurance

Unlimited time off

Job summary

Rivan Industries in Bermondsey, London, seeks a controls engineer to own safety-critical distributed control systems and scale deployments across a growing fleet of synthetic fuel plants.

Lead the design, commissioning and lifecycle ownership of DCS in hazardous environments, implement IEC 61508 safety functions, and standardise PLC/SCADA patterns. Competitive salary £70k-£100k, share options, relocation support (£6,000), private health insurance, and unlimited time off.

Qualifications

• Lead design, commissioning, and lifecycle ownership of distributed control systems in hazardous environments.
• Experience implementing safety functions under IEC 61508, 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.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Distributed control systems

IEC 61508 safety

IEC 61131-3

Industrial communications

HMI design

Tools

Codesys

Modbus TCP/RTU

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 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.