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Control Systems Engineer

Leicester
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Design / PLC programming for various Automation control systems projects -- materials handling, conveyor systems, sortation conveyor, warehouse automation projects.
Midlands Remote / Hybrid Location: Working from home and the office and commissioning on UK only sites. Living in the Midlands of England from Oxfordshire, Birmingham, across to Cambridgeshire, northwards to South Yorkshire and southwards to Hertfordshire -- central England all OK.
Designing factory automation and warehouse automation systems used by leading UK blue chip customers, this award-winning company is set to grow, and needs to add to its Automation Design team. Ideally, your experience would include most of the following:

  • Siemens S7 PLC programming, so Step 7 TIA Portal software
  • Some Rockwell Automation PLC programming (Allen Bradley) would be useful
  • AutoCAD familiarity would be good
  • Conveyor systems project experience or materials handling, warehouse control systems, storage retrieval projects always a useful background here-- robotic handling or factory automation.
    Interested? Then send a copy of your CV to Mark Burnard at Hartland Recruitment ASAP.
    Hartland Recruitment- finding Engineers for UK Automation, Control Systems and Machinery manufacturers since 1990

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