Senior Instrumentation Engineer

About Us - Severn 

Purpose:

Part of Severn Group, Severn Valve manufactures and supports high-quality valves for the energy industries. Its control, choke and butterfly valves are pre-eminent in the global market, underpinning the reliability and high performance of business-critical client infrastructure. Severn Valve’s global reach, technical prowess, and collaborative approach – all founded upon a heritage of British engineering excellence – helping to assure production continuity for clients and reduce the prospect of costly downtime. Its understanding of the life-cycle of assets positions Severn Valve to offer end-to-end engineering solutions, enabling clients to meet their core imperatives: safe operations and minimum downtime. To provide guidance and support on the selection, set up, maintenance and problem solving of instrumentation and actuation used on Severns range of products. 

Key Accountabilities:

• Offer high level technical bid support through Instrumentation knowledge.
• Be the company subject matter expert on instrumentation and actuation, common site issues and competitors’ offerings.
• Development and maintain schematics and database of valve pneumatic instrumentation.
• Compilation and upkeep of instrumentation and bracketry tools to aid BOM creation.
• Ongoing improvements to instrumentation kit design and drawing office tool kits using lessons learned.
• Ensure valve assemblies are to correct customer specification and provide acceptable performance.
• Where required provide support to production operations with set up and problem solving.
• Align selection process across the division ensuring the same design principles are used.
• Collaboration with 3rd parties on development projects.
• Development and introduction of new in-house actuators as required by Severns new product roadmap. 

Expertise:

Essential

• A Minimum of 5 years’ experience within the control valve industry, showing a proven track record of technical advancement.
• Excellent knowledge of control valves, actuation, and instrumentation.
• Good working knowledge of pneumatic systems and performance requirement for control valves.
• Ability to be able to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.

Desirable

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Systematic approach to tasks and problems.
• High level of attention to detail and a drive for continuous improvement.
• Effective and timely analytical skills.Proficiency with CAD packages such as Solid Edge, Solid Works or AutoCAD.