Controls and Instrumention Engineer

Overview

In this role you will help design, build, and validate bespoke industrial control and instrumentation systems. You’ll work hands-on across installation, testing, commissioning, and optimization of new test stands and equipment within a multidisciplinary team. You’ll contribute to bringing first‑of‑a‑kind rigs to life, supporting projects from concept through operation and offering site support, including occasional international work. This is a hands-on opportunity to impact scalable, reliable industrial systems at ALTEN.

Pay / Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Cycle & Tech Scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Life insurance & Pension Scheme
• Flexible way of working (role dependent)
• Social atmosphere and team events

Responsibilities

• Support installation, wiring and integration of industrial control and instrumentation systems
• Assist with development and commissioning of new test stands and engineering equipment
• Troubleshoot electrical, instrumentation, and control system issues during development and testing
• Interpret electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, and technical documentation
• Perform system validation, fault-finding, diagnostics, and root cause analysis
• Support hardware integration activities to ensure safe and effective operation
• Collaborate with design, test, and development engineers to improve performance and reliability
• Contribute to commissioning, verification, and acceptance testing activities
• Participate in occasional international commissioning and site support activities

Key requirements

• Experience as a Controls & Instrumentation Engineer, Control Systems Engineer, or Automation Engineer in an industrial environment
• Strong hands-on electrical and instrumentation experience
• Proven experience with PLC-based control systems including commissioning, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and hardware integration
• Experience with SCADA systems for monitoring, control, and fault investigation
• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, P&IDs, and technical documentation
• Experience with panel wiring, field instrumentation, sensors, actuators, and industrial control hardware
• Strong fault-finding and debugging skills across electrical and control systems
• Knowledge of industrial control system standards and engineering best practices
• Comfortable working in a practical engineering environment with developing/testing/refining equipment

• team collaboration
• problem solving
• attention to safety and quality
• PLC-based control systems
• SCADA
• electrical schematics and P&IDs

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