Senior Design Engineer – SCADA
1 day ago
Ashby-De-La-Zouch
Senior Design Engineer – SCADA 📍 Ashby-de-la-Zouch (Office Based) 💰 Negotiable on Expereince + 10% Bonus 🕒 36.25 hours per week | Flexible Core Hours 🧑 💻 5 roles available (potentially up to 7) We are recruiting for multiple Senior Design Engineers to join a leading Rail Infrastructure engineering team within a Communication & Information Systems (CIS) environment. This is an opportunity to work on nationally significant infrastructure projects including HS2, major tunnel ventilation schemes, and high-profile transport bids such as tram networks. This role is ideal for a technically strong, systems-minded engineer with proven SCADA and control systems expertise who is comfortable leading technical delivery across the full engineering lifecycle. The Role You will own and deliver complex, multi-discipline SCADA and control system solutions across major rail infrastructure projects. From early-stage bid support through detailed design, integration, testing and deployment, you will: • Deliver specification development, system architecture design and deployment of SCADA & control systems, • Lead integration strategies across complex, multi-system environments, • Drive requirements capture, decomposition, traceability, verification and validation (V-lifecycle), • Develop scalable, robust and compliant system designs, • Provide technical leadership and assurance across engineering activities, • Apply best practice engineering governance, standards and configuration control, • Support building systems testing and integration phases Projects include: • Centralised & Line-wide SCADA systems, • Power SCADA, • Station & Utilities supervisory systems, • Tunnel Ventilation Control systems, • Route-wide engineering management systems, • Tunnel ventilation experience is highly desirable. About You: Essential: • Degree qualified in Electrical, Electronic, Control, Systems Engineering or similar, • Strong control systems background with SCADA as a must-have, • Experience delivering complex control and monitoring systems, • Practical experience with:, • Siemens S7 PLCs, • TIA Portal, • RTU-based systems (e.g. A8000), • Integration of PLC/RTU systems with field devices and networks, • Experience with modern SCADA platforms (ideally WinCC OA), • Strong systems engineering capability (requirements, architecture, interfaces, V&V), • Comfortable setting technical direction and guiding engineers, • Team-oriented mindset with strong stakeholder engagement skills Desirable: • Tunnel ventilation control system design experience, • Experience delivering safety-critical or mission-critical systems, • Chartered Engineer status (or working towards it) Benefits: • Pension scheme with enhanced contributions, • Private healthcare options, • Mental health support, • Subsidised gym membership, • Life assurance, • Cycle to Work scheme, • Learning & development support, • Generous family leave policies, • Additional leave for length of service, volunteering and sabbaticals