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Join a pioneering company on the cutting edge of synthetic fuel production to help decarbonise heavy industry.
Overview
Salary
£70000 - £90000
Location
Bermondsey, South London
Expires
Organisation summary Rivan Industries is building modular synthetic fuel plants to decarbonise heavy industry. Here's our whitepaper on how we're going to do it: https://rivan.com/the-case-for-synthetic-fuels/
Role Summary
- Manage existing pilot deployments and operations.
- Grow control systems to deploy thousands of synthetic fuel plants.
- Ensure performance and reliability of deployed control systems.
- Define and implement control standards for fleet expansion.
- Manage engineering changes to deployed systems ensuring compliance with risk controls.
- Design scalable control architectures.
- Standardise PLC, SCADA, and telemetry patterns across sites.
- Develop remote diagnostics and fleet-wide monitoring capability.
Role Requirements
- Led design, commissioning, and lifecycle ownership of distributed control systems.
- Experience with safety functions under IEC 61508, SRS development, SIL verification.
- Delivered systems compliant with LVD, Machinery Directive, and CE/UKCA.
- IEC 61131-3, HMI design, and development experience.
- Integration and troubleshooting of industrial communications systems.
- IT infrastructure experience with databases, networking, and field communication.
- Hands-on commissioning and fault-finding on complex industrial systems.
- Preferable: Factory automation experience, Python 3, Hardware-In-Loop testing, Solidworks Electrical/ECAD tools.
Rivan Industries (Rivan.com) is a synthetic fuel company designed to decarbonise heavy industry. We aim to make synthetic fuel cheaper than fossil fuels and sustain life on earth by keeping the CO2 locked underground. We design and manufacture modular synthetic fuel plants consisting of a DAC system, an Alkaline Electrolyser, and a Sabatier Reactor, whilst vertically integrating with off-grid DC solar and the European gas-grid. We’ve recently deployed the UK’s largest synthetic fuel plant and are planning to 1000x this scale in the next 2 years. We need robust, scalable control systems that can be deployed across a growing fleet of synthetic fuel plants. We are looking for someone who can manage our existing pilot deployments and operations, and grow our controls systems to deploy 1000s of synthetic fuel plants ASAP. The role: Own the performance and reliability of deployed control systems. Define and implement control standards for fleet expansion. Manage engineering changes to deployed systems, ensuring compliance with existing risk controls (cause/effect schedule, HAZOP/HAZID) Design control architectures that can scale from pilot to thousands of deployments. Standardise PLC, SCADA, and telemetry patterns across sites. Develop remote diagnostics and fleet-wide monitoring capability. Core skills: Led the design, commissioning, and lifecycle ownership of distributed control systems in hazardous or high-energy process environments. Experience implementing safety functions under IEC 61508 (or related standards), including SRS development, SIL verification, and change management. Delivered systems compliant with LVD, Machinery Directive, and CE/UKCA IEC 61131-3 (ST/LD/FBD, Codesys), HMI design and development Integration and troubleshooting of industrial communications (Modbus TCP/RTU, CANbus, OPC-UA) in multi-device, multi-site systems. IT infrastructure (databases, networking, field-communication, fleet management) Hands-on commissioning and fault-finding experience on complex industrial systems Preferable skills: Factory automation experience Python 3 Hardware-In-Loop testing Solidworks Electrical / ECAD tools
