Senior Controls Engineer

Rivan; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Unlimited time off

Relocation support (£6,000/year)

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Job summary

Rivan Industries in the United Kingdom is expanding its controls systems team to deploy a fleet of synthetic fuel plant controls. You will own functional safety, manage performance and reliability of deployed systems, and design scalable architectures to move from pilot deployments to thousands of sites.

The role requires hands-on commissioning, fault-finding, and experience with industrial communications and PLC/SCADA patterns.

Qualifications

• 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, 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.

Responsibilities

• Own functional safety for our control systems and ensure 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

Functional safety leadership

Designing scalable control systems

SIL verification & IEC 61508

HAZOP/HAZID

Industrial communications

Troubleshooting complex systems

Python 3

Electrical CAD/ECAD tools

Tools

Python 3

SolidWorks Electrical / ECAD

IEC 61131-3 (ST/LD/FBD)

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 CO 2 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 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
• Extensive relocation support, including £6000 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.