Graduate Projects Engineer – Cyber Security

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Working as a Graduate project Engineer, you will be delivering the hardware and software platforms for various automation systems and services, engineering projects in the Energy Industries in the UK, providing hands on support to our projects. Reporting to the Engineering Section Manager, you will implement hands on technical solutions in various phases of customer projects to ensure successful delivery of project deliverables on time, within budget and in line with quality and safety guidelines. You will be joining a team working with operational technology, the hardware and software that detects or causes a change, through the direct monitoring and/or control of industrial equipment, assets, processes, and events. Various possible pathways and cross-training available (Subject to operational need) within Process Automation, System Build & Industrial Cyber Security.

This position reports to

Project Execution Support Manager

Your responsibilities

• Evaluates, selects, and applies standard techniques and procedures to perform engineering assignments.
• Provides technical support for testing, installation, and commissioning activities.
• Prepares project documentation within one’s scope of deliverables.
• Finalizes ‘fail-safe philosophy’, “secure-by-design principles”, and other key concepts as part of kick-off and design freeze meetings.
• Participates in project meetings and resolves any outstanding technical issues to meet contractual obligations.
• Assists in preparing proposal / presentation of engineering projects/programs (provision of bills of materials, estimated engineering hours, etc.).
• Applies basic design thinking / design for excellence concepts in projects.
• Utilizes checklists to perform design verification according to applicable standards and engineering guidelines.
• Contributes and shares experiences in workshops related to engineering design, tools, and processes.
• Shares best practices / lessons-learned documentation across different projects and disciplines.
• Uses standard processes and tools applicable to one’s area of responsibility.
• Ensures that engineering activities comply with required safety regulations and contractual requirements.
• Reports processes and tools inefficiencies and suggests improvements ideas.
• Supports technical risk assessments and implements resulting actions for their projects.
• Ensures that Bill of Materials (BOM) for the project meets contractual obligations and project gross margin requirements, by not generating Project Left-Over Material (PLOM).
• Identifies and implements variation requests to support contract claims based on the approval from project manager.

Your background

• A high level of self-motivation, curiosity and desire to learn about new technologies.
• Sound practical knowledge of IT foundations: Operating Systems, Networks, Cyber Security principles.
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Controls Engineering, Automation Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or similar STEM foundations.
• Willingness to gain hands on understanding of ABB’s Industrial Automation systems.
• Willingness to gain hands on understanding of ABB’s digital / cloud-based tools and solutions.
• Willingness to participate in all aspects of the ABB UK Graduate development program.
• Work closely with a team of software and hardware engineers.
• Work closely within an integrated multi-national team of specialist engineers and tools.
• Understand and update existing hardware and software modules for the development and maintenance of ABB’s Control System products.

More about us

We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com.