Senior Manager, Process C&I & DPCS — Systems Leader

Rolls-Royce SMR; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 71,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus – Performance‑related up to 17%

Benefits Allowance – £5,000 p.a.

Pension – 12% employer & 6% employee

Holidays – 28 days (+ public holidays

Private Medical Insurance – BUPA

Life Assurance – 6× pensionable pay

Home Office Support – £250 one-off

Job summary

Rolls-Royce SMR seeks a Senior Manager to lead the specification, design, integration and delivery of plant-wide process control, instrumentation, and data processing systems for its SMR program. You will report to the Head of C&I Systems Design & Integration and drive engineering leadership across C&I modalities, alarm management, historians and data platforms.

The role requires extensive sector experience, governance of complex contracts, and alignment with nuclear regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in process control engineering, instrumentation systems and plant automation.
• Significant experience with Distributed Control Systems (DCS), operational information systems and industrial data processing environments.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering and systems integration principles.
• Experience defining control philosophies, operational strategies and process automation architectures.
• Knowledge of alarm management, plant diagnostics and operational support systems.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering organisations and managing strategic supplier relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of plant-wide process control and instrumentation architectures.
• Define control philosophies and operational requirements.
• Align plant operation objectives with control system functionality.
• Lead technical reviews and approve key engineering decisions.
• Ensure control systems support safe and reliable plant operations.
• Lead testing, integration, verification and commissioning readiness activities.

Skills

Process control engineering

DCS/industrial data processing

Systems engineering & integration

Control philosophies & architectures

Alarm management & diagnostics

Stakeholder & supplier management

Education

Engineering degree (Control/Electrical/Instrumentation)

Chartered Engineer (CEng)

Tools

DCS platforms

Job description

Rolls-Royce SMR seeks a Senior Manager to lead the specification, design, integration and delivery of plant-wide process control, instrumentation, and data processing systems for its SMR program. You will report to the Head of C&I Systems Design & Integration and drive engineering leadership across C&I modalities, alarm management, historians and data platforms.

The role requires extensive sector experience, governance of complex contracts, and alignment with nuclear regulatory requirements.