SENIOR CONTROLS & AUTOMATION ENGINEER

Shape the future of water and wastewater services with United Utilities
At United Utilities, we’re proud to be at the heart of providing clean water and protecting the environment across the North West. To help us continue delivering this vital service, we’re looking for Senior Controls & Automation Engineers to join our team.
In this senior role, you’ll be the go to technical expert, ensuring our automation and control systems are running at their best. You’ll use your skills to mentor and develop colleagues, support project delivery, and drive improvements in how we manage and maintain our assets.

• Lead and mentor: provide technical leadership, coaching, and training for field service engineers, apprentices, and technical staff to build a strong, capable team.
• Keep us running: deliver effective maintenance and repair services across our water and wastewater sites, ensuring assets are reliable, efficient, and compliant.
• Be the expert: act as a subject matter expert for OT ICS equipment and infrastructure, leading post-incident reviews, advising on improvements, and supporting project delivery.
• Drive improvements: review and enhance OT processes, champion new ways of working, and support technical governance across projects.
• Hands-on technical work: carry out planned maintenance, troubleshoot and resolve automation faults, optimise control system performance, and ensure secure software back-ups.
• Documentation & compliance: create and maintain technical documentation (drawings, network architectures, RAMS, O&Ms, etc.) and ensure compliance with CDM, health & safety, and information security requirements.
• Support investment & projects: identify critical spares, input into investment needs, and contribute to capital and operational projects.
• On-call support: providing rapid response to operational issues when needed.