PLC Control Engineer

Lancaster
1 week ago
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Are you an electrically biased maintenance engineer who has experience with PLC and robotics? Want to develop further with your career in this area?

We are looking for a controls engineer to work in this highly automated paper mill in Lancaster, working Monday - Friday days, you will be the go to expert onsite for everything controls lead. Ideally you will have had experience working with PLC programming and software interrogation, with hands-on experience in Siemens and Rockwell systems, we want to hear from you! The ideal candidate will be proactive in troubleshooting, committed to planned maintenance, and eager to work with state-of-the-art machinery. You will need to have the ability to work in the UK without any visa restrictions.

Roles and responsibilities of a Controls engineer:

Provide hands-on technical support for instrumentation and electrical control applications 

Responsible for keeping programs backed-up and updating documentation, schematics and drawings 

Analyse and implement required upgrades or projects in relation to the instrumentation and electrical control applications 

Support the daily activities of the maintenance teams and assist in shut-downs, investment projects 

Program monitor and modify PLC and DCS control logic 

Troubleshoot PLC, DCS and relay control systems 

Participate in the emergency on-call roster 

Foster safe working principles throughout the plant. Highlight concerns or practices that contravene safety 

Qualifications or skills required to be successful in this Controls engineers role:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field

18th Edition is preferred

Ability to read advanced electrical drawings.

PLC experience including Siemens S5 and Rockwell knowledge.

Ability to work on HMI’s, developing modifying and fault finding.

Ability to work with robots, teaching and programming.

The benefits of an automation engineer:

Working Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM till 5:30 PM

Staff shop 

Basic salary of £50,000 

20 days holiday plus bank holidays

Personal growth

company pension, death in service benefit

If you feel this plc engineers role is right for you please Contact Sarah Armstrong at Maintech Recruitment or click apply.

Connect with me on LinkedIn: Sarah Armstrong

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