Controls Engineer

Controls Engineer (Manufacturing)

Outline:
This is fantastic opportunity for someone to work with an international company within the medical and healthcare market. A highly respected company who manufacture a great range of products, looking for an enthusiastic person to join the Engineering Team, bringing across your existing experience and expertise to this great organisation.

The Company:

• A well-established, very friendly, and highly regarded business!
  
  
• Great range of products, found within hospital across the world.
  
  
• Known for investing in staff training and development across all areas of the business.
  
  The Role:
  
  
• This role is based at the company site near Goole in the East Riding of Yorkshire area, working for a company that specialise in the manufacturing of products for the general and specialist healthcare markets.
  
  
• Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, you will diagnose complex machine faults and control system errors promptly to minimise machine downtime, applying permanent countermeasures to prevent reoccurrence.
  
  
• It is also important that you develop and maintain a working knowledge of the manufacturing process and operating sequences of the regulated business.
  
  
• You will develop and implement projects to drive improvement in manufacturing availability, product quality, employee safety and process efficiency.
  
  
• In this role you will coach and develop the other maintenance engineering team members’ knowledge of machine control and automation systems.
  
  
• You will record and update electrical system documentation following any changes, along with investigating any plant failures (FMEA) and writing reports to document your finding.
  
  
• In this position you will also provide second level support to shift teams in reactive maintenance situations
  
  
• It is also important to complete Obsolescence reviews and create plans to minimize risk.
  
  
• At all times you’ll ensure all activities are carried out in accordance with appropriate internal and external Health, Safety & Environmental requirements.
  
  
• Full initial training will be provided with ongoing career development.
  
  Package:
  
  
• Basic up to £65k
  
  
• Pension Scheme
  
  
• Life Assurance
  
  
• Holidays: 25 days plus 8 bank holiday (service days after each 5 years of service)
  
  
• Private Medical Insurance
  
  
• Other staff benefits
  
  The Ideal Person:
  
  
• This role is ideally suited to someone with experience of working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, on a range of different equipment, understanding and experience of PLC fault finding.
  
  
• You will have a HNC in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, and BS7671 17th Edition (Apprentice trained to C&G 2391 or equivalent would be advantageous).
  
  
• You will also need experience of diagnostics and program writing to source code level with equipment such as: Siemens S5/7, Telemecanique PL7, Allen Bradley, Omron
  
  
• Fault Finding and experience of writing programmes for 6 axis robotic handling equipment is desired.
  
  
• A good knowledge of the requirements for machine safety control systems according to BS EN ISO (phone number removed) is needed in this role.
  
  
• You will also need experience of designing and modifying electrical control circuits and systems whilst complying with legislative requirements and best practice.
  
  
• Any knowledge of inverter and servo drive systems, parameterisation and tuning would be an advantage.
  
  
• It’s important that you have experience of delivering projects on-time and to budget, and have strong people management and relationship building skills.
  
  
• You need good organisational and decision making skills, along with strong verbal and written communications skills, and the desire to share learnings with others.
  
  
• It’s essential that you are willing to learn new information and continually develop your person skills, along with a strong understanding of IT, Microsoft Office packages, and the use of reporting systems is vital.
  
  
• Applications must live in a reasonable commuting distance of site near Goole, or be willing to relocate (no relocation package available and have the right to work in the UK is essential – no sponsorship available (sorry).
  
  If the above is of interest to you and you fit with the Ideal Person section, then please get in touch with us. We can the set-up an initial chat with one of our friendly team