Senior Control & Instrumentation Engineer

Job description

Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Control & Instrumentation Engineer to join our Critical Mission Solutions (CMS) business. This role will be based in Reading, but there will be a need for periodic visits to Stockton-on-Tees engineering office as and when the project requires. The specific framework that is being recruited for is the AWE Non-Nuclear Engineering Partner (NNEP) framework which provides £1bn worth of engineering support to site-wide facility redevelopment and upgrades.
The CMS business provides an exciting mixture of engineering, consultancy, and project management support opportunities, for delivery of challenging decommissioning, remediation and new build related EPC projects for major clients in the UK. The sectors you will have the opportunity to work in include civil nuclear, defence industries, and chemical industries with Clients including Dounreay, Sellafield, AWE, UKAEA and Kura. Overseas, we are delivering similarly interesting and exciting projects across the globe including projects for clients in Central & Eastern Europe and Japan.

Some of your duties:

• Development of Instrumentation Datasheets and selection of suitable devices for Pressure, Level, Temperature, Flow and Analytical measurement applications.
• Development of Valve datasheets for automatic control and isolation valve assemblies.
• Development of concept and detail designs for integrated measurement and control systems. This includes production of Equipment Schedules, Hook-up Drawings, Block Cable Diagrams, Wiring Schematics, Control Panel General Arrangements, Loop Diagrams and Equipment Layouts.
• Production of User Requirement Specifications for control systems.
• Production of Functional Control Descriptions defining control system functions, interfaces, and operator interaction requirements.

Here's What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronic, Instrumentation or Control Engineering
• Extensive experience in engineering design in the nuclear, chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, mechanical handling or water industries.
• Understanding of Safety Systems designed to BS EN 61508 / BS EN 61511
• Knowledge of the symbols and standard practices used in preparing P&IDs, specifically for notation of control functions on such drawings.

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women's - find out more about our employee networks here.

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