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Automation Engineer - Motorsport and Advanced Technology - Northamptonshire

This amazing long-term contract role for an Automation Engineer is a unique opportunity to showcase your expertise and skills with a world leading motorsport/F1 business in Northamptonshire.

This role will be working in a multi-faceted Automation team, alongside incredibly talented and passionate people.

You’ll be responsible for the design, development, and validation of both new and existing automation programs to ensure they’re robust in production. This includes ensuring that our meticulously engineered power units are manufactured and assembled with precision, without fault, and with great repeatability, upholding the highest quality standards. You’ll also have the opportunity to specify the right technology needed for any task, and ensure we stay abreast of emerging technologies.

You’ll be working around the internal combustion engine, electric machines, and batteries.

This will be working as a Contractor initially set at 12 months. Monday to Friday 8am – 5pm.

In the relentless pursuit for more Power Unit performance and reliability on the track, we design and develop revolutionary manufacturing processes that simply cannot be bought off-the-shelf. This gives us an edge in competition, and in turn, this gives a group of Automation Engineers an incredible opportunity to design, build, and commission special purpose machines from the ground up, from an initial scribble in the back of notebook, to a fully-fledged production machine.

The role is for an expert in Industrial Automation programming, ideally specialising in Beckhoff TwinCAT and KUKA robotics. Proficiency in these systems is essential for optimising automation processes and ensuring robust and sophisticated robotic applications. If you have the skills to leverage the full potential of Beckhoff TwinCAT and KUKA robots, it would be great to consider you for this role.

Additional requirements include:

  • Curious, tenacious, and driven with a hunger to work in a fast-paced environment.

  • BEng or above in some form of relevant degree.

  • A strong academic background to take a scientific and systematic approach to software programming.

  • Excellent communication skills.

  • Self-motivated, adaptable, and creative.

  • Excellent understanding of automation and manufacturing processes.

  • The courage to challenge and desire to be challenged, to expand your technical knowledge and skills.

    What you will get:

  • Outstanding contract rate of pay

  • Opportunity to join a multiple F1 championship winning engineering business with state of the art facilities including onsite subsidised restaurant, gym and parking

  • Easy access to site

    Applications:

    Please apply with updated CV and details of current rate/salary and notice period. If you are shortlisted, you will be contacted prior to submission. However please contact Michael Sorfleet by email if you have any questions.

    Please note, these positions CANNOT support sponsorship

    If this role is not for you, but you know some who may be interested, please forward this email on to them. We do offer a referral scheme.

    Arden White is an equal opportunities employer. If you have any specific requirements or require assistance or reasonable adjustments to be made for you during the selection process due to disability or long-term health condition, we will do our best to assist you

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