Lead Control Systems Engineer

Lead Control Systems Engineer

Lead Control Systems Engineer

• Job Type Full Time
• Qualification BA/BSc/HND
• Experience 8 years
• Location Rivers
• City Port Harcourt
• Job Field Engineering / Technical
• We are seeking an experienced Lead Control Systems Engineer to lead the engineering, configuration, integration, testing, commissioning, maintenance, and troubleshooting of industrial control and automation systems across our projects and field operations within Nigeria's oil and gas, energy, and industrial sectors.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the engineering, configuration, integration, testing, commissioning, maintenance, and troubleshooting of industrial control and automation systems.
• Develop and review control philosophies, functional design specifications, control narratives, I/O lists, cause-and-effect matrices, system architectures, interface schedules, wiring requirements, and related technical documentation.
• Develop, configure, and review PLC, DCS, SCADA, and HMI applications, including control logic, sequences, permissives, interlocks, alarms, graphics, trends, and historian interfaces.
• Lead the integration of package skids, instruments, drives, motor controls, remote I/O, supervisory systems, and industrial communication networks.
• Supervise assigned control systems engineers and technicians, including work allocation, technical guidance, quality review, and competency development.
• Lead FAT, SAT, integration testing, commissioning, loop checks, functional testing, and system handover activities.
• Support brownfield modifications, system upgrades, migrations, controlled cutovers, shutdowns, backups, rollback planning. and management-of-change activities.
• Support SIS, ESD, and F&G engineering and testing within approved scope and competence.
• Apply approved OT cybersecurity controls, including network segregation, secure configurations, and access management.
• Lead diagnosis and resolution of controller, I/O, network, software, communications, and interface faults, coordinating safe restoration with Operations and other stakeholders.
• Develop and support preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, reliability improvement, root-cause investigations, and control-syste