About the job
At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values—care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration—combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities, are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions.
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ABB Energy Industries is enabling safe, smart, and sustainable projects and operations for businesses across the oil, gas, chemicals, life sciences, power generation, and water sectors. We drive integrated solutions that automate, digitalize, and electrify industry, connecting our people and technology to help our customers adapt and succeed. With over 50 years of domain expertise, we continue to innovate and reshape traditional approaches across the energy sector with technologies designed to improve operational efficiency, reduce risk, and minimize energy consumption and waste.
Work model: Hybrid
Your responsibilities:
- Act as a technical lead, approving design deliverables and reviewing project documents to ensure conformity, safety, and quality assurance.
- Anticipate and solve critical issues, serving as a specialist in advanced concepts and methods.
- Act as design authority for a specific engineering discipline, completing assignments and collaborating on project installation and commissioning.
- Provide technical support to commissioning and start-up activities, shaping customer solutions based on feedback.
- Finalize ‘Fail-Safe Philosophy’ and other key concepts during kick-off and design freeze meetings.
- Participate in project meetings to resolve outstanding technical issues and meet contractual obligations.
- Assist in preparing proposals and presentations for engineering projects/programs.
- Apply Design Thinking concepts in projects, including modeling, prototyping, simulation, and calculations.
- Perform project peer reviews and utilize checklists for design verification according to applicable standards.
- Share experiences in workshops pertaining to engineering design, tools, and processes, coaching colleagues on best practices.
- Ensure engineering activities comply with safety regulations and contractual requirements, reporting any issues to Project Managers with recommendations.
- Ensure Bill of Material (BOM) meets contractual obligations and project margin requirements.
- Create work plans and cost estimates in consultation with Project Managers, ensuring quality deliverables on time and at targeted costs.
- Collaborate with supply chain and manufacturing/testing teams to ensure appropriate technical solutions are manufactured/staged and tested.
- Contribute to customer satisfaction by planning and executing service work and projects according to customer expectations.
Qualifications for the role:
- Engineering Degree with overall networking and cybersecurity systems understanding combined with automation systems knowledge.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role, preferably with industrial networking and cybersecurity solutions for control systems, especially in oil and gas sectors.
- Strong customer interpersonal and communication skills.
- Expertise in designing and implementing Operational Technology (OT) network solutions for control systems, in-depth knowledge of cybersecurity principles, practices, and frameworks, with a focus on OT environments.
- Familiarity with OT-specific cybersecurity standards such as ISA/IEC 62443.
- Experience with firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and network segmentation in industrial settings.
- Hands-on experience with industrial switches and routers, particularly with CISCO Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches.
- Knowledge of Layer 2 network technology including VLAN, VTP, STP, RSTP, and MPLS.
- Familiarity with common OT protocols (Modbus, IEC 104, OPC, IEC 61850).
- CCNA (R&S/Security) and CCNP (R&S/Security) certifications.
- Experience with cybersecurity solutions such as McAfee ePO, Cisco FTD, FortiGate, etc.
- Fluency in English.
Benefits:
We value people from different backgrounds and invite you to apply today to join our team in creating impactful solutions across the globe.
