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Software Systems Engineer
Rugeley - hybrid working available (3 days a week in the office)
Responsibilities
- Establish detailed knowledge of customer automation footprints, and their ongoing needs for investment and support
- Design, validate and present automation solutions for greenfield and upgrade scenarios
- Effectively communicate different aspects of automation value propositions to a mix of customer roles, including non-technical people
- Evangelise our key partners' (GE Digital, Emerson Machine Control) products to customer technical teams and influencers
- Support sales and marketing efforts by building and delivering demonstration solutions for key customers and markets
- Provide support and consultative services to systems integration partners that work with Emerson and GE technologies
- Help Novotek sales colleagues identify and qualify automation product opportunities in their customer and prospect base.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in science, engineering, technology or related discipline or equivalent industrial experience such as a minimum of five (5) years' experience within a hands-on automation role.
- Substantial hands-on experience with PLC or other automation controllers, including HMI, within industry. This should include all aspects from customer requirements gathering, initial system design, implementation, testing, commissioning through to on-going support. Ideally this should include exposure to SCADA systems.
- Ideal candidates will have experience working with GE (now Emerson) PACSystems RX3i, Series 90 or other platforms, and iFIX or CIMPLICITY SCADA.
- The ability to program in at least one IEC 1131 language
- Practical exposure to OPC communications, ideally OPC UA
- Exposure to relevant automation standards such as ISA 95, ISA 101 (HMI), ISA 18.2 (Alarm Management), ISA 62443 (Security) and IEC 1131.
- Experience of any of the following would be beneficial:
- Machine safety
- Device level networks
- Motion control solutions
- High availability architectures
