Lead Engineer- Control Systems

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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