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The Company
A market leading engineering company undergrowing a significant period of growth now require a Controls Engineer (Automated Test Equipment Engineer).
The Role
- The Engineer will work as part of a team developing software and hardware applications that support the needs of manufacturing.
- These will include in-house developer solutions for automated assembly, functional test and production monitoring.
- The Engineer will develop expert knowledge of the companys products and systems in order to best support these developments.
- To design, realise, document, and maintain robust, user friendly, software and hardware solutions that provide the required functionality and performance levels to support manufacturing processes.
- Liaise with project, manufacturing, test equipment, in-service personnel and other stakeholders to capture requirements.
- Generation of software and hardware requirements and specifications.
- Develop schedules and costs for test systems solutions.
- Design instrumentation implementations and generate LabVIEW software code in accordance with own or other engineers schedule requirements, utilizing standard revision control and review procedures.
- Propose and implement new/best practice production development techniques.
- Contribute to creation of future strategic targets.
- Assist with the training and guidance of apprentices, operators and others where appropriate.
- Undertake training and development activities where appropriate.
The Person
- Bachelor's degree or relevant experience in software engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a similar field.
- Previous employment within a Manufacturing environment.
- Experience of or exposure to automated production test equipment.
- Working knowledge of electronics equipment.
- Exposure to software engineering principles.
- Project management experience.
- Experience as Technical Lead.
- Lean Manufacturing techniques.
- LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA.
- Pneumatic systems and integration.
- Awareness of Industrial PLC programming.
- Willingness to learn LabVIEW to interface with 3rd party hardware, integrate with existing systems, acquire, and analyse data, database interaction and user interface design.
- A range of automation hardware.
- Electronics and instrumentation.
- Experienced in developing test software for automatic execution.
- Other programming languages.
- SQL database implementation.
- LabVIEW programming to CLD level or higher.
The Benefits
- You will be working for a well-established growing employer.
- An excellent salary.
- Hybrid working (3 days onsite 2 home)
- A company experiencing continued growth, expansion and investment.
- The company are fully compliant with the latest health and safety requirements for current safe working practices.
