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You'llkeep the electrolyser systems we deploy here running, in tight collaboration with our teams in Tallinn: preventive maintenance, fault diagnosis, and service work on control and automation. You will also take a leading role in researching, coordinating, and implementing MTP (Module Type Package) assessment and integration in Stargate Hydrogen electrolyser systems. MTP is a young standardand we are not expecting you to have delivered it before. We are looking for someone who picks up new protocols and standards quickly, andwants to.\nYou'dfit this role if you like being the person who works out why a plant actually stopped, not just what the alarm log says. You take pride in getting a customer's plant running and keeping it running.\nWe have high standardsfor the quality and reliability of what we deliver, and we'relooking for someone who pairs field service and commissioning experience with strong PLC/IPC programming skills and the ability to integrate communication interfaces between hardware in complex systems.\nAbout the company:\nStargate Hydrogen designs and manufactures alkaline electrolysers for industrial hydrogen production. We hold IPCEI status, one of a select group of companies backed by the EU to deliver large-scale, cross-border hydrogen projects, and we're backed by investors including Repsol, Skeleton Tech, SmartCap, and UGI, with clients such as Fortum, Utilitas, ABB, and Rockfin.\nYou'llbe the first automation and service hire in our Finland entity, and our presence on the ground for Finnish customers. Our service line is built out of Tallinn, so you'llwork in tight collaboration with our Service and Integration team, who own commissioning and service, and our Automation team, who own control system engineering. They set technical direction and back you up on site. Design and Process Engineering are your other regular counterparts in Tallinn.\nWhat does the day-to-day look like in this role?\nConfigure and tune control system hardware, PLCs, safety controllers, remote I/O modules, and variable frequency drives, and calibrate field instrumentation.\nSet up and troubleshoot fieldbus networks and communication protocols (EtherCAT, PROFINET, Modbus TCP/RTU, OPC UA), IP addressing schemes, and managed switches, and integrate electrolyser control systems with third-party DCS/SCADA at customer sites.\nCommission electrolyser systems on customer sites, I/O checks, loop testing, functional and safety testing, and customer handover, working closely with the Service and Integration team.\nDiagnose and resolve control, instrumentation, and communication faults on live systems, on site and via remote access.\nMaintainservice and project documentation: maintenance plans, service reports, spare-part lists, records of control and safety logic changes, parameter backups, and customer handover material.\nAssess feasibility and lead implementation ofnew technologiessuch as MTP into existing control systems, working with the Automation and Process Engineering teams.\nDevelop and program HMI/SCADA interfaces using PLC/IPC and, where needed, web technologies (HTML5, JavaScript), and support the offer process with plant concepts, technical specifications, and stakeholder presentations.\nFeed field findings back into design so recurring issues get engineered out of future builds.\nMust-have qualifications:\nAt least 4 years in industrial automation, including 2 to 3 years of hands-on site and commissioning work.\nReadiness for periodic travel and on-site work across the Nordics, and a valid driving licence.\nStrong PLC/IPC programming. Our current projects are written in BeckhoffTwinCAT3, so TwinCATexperience will get you productive fastest. Solid Siemens TIA Portal or CODESYS experience also works, the ramp-up is just longer.\nAble to program in the standard IEC 61131-3 languages (ST, FBD, LD, SFC).\nSafety PLC programming, including testing and validation of PLC/IPC programs.\nHMI and SCADA programming.\nConfiguration and parameterisation of variable frequency drives, for example Siemens G120.\nExperience with industrial communication protocols such as PROFINET,EtherCAT, Modbus TCP, OPC UA, and Modbus RTU.\nAbility to write structured, maintainable code, using object-oriented or structured programming practice.\nAbility to read and interpret electrical and mechanical drawings and P&ID diagrams.\nEnglish ata high level, spoken and written.\nFinnish at a good working level, enough to run site work and customer handover in Finnish.\nNice-to-have qualifications:\nExposure to MTP (VDI/VDE/NAMUR 2658) or other emerging automation standards.\nWeb technologies for HMI development (HTML5, JavaScript).\nExperience in 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