PLC Engineer

What are your responsibilities:

• Develop, implement and support hardware/software solutions for Modernisation and Upgrade projects;
• Provide a complete controls design solution for a material handling project including electrical design, software design and commissioning
• Ensuring the solution meets the requirements of the project and carried out within cost and time scale constraints;
• Maintain the image as a top quality, professional company, by adopting an honest, professional and attentive approach;
• Understand the constraints of working on live sites and provide solutions that minimise the disruptions to client operations whilst working within the project scope;
• Provide support, attend to system faults and perform investigation and fault rectification where necessary;
• Perform site supervisory duties on controls projects when required;
• Support the sales team with controls costings and design concepts and recommending spare parts.

For the position as PLC Engineer we are looking for someone with the following qualifications;

• You have a bachelor or master degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline;
• You have hands-on experience working in a similar role, including controls design and commissioning within an automation-based industry, ideally within the automated warehouse industry;
• You have an advanced understanding of PLCs: Siemens S7 and TIA Portal
• You have an advanced understanding of fieldbus systems and I/O equipment, e.g., Profibus, Profinet, ASi, TCP/IP;
• You have an advanced understanding of other controls automation related equipment, e.g. Bar code scanners, HMIs, Variable frequency drives;
• You have an understanding of relevant standards governing the controls automation industry;
• You have knowledge of the Machinery Directive and the measures needed for compliance.