Lead Engineer / Senior Project Engineer

Job description

The solutions of Valmet's Automation business line are designed to maximize the profitability of our customers' businesses by improving production performance and cost, energy and material efficiency. Our worldwide network of experts supports our extensive range of process automation solutions and services. We serve our customers in the process industries, power generation, marine, oil & gas and pulp&paper.

We are looking for a Lead Engineer/Senior Project Engineer to lead our hardware and software projects. In this role you will be responsible for the technical implementation of project deliveries, ensuring timeliness, cost efficiency and meeting of customer expectations. You will play an important role in our global engineering organization and your location will be Gliwice (Polish CSE Engineering Hub). The main tasks are to design DCS Control System (hardware and system design, application engineering), test and commission the product in the mills mostly in CSE region (Continental Eastern Europe: Poland, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Czech, Slovakia, Italy, Balkan Countries)

Job description (in details):

• Takes part, if needed, in the sales team and assists the Project Manager as a technical expert.
• Participate in the project planning, including overall scheduling, risk analysis/contingency plan, and installation checklists
• Supervise definition phase of the project, including internal/external kick-off meetings, system definition (hardware and software), customer communication, and freezing dates
• Participate and supervise the internal testing and customer Factory Acceptance Testing
• Handle change requests together with the project manager
• Manage the punch list for timely completion
• Supervise completion of application/performance report(s)
• Participate in project feedbacks meeting with the project team (lessons learned)
• Perform and supervise engineering of DCS systems (Valmet DNA for instance), data link, process definition and system conversions or migrations
• Prepare, perform and supervise I/Os checkout
• Advanced troubleshooting during the testing and commissioning phases of the project, and feedback of relevant corrective actions to the product home
• Provide or supervise training for customer operations and maintenance personnel
• Finalize system documentation and prepare commissioning reports

Requirements

B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree in automation (or similar). In addition, skills & experience in delivery projects, distributed control systems (DCS) and/or programmable logic controllers (PLC), automation or electrical engineering and commissioning activities will be a plus. Process knowhow of Power Industry and experience related to DCS/PLC systems is considered as a strength. Especially knowledge of Power Generation Plants / Combine Heating Plants technology would be a significant asset.

You are familiar with engineering related quality assurance and control methods and these are guiding your daily work. You are a customer oriented self-driven team player, having the abilities to lead a project team. Your project planning competences & systematical way of working leads to excellent results. You have a hands-on and flexible attitude in everything you do. You have fluent written and spoken Polish & English. Other foreign languages communication skills would be an additional strength. Microsoft Office, CAD/CAE software basic knowhow and driving license (B category) reqired.

We offer

We offer you a global professional network, work with well-known brand and interesting and challenging position in global project organization. You will have possibility to develop yourself and together with other professionals, take our customers’ business forward. We combine strong local expertise, global resources and certified business models.We offer stable, interesting and challenging job in a friendly, international environment with numerous opportunities for professional growth. In addition to permanent contract, we offer high-level health insurance (MediCover), a Multisport voucher and a social fund package and business travel insurance.