Automation Engineer

An award-winning design and manufacturing business and world leader in packaging innovation and technology. For over a century they have provided innovative solutions to the biggest brands in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and personal care industries. A new opportunity for a multi-skilled Engineer able to design electrical circuits and follow a machine through to commissioning and installation.

Automation Engineer

£Excellent Basic. Bonus, Pension, Life Assurance

Home Counties

Ref: 24091

Automation Engineer - The Role:

• Carry out electrical engineering design and software development on machine

• Carry out design studies and reviews and preparation of specifications for special applications.

• Completion of the FAT document and ‘as-built’ electrical documentation.

• Carry out installation, commissioning, and troubling shooting visits at customer sites world-wide, working closely with Service and Aftercare teams. Travel will be required

• approximately 4-5 times annually, for a week at a time.

Technical Skills Required

• Siemens – Sinamics Motion Control

• AB – Compact Logix, Studio 5000

• AB – Kinetics Motion Control

• Experience in setup and implementation of vision systems.

Automation Engineer - The Person:

• Experience designing electrical control systems for special purpose machinery.

• Experience in compiling BOM’s and MRP uploads.

• Knowledge of safety equipment and standards

• Siemens / AB, PLC programming experience.

• Experienced with commissioning machines to FAT protocol.

• Experience in providing remote programming support.

• Proactive and solution focused.

• Organised with excellent attention to detail.

• Excellent communicator with ability to build relationships across all departments.

• Willingness to collaborate and support others.

• Dependable and able to prioritise workload across multiple projects.

• Flexible and able to travel globally.

• Ambition to develop and succeed.

Located in Home Counties, this role would be commutable from Milton Keynes, Luton, Bedford areas.

For further information call Sharon Hill 

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