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# Principal Control Systems Engineer

- **Company:** HIGHFIELD PROFESSIONAL SOLUTIONS LTD
- **Location:** Penwortham, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £124,800.0 - £145,600.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Product Software Implementation Methods
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2936280167-2

## About the Role

* Control Systems / Automation Engineering background
 * Functional control and functional safety experience
 * Control system design, drawings, graphics and technical documentation
 * Experience within nuclear, power, process, defence or another highly regulated industry
 * Siemens experience advantageous
 * Principal Engineers should have experience providing technical leadership and design assurance

Excellent opportunity to join a major nuclear programme at an early stage and help shape the control system design.

## Description

We are recruiting Senior and Principal Control Systems Engineers to support an early-stage nuclear programme.
The project is currently in the design phase, with a Siemens-based hardware and software platform being developed. The focus will be on functional controls, functional safety and detailed control system design, rather than software implementation.


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