Control System Engineer

The European Spallation Source - ESS, a partnership of European countries building a worldclass Neutron science facility. ESS can offer a variety of things, such as passionate and international colleagues, a vibrant melting pot of diversity, and a challenging, exciting and high paced work environment. We value and need expertise, innovative minds and great ways of leading and interacting with people from all over the world.

Come and change the world with us! 

ESS is now looking for a Control System Engineer to support our Hardware and Integration group. 

About the Team
The Hardware and Integration group is responsible for the integration of all hardware in the ESS facility into the integrated control system. This includes a diverse flora of different systems ranging from PLC systems for water flow control to fast FPGA-based data acquisition systems. All integrated towards the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System software framework. 

About the role
The main responsibilities associated with this position are:

• Interacting with Integrated Control System (ICS) stakeholders to define requirements, design and develop control systems

• Document and analyse stakeholder and internal requirements
• Participate in creating test and validation plans according to requirements
• Design control system solutions and prepare for technical reviews
• Implement and realize the designed solution
• Troubleshoot and optimize performance of existing solutions
• Drive test, validation procedures for the designed solution, maintain and support the delivered systems

• Interacting with ICS’s partners

• Formulate and document requirements for partner contributions
• Participate in follow-up on partner development activities
• Review and assess designs and documents from partner contributors
• Ensure a high quality level of delivered contributions
• Maintain and support systems delivered by partners
• Participate in planning and reporting

• Reporting weekly progress/issues/next steps to work package managers

• Support work package and project managers with technical competence
• Assist work package activities and work package managers with Earned Value
• Management project reporting

• Ensure that all work is executed in accordance with ESS quality assurance and safety procedures
• Actively participate in work with deliverable and process quality

About You:
For you to be successful in this role, we require that you have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, technology or science
• 2 years or longer of experience from work with control system development
• 2 years or longer experience in control system integration, preferably using EPICS but other SCADA systems are also meriting
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Excellent oral and written English skills, including developing technical control system documentation in English

It would further be to your advantage if you also have:

• Higher academic degree in related topic
• 5+ years of relevant professional control system development experience
• 2+ years of experience from EPICS integration and development
• Experience with high speed data acquisition systems
• Experience in motion control applications
• Experience in experimental controls applications
• Experience in software development languages such as C/C++
• Experience from “big science” projects
• Experience and knowledge about quality assurance and verification of control systems, preferably using automated test tools
• Experience in system engineering and total lifecycle management of control systems
• Experience from complex, international technical/scientific projects

Our work environment is characterised by fast growth, fast pace of work, and an international atmosphere with highly skilled personnel. Our work environment is exciting and forward thinking and relies heavily on personal initiative.

What ESS will offer
At ESS you can expect:

• an opportunity to contribute to the future discoveries within neutron science
• a work environment filled with innovative minds and people from all over the world
• a challenging, exciting and high-paced work environment
• market competitive compensation that is individual and differentiated according to role, responsibilities, individual skills, abilities, and achievements
• benefits including 30 days of annual leave as well as more than 10 days of public holiday and company days off or days with limited working hours, flexible working arrangements and focus on work life balance
• and where applicable relocation support and allowances may also be available

Duration & Location
The position is permanent with six months initial probation period. Your work place will be situated in Lund, Sweden. 

Start date
The position is to be filled as soon as possible but due to the summer season at the door we will not invite to first interviews until August.

Application & Contact
Please provide your curriculum vitae and cover letter in English by clicking on “apply” and following the instructions. Please note we only accept applications via the ESS website or ESS intranet. Internal candidates are encouraged to apply through the intranet.

The deadline for applications is 2022-08-14.

For more information regarding the ESS recruitment process in general, please follow this link https://europeanspallationsource.se/ess-recruitment-process. 

For further information regarding the position, please contact the recruiting manager, Karl Vestin, [email protected]

For further information regarding the recruitment process, please contact HR Officer, Karin Vandenborre, [email protected]  

For trade union information please contact Unionen / Conny Wendt, [email protected] or SACO / Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers/ Yngve Levinsen, [email protected]

We look forward to receiving your application!