System Engineer or Senior System Engineer

Position : System or Senior System Engineer

Location : Sheffield

Salary: Negotiable (Open to candidates at all levels)

Main duties:

• Full life cycle project delivery as part of a team
• Providing timely, accurate and effective solutions to technical problems.
• On-site installation and commissioning of both HW and SW systems
• Programming memory and speed-efficient data acquisition and control applications.
• Developing intuitive graphical user interfaces.
• Selecting the correct measurement hardware for a given application based on a customer's specification.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, product hardware and software engineers, throughout each system's development and production life cycle.
• Troubleshooting problems in systems that include both software and hardware.
• Delivering technical presentations and demonstrations to customers, colleagues and partners.
• Architecture design and project management through the full project lifecycle and managing internal project teams. The complexity and size of projects will increase based on an individual's skills and capabilities.
• Working with the business development team to develop technical solutions and provide project costings based upon discussions with the client, including requirements qualification and response to RFQ's.
• Creating technical documentation in line with our quality assurance system, including specifications, test plans and user manuals.

About you:

• A degree in engineering, such as electrical/electronic engineering, mechatronics, mechanical, computer science or equivalent.
• Knowledge of instrumentation, control and industrial automation.
• Demonstrable experience in measurement & instrumentation design.
• Proven experience in requirements capture and writing technical proposals.
• Ability to debug and solve problems a range of systems in an efficient manner.
• Experience with mainstream PLC brands (Siemens, Allen Bradley, etc) is preferred but not essential.
• Desire and ability to learn new skills/programming languages/applications.
• PLC or NI instrumentation and control panel experience.
• Core Competencies:
• A results-focused, action-oriented mentality is essential with the ability to deal effectively with customers to deliver successful project outcomes.
• Must be able to multitask, manage time and prioritise effectively.
• Problem-solving skills to analyse the problem following a logical and methodical approach, whilst also thinking creatively to provide a solution.
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills.