Control System Integrator

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ESS is now looking for a Control System Integrator for the Control System Hardware & Integration Support Group organised within the Technical Directorate. The Control System Hardware & Integration Support Group is responsible for developing, installing, commissioning and maintaining all non-safety related control systems for the ESS facility.

Job description

As part of the Control System Hardware & Integration Support Group you will be interacting with Integrated Control System (ICS) stakeholders to define requirements and to design and develop control systems.

Your main areas of responsibilities as a Control System Integrator will be to:


• Document and analyse stakeholder and internal requirements.
• Participate in creating test and validation plans according to requirements.
• Design control system solutions and prepare for technical reviews.
• Implement and realize the designed solution.
• Troubleshoot and optimize performance of existing solutions.
• Drive test and validation procedures for the designed solution.
• Maintain and support the delivered systems.
• Interacting with various ICS partners to formulate and document requirements for partner contributions.
• Participate in follow-up on ESS partner development activities.
• Review and assess designs and documents from ESS partner contributors.
• Ensure a high quality level of delivered contributions.
• Maintain and support systems delivered by ESS partners.
• Participate in planning and reporting – including reporting weekly progress/issues/next steps to work package managers.
• Support work package and project managers with technical competence.
• Assist work package activities and work package managers with Earned Value Management project reporting.
• Ensure that all work is executed in accordance with ESS quality assurance and safety procedures.
• Actively participate in work with deliverable and process quality 

Qualifications

You will have a background in integration and development – preferably in an EPICS environment – or similar demonstrable industrial automation experience, for example with Siemens PLC development using the Tia portal. You are comfortable using software development languages such as C/C++ and you ideally have prior experience of quality assurance processes and with the verification of control systems. Prior experience with complex, large-scale international technical or scientific projects would be extremely advantageous.

In order to be considered for this position, the following qualifications are mandatory:


• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering, technology or science.
• 3+ years of experience from work with control system development
• 2+ years of experience from integrating control systems (preferably using EPICS, but experience from industrial standards such as SCADA is a distinct advantage).

In addition, we truly believe that you are someone who:


• Listens, consults others and communicates proactively.
• Applies specialist and detailed technical expertise.
• Develops job knowledge and expertise through continual professional development.
• Shares expertise and knowledge with others.
• Demonstrates an understanding of how one issue may be a part of a much larger system.
• Uses technology to achieve work objectives.
• Works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way.
• Consistently achieves project goals.

Skills and experience

In addition to the above qualifications and experience, we believe that you also have:


• A genuine interest in - and understanding of - other people.
• The ability to adapt to a team and build team spirit.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Excellent oral and written English skills, including developing technical control system documentation in English

Duration & Location

The position is permanent with a six-month initial probationary period. This role may require occasional shift work and on-call duties.

Your work place will be situated in Lund, Sweden.

Start date

The position is to be filled as soon as possible.

Application and contact

Please provide your curriculum vitae in English by clicking on “apply” and follow the instructions. Please note that we only accept applications via the ESS website.

For some roles at ESS health check-ups and security clearance are required, and thus this might be applicable in the final parts of the recruitment process. The applicant is expected to be fit to perform the applicable tasks of this recruitment.  

The deadline for applications is January 14th, 2022.

For more information regarding the ESS recruitment process, please follow this link https://europeanspallationsource.se/ess-recruitment-process. 

For further information regarding the position, please contact the Recruiting Manager, Karl Vestin - Group leader for Control System Hardware & Integration Support Group - at karl.vestin@ess.eu. For further information regarding the recruitment process, please contact Daniel Nordin Baker at daniel.nordin@ess.eu

For trade union information please contact Unionen / Conny Wendt at conny.wendt@ess.eu or SACO / Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers/ Johan Waldeck at johan.waldeck@ess.eu

We look forward to receiving your application soon.