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You might be a Design Engineer with a combination of PLC control systems and machine safety, functional safety knowledge, and using your safety regulations experience to make factory automation and robotic, conveyor, packaging or process machinery safer, more compliant. You're looking for a company that produces high quality PLC, Electrical, Factory Automation systems, and rightly sees safety as an essential to every part of their output. They've created a specialist role to use your knowledge.
My customers want to a PLC Control or Electrical Design Engineer who understands aspects such as functional safety, safety requirement specifications (SRS), understands electrical design - what it takes to make a machine safer, sensors, machinery guarding, e-stops, PLC control, shutdowns. Someone who can review the designs, checking that they comply with safety requirements, adding to project documentation, adding their Functional Safety input to make sure that every project goes out right first time.
TUV, CMSE, FSeng, training, functional safety, safety design experience- one of these would be useful.
If you are an Electrical Design Engineer or PLC Automated Machinery Designer who sees the importance of machinery safety, but feels awkward raising the issue in your present job, come to this company, where it's important and you'll add something.
Salary: You'll get a competitive basic salary in the £50K's, a performance bonus, flexible working. a good range of health, holiday and pension benefits, and development to keep your skills current and sharp.
Interested? Then send a copy of your CV to Mark Burnard of Hartland Recruitment for more details.
Hartland Recruitment - a specialist technical recruitment agency, finding Engineers for the UK's Industrial Automation, Control Systems and Machinery Manufacturers since 1990

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