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Control Engineer at Automation Experts Ltd in Mansfield Woodhouse NG19
Job Description
Reference: 25797
Controls Engineer
£45 - 50k + Monthly Bonus + 5% Pension (Salary Sacrifice)
Subsidised Restaurant
Earn c£5k+ with Bonus
37.5 hour week - compressed hours - Overtime not needed
No travel - site based
East Midlands
Ref: 25797
Controls Engineer skilled with Siemens PLC & motion control systems now sought for a growing engineering team within a global organisation, developing bespoke, precision machinery.
You’ll have the chance to influence automation strategy, contribute to technical decisions from the design stage and broaden your knowledge across other engineering disciplines.
Controls Engineer - The Role:
- Design, develop and commission Siemens PLC software from scratch.
- Develop HMI applications
- Create and develop motion control routines
- Develop and maintain machine-level control systems, ensuring software is fully tested and documented.
- Support the development and maintenance of SCADA systems, including Ignition and WinCC.
- Commission machinery in-house within the workshop before deployment, with no requirement for customer-site travel.
- Work alongside electrical, mechanical and fluid engineering teams, contributing to technical decisions at the design stage.
- Use EPLAN electrical drawings and schematics to understand and support control system development.
Controls Engineer - The Person:
- Proven experience designing, developing and commissioning PLC software from scratch - ideally you will be experienced with Siemens
- Essential: Strong motion control experience
- Experience developing HMI applications
- Strong understanding of industrial networking and machine-level communications.
- Good understanding of electrical fundamentals and the ability to read and interpret electrical schematics.
- Experience with robotics development would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of SCADA development and maintenance, ideally using Ignition and/or WinCC, including database experience, would be beneficial.
What's on Offer?
- Opportunity to support the automation strategy of a global engineering group.
- Involvement in bespoke, precision machinery development.
- Input into technical decisions from the early design stages.
- Opportunity to broaden your skills across electrical, mechanical and fluid engineering.
- Compressed working arrangement.
- Workshop-based commissioning with no requirement for customer-site travel or working away.
Located in East Midlands, this role would be commutable from Chesterfield, Sheffield, Mansfield, Nottingham, Newark-on-Trent, Worksop and Lincoln.
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For further information call Sarah Clarke.
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