Automation Lead

Join Saipem and engineer a sustainable future.

We are a global leader in engineering and construction for the energy and infrastructure sectors, delivering complex onshore and offshore projects worldwide. Driven by technological innovation as \"One Company\", our 30,000 people from over 130 nationalities in more than 50 countries work every day to enable the energy transition toward Net Zero. At Saipem, we embrace diversity as a driver of innovation and inclusion, while prioritizing people’s safety and environmental sustainability, even in the most challenging conditions.

As Automation & Advanced Control Systems Lead, you will respond to the Head of Instrumentation, Control and Telecommunication Engineering Department (SMAUT) and be part of the ENERGY CARRIERS (ENCAR) business line, focused mainly on onshore plants and floaters.

As Automation & Advanced Control Systems Lead, you will be involved in project execution, starting from the estimation phase up to the detail design development and engineering site activities of standard Automation (DCS, ESD, FGS, MMS, CCS, …), Advanced Control System (ALMS, APC, PIMS, OTS, CPMS, …) and New Digital Technologies (Process & Asset Performance Optimizer, Digital Twin, …). You will lead and coordinate all engineering activities related to Automation & Advanced Control Systems within the assigned project, ensuring full compliance with technical requirements, project management guidelines, budget constraints, schedule targets and quality standards.

Keep full monitoring and control of the project scope and execution. Verify the EHRS project budget and confirm alignment with project targets. Timely detect potential schedule issues, assess workload distribution and plan resource allocation according to the execution strategy.

Review, analyze and endorse Client technical documentation and requirements, identifying contractual criticalities. Develop Control Systems technical specification and architecture; ensure proper development of block diagrams, control narratives, sequence flow charts, cause and effect diagrams, logic diagrams, instrument loop diagrams; ensure proper management of the project Control Systems I/O’s databases.

Prepare the technical requisitions both for material and services, perform the technical alignment of bidders, prepare and finalize the technical evaluations.

Monitor and control vendor control systems detail design development, ensuring prompt verification of vendor design documentation (including functional design specifications, drawings, procedures and manuals) and guaranteeing compliance with project requirements and project schedule. Attend and perform Control Systems FAT/IFAT and SAT, witnessing the compliance of vendor provided systems with project requirements.

Ensure adequate support to other functions and disciplines by actively participating in multidisciplinary reviews, coordinating and expediting the collection of required suppliers information, and providing technical evaluations, cost/schedule estimates and risk assessments to ensure that all engineering decisions are effectively communicated and properly implemented across the project organization.

Plan and coordinate both internal and external activities. Coordinate and ensure the execution of specialist engineering activities, monitoring progress against the agreed schedule, analyzing deviations, and identifying and implementing the necessary corrective actions to achieve Project objectives.

Optimize Control Systems design ensuring minimal cost and complexity in compliance with the contractual and safety requirements. Perform site engineering activities during construction and commissioning phases.

What are we looking for?

Education: Technical diploma, bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in STEM discipline.

Experience: At least 10 years of experience in Automation and Advanced Control Systems Engineering with at least 5 Years in the role of Leader, within the Energy Sector: Power plants, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Renewable or Floaters.

Technical/IT Skills:

Strong leadership and interpersonal skills by fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and proactive team environment. Motivate team members, promote open communication, support knowledge sharing, and facilitate constructive interactions with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment, accountability, and a positive contribution to project objectives.

Interface himself/herself independently with the other engineering disciplines and with the suppliers, in order to identify optimized solutions from a technical/economical point of view.

Independently capture, analyze and solve interdisciplinary issues affecting control systems scope of work, that may occur