Controls Engineer

Location: GB-Ashby de la Zouch-Power House, Excelsior Road

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Would you like to work on cutting edge power management and energy management systems within energy & industrial sectors?

Do you enjoy being part of a successful team?

Join our team! 

Baker Hughes is a global energy technology company supporting customers across the full energy and industrial value chain. With operations in more than 120 countries, the company develops advanced technologies and services that help improve efficiency, enhance safety, and reduce environmental impact.

Through its broad portfolio—spanning oilfield services, subsea solutions, industrial technologies, and digital capabilities—Baker Hughes plays a key role in enabling the industry’s transition toward lower‑carbon and more sustainable energy systems. The company leverages engineering expertise, innovation, and global scale to help accelerate progress toward a cleaner energy future.

Partner with the best 

As a Controls Engineer, you will design, implement, test, and commission control solutions for power generation equipment and rotating electrical machines (e.g., generators, exciters, switchgear, auxiliary systems). You’ll work across the full lifecycle—requirements capture, detailed design, PLC/HMI/SCADA programming, factory/site acceptance testing, commissioning at customer sites, and ongoing optimization/support. The role is hands‑on, customer‑facing, and central to delivering reliable, safe, and high‑performance power solutions.

As a Controls Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Designing and developing advanced control software for power system control, protection, and monitoring applications, ensuring high reliability, safety, and performance.
• Preparing, reviewing, and validating detailed technical specifications for control system projects, ensuring compliance with project scope, standards, and customer requirements.
• Creating comprehensive engineering deliverables, including I/O lists, functional specifications, control narratives, logic diagrams, and signal mapping based on project requirements.
• Defining, documenting, and optimising control system network architectures, ensuring secure, robust, and scalable communication between system components.
• Configuring and commissioning hardware platforms, including processors, PLCs, controllers, I/O modules, Ethernet switches, gateways, firewalls, and associated communication interfaces.
• Developing thorough software test plans and verification procedures, ensuring all functional and safety requirements are met prior to customer engagement.
• Executing rigorous internal testing and simulations, identifying and resolving issues ahead of formal customer witness testing to ensure a smooth and successful validation process.

 Fuel your passion 

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a degree (or equivalent experience) in Control / Automation/ Electrical/ Electronic Engineering or related discipline.
• Demonstrable experience in industrial control systems for power generation, rotating equipment, or heavy industry (OEM, EPC, or end‑user).
• Have knowledge of software-based microsystems / control and communication systems including Modbus TCP/IP, OPC UA, IEC61850
• Have knowledge of operating systems such as QNX and Windows.
• Ability to interpret electrical power system and switchgear components and create technical and functional design specification
• Experience with FAT/SAT, commissioning, and field troubleshooting.
• Hands‑on expertise with PLC/HMI/SCADA platforms and industrial communications.
• Strong understanding of control theory, instrumentation, signal processing, and panel/build practices.
• Clear, concise technical communication; able to produce high‑quality documentation.

Work in a way that works for you
 

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• In this role we can offer flexibility work 3 days in the office with 2 days remotely working from home.
   

Working with us
 

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.
 

Working for you
 

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:
 

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits