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• Develop and maintain new products within the Engineering and Software teams.• Support and develop existing software products.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Develop and maintain existing products within the Engineering and Software teams.• Main point of contact for customers and the service team supporting controls, instrumentation and software issues.• In-house subject matter expert on controls systems, instrumentation and software for all products including Torque Machines, Jar Testers, Centralizer Test Rigs and Taut Wire systems.• Analysis of legacy control systems and recommendation of upgrades to clients with consideration to safety, risk, costs, regulations and down-time.• Ensure that software revisions are controlled, documented and tested effectively.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Research, development and deployment of bespoke instrumentation and control systems for offshore drilling rigs, from design and prototyping to the testing and commercial release of products.• Analysis of legacy control systems and recommendation of upgrades to clients with consideration to risk, costs, regulations and down-time.• Development of PLC, HMI and PC software for all engineering systems.• Steer selection of PLC, HMI, Networking and Server Hardware along with software packages, programming languages and technologies whilst conforming to industry standards, best practices and budgets.• Ensure that software revisions are controlled, documented and tested effectively.• Production of technical documentation for all control system projects.• 24/7 engineering and programming support for multiple offshore installations at a supervisor level. These include BOP Control Systems, Travelling Block Monitoring Systems, WITS data services and upgrade projects.• Management of the R&D programming team and development of bespoke control, maintenance and logging systems for drilling rigs.• Mentoring and technical training of Engineers and Graduates, both onshore and offshore.• Represent company at industry events, conferences and training seminars.• High-level technical sales support to customers worldwide.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Responsible for Research & Development, improving current and developing new engineering products.• Provide first line engineering support for Project Engineers and customers in the field.• Mentoring Project Engineers and Graduates, both onshore and offshore.• Offshore commissioning of all systems.• Development of Siemens S7-200, S7-300 and S7-1200 PLC software.• Worldwide management and support of company IT.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the design, manufacture, installation and commissioning of drilling instrumentation and control systems.• Responsible for entire projects from sales handover to final invoicing.• Production and delivery of engineering documentation, system manuals and databooks.• Experienced in Travelling Block Monitors, Anti-Collision Systems, Zone Management Systems, Choke Control Consoles, Elmagco Brake Controllers/Battery Backup/Brake Monitors, Rig Monitoring Systems, Emergency Shutdown Systems, Position Monitoring Systems, BOP Fluid Monitors and Loggers, Remote Access & Monitoring Systems.• Experienced with Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electronics and Instrumentation.• Configuration and commissioning of Siemens S7-200, S7-300 and S7-1200 PLC's.• Offshore installation and commissioning of all systems.• Management and support of all company IT, including the Singapore office.

Dundee, United Kingdom

• Design, deployment and administration of scalable cloud based network infrastructure.• Responsible for system performance, reliability, scalability, security and redundancy.• Development of cloud based software including a content management web application and an automated statistics processing and reporting system.

Dundee, United Kingdom

• Management of the Programming, Art and Quality Assurance Teams.• Day-to-day communications with clients and publishers, delivery of builds and the management of outsourcing.• Responsible for ensuring the Development Team meets demanding schedules and deadlines.• Successful completion of several projects through the entire product life cycle, including iPhone and Sony PSP/PS3 Minis titles.

Dundee, United Kingdom

• Programmer on several top game titles.• Responsible for the development of games, game engines, processing algorithms and application frameworks.• Responsible for the creation and implementation of all audio assets within the projects.• Development and maintenance of a cross-project, cross-platform build system.• Implementation and administration of a multi-project version control system.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Administrator on multi-million pound real-time oil well monitoring service.• Server Administrator aiming for 100% server uptime, maximum server performance and system security.• Direct client relations via telephone and e-mail, providing quick and efficient solutions for queries, problems and requests.• Working alone on a 24 hour shift rota system.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Administration of an oilfield asset archiving system.• Archiving, restoring and reordering business critical records.• The production of automated archiving processes using custom Unix SQL scripts and programs.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Administration of an oil well logging archive system.• Archiving and restoring business records.• General data loading and archiving.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Producing and distributing time critical oil well logging data products.• Distributing physical data within tight deadlines.• General office duties.