Lead Engineer- Control Systems.

Head Energy AS; Bergen; On-site; NOK 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent or project roles

Career guidance

Mentoring and development

Pension and insurance

Training opportunities

Job summary

Head Energy Consulting AS seeks a Lead Engineer- Control Systems to govern the global control-system discipline, define architectures, and drive lifecycle management across projects and regions. You will lead technical reviews, ensure compliance with standards, and mentor engineers to raise reliability and cybersecurity of critical assets.

Based in Norway, the role requires a strong background in PLC/SCADA, HMI, and industrial networks, with English and Norwegian language proficiency, and a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's in a related engineering field with extensive automation experience.
• 10+ years in industrial automation and control systems.
• Experience in governance, lifecycle practices, and standards development.

Responsibilities

• Own the global control-system discipline standards and provide technical approval within governance processes.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures for PLC/SCADA, HMI, instrumentation, networks and integrated control systems.
• Define redundancy, failover and recovery principles for critical control-system functions.
• Lead technical reviews, RCA of recurring failures, and ensure lessons learned are incorporated into standards.
• Drive technology roadmaps, and standardization priorities across regions and projects.
• Mentor engineers and coordinate internal and external engineering activities.

Skills

English proficiency

Leadership

Governance

Systems integration

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in systems/electrical/automation

Tools

Industrial networks

Job description

Head Energy Consulting AS

Head Energy is an independent Scandinavian engineering & consulting house providing a wide range of products to onshore and offshore industries. We work with reputed clients in Energy, Civil Construction & Infrastructure, and Industry.

Head Energy has more than 900 employees, and offices in Bergen, Stavanger, Oslo, Trondheim, Gothenburg, Stenungsund, Esbjerg, Odense, and Hamburg. We are employee owned, client focused and growth oriented.

We live by our core values: Responsible | Honest | Inclusive | Innovative.

Our vision is to bring our employees and clients one step ahead.

On behalf of one of our clients, we are looking for Lead Engineer- Control Systems

Pnr: 23775

Job Description

• Technical authority and governance
• Own the global control-system discipline standards and provide technical approval within established governance and delegation-of-authority processes.
• Govern requirements for system architecture, hardware, software, interfaces, documentation and lifecycle management.
• Review designs and modifications for compliance with company requirements, applicable regulations and relevant industry standards.
• Provide technical direction during Management of Change, risk assessment and engineering-assurance activities.
• System architecture and standardization
• Develop and maintain reference architectures and design principles for programmable logic controllers, supervisory control and data acquisition systems, human-machine interfaces, instrumentation, networks and integrated control systems.
• Standardize operator interaction, alarm management, diagnostics, event logging, fault handling and system-status presentation.
• Define redundancy, failover, degraded-mode and recovery principles for critical control-system functions.
• Drive consistent engineering practices across products, projects and regional operations.
• Reliability, safety and cybersecurity
• Govern lifecycle and reliability strategies for critical control-system assets, including obsolescence, backups, recovery, configuration and version control.
• Be part of or lead technical reviews /RCA of recurring failures, trips, alarms, communication issues and system deviations, and ensure lessons learned are incorporated into standards and maintenance strategies.
• Define requirements for interlocks, safe-state behavior, barrier functions and operational-risk reduction.
• Establish operational-technology cybersecurity requirements for access, remote connectivity, patching, backups and secure system architecture.
• Verification and lifecycle management
• Establish qualification and verification strategies, including acceptance criteria and requirements for documented evidence.
• Define requirements for periodic system health assessments, obsolescence management, technology refresh planning, and long-term asset integrity.
• Leadership and continuous improvement
• Lead the global control-systems discipline within Integrity & Reliability and mentor engineers and specialists across the organization.
• Coordinate internal and outsourced engineering activities and act as a technical interface between disciplines, operations, suppliers and customers.
• Contribute to design reviews, root-cause analyses, failure mode, effects and criticality analyses, technology assessments and qualification activities.
• Shape technology roadmaps, improvement initiatives and long-term standardization priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in systems engineering, electrical engineering, automation, cybernetics or a related discipline. Extensive relevant expertise may compensate for a lack of formal education.
• Typically ten or more years of relevant experience in industrial automation, programmable logic controller and supervisory control systems, or integrated control systems.
• Demonstrated experience developing or governing control-system architectures, standards and lifecycle practices.
• Strong competence in system integration, industrial networks, diagnostics, alarm management, reliability and fault tolerance.
• Strong technical documentation, governance and design-review capabilities.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• Preferred experience
• Experience from offshore, marine, drilling, energy or another safety-critical industry.
• Knowledge of functional safety, barrier management, operational-technology cybersecurity and operational-risk reduction.
• Experience with system qualification, commissioning, lifecycle governance or technical assurance.

Personal Traits

• Communicates complex technical matters clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Builds alignment and provides credible technical direction across disciplines, regions and organizational boundaries.
• Balances strategic governance with practical engineering judgement.
• Works independently, takes ownership and manages competing priorities effectively.
• Shares knowledge, develops others and promotes continuous improvement and safe working practices.

Applications will be evaluated continuously

Language

• English
• Norwegian

In Head Energy You Get

• Permanent- or project employment with the best conditions.
• Access to the industry´s most exciting job opportunities
• Personal follow-up, mentoring and career guidance
• A large variety of project opportunities
• Good pension- and insurance schemes
• A pleasant and positive work environment
• Access to both specific and general courses.

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