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Robotics Engineer

Oxford
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Role: Robotics Engineer / Robotics Maintenance Technician
Salary: £45,000 to £50,000 plus overtime (paid at x1.5 & x2.0) and benefits (pension, life assurance, training & development opportunities)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8am till 5pm (3pm finish on Friday's)
Location: Commutable from Oxford, Swindon, Bicester, Banbury, Cheltenham, Aylesbury, Newbury, Didcot,Faringdon and surrounding areas

Company

We are currently recruiting a Robotics Engineer (Robotics Technician & Robotics Maintenance Engineer) to work in a busy factory environment for a production and manufacturing company. It would suit someone who is familiar with programming of robots, enjoys a variety of working and is keen to grow their skills in this growing company. Team fit is very important too, someone who is a team player with strong and clear communication skills is essential. The Engineering Team consists of 8 Engineers, these are made up of Maintenance Engineers and Robotics Engineers. .

If you're looking for a career move, or perhaps things have become complacent, boring and repetitive in your current role, or you’re not getting the rewards and recognition for your hard work, don't delay and apply now!

Responsibilities

· Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot industrial robot programs (e.g., ABB, Fanuc, Yaskawa), ensuring efficient and safe operation in production environments.
· Support general maintenance and installation tasks across all plant and machinery through fault finding, planned maintenance, shut downs and project work.
· Identify and execute automation improvement projects to reduce manual labor, improve product quality, and increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
· To work safely at all times and follow safe systems of work.
· To be actively involved in the TPM improvement process.

Requirements

· Experience of robotics, including programming - these could be ABB, Fanuc etc. within an industrial and/or manufacturing environment or similar
· Engineering background, holding a genuine passion and interest for engineering and learning.
· Any general maintenance of the following would be desirable (but not essential); 3 phase, motors, sensors, inverters, PLC fault finding, contactors, relays, servo drives, installations, general maintenance, VSD
· Friendly and adaptable working attitude, with the hunger to learn and progress
· Proactive working attitude and keen to get stuck in and turning your hands to a variety of work

If this role sounds of interest, please apply now and send your most up to date CV to Wesley at TechNichols Resourcing to be considered. Or call TechNichols Resourcing and speak with Wesley for further information.

We will endeavour to get back to all applicants but if you have not heard back within 5 working days unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful

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