Automation Engineer

Wychavon

£50,000 - £54,000

Permanent

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Recruit4staff is proud to be representing their client, a leading company in their search for an Automation Support Engineer to work in their leading facility in Droitwich.

For the successful Automation Support Engineer our client is offering:
  • Up to £54,000 per annum (DOE) 
  • Monday to Friday, Days role
  • Permanent position
  • 276 hours holidays (inclusive of bank holidays) 
  • Annual bonus of up to 10% 
  • Benefits package including life assurance and health care cover
  • Pension matched up to 8% 
The Role - Automation Support Engineer:
  • Develop systems and people to improve site automation performance
  • Reactive support for site automation issues within a clear escalation
  • Ownership of minor (site managed) automation Capex projects through the full project life cycle
  • Support project delivery of other site projects with automation elements
  • Facilitating site activities to centrally delivered Capex projects
  • Maintain and monitor use of automation and electrical system software and documentation version control systems.
  • Liaise with the Automation Development team providing a site perspective to the ongoing development of the group automation and electrical standards
  • Ensure compliance with group electrical and automation standards of site-delivered projects and general improvement works
  • Responsible for obsolescence management within the roadmap.  
  • Liaison with the Automation Development Team to ensure site criticality is  a key element of the group level  
  • Ownership of the site level Obsolescence and Improvements Plan focusing on the next level of controls (VSDs, servo drives, instrumentation etc.)
  • Evaluate performance data to feed into automation OE activity to deliver improvements inefficiency and operability within production
  • Ownership of site panel risk assessment register, periodic health checks and remedial/improvement actions
  • Specialist automation support to site improvement initiatives
  • Utilise specialist skills and systems access to validate and analyse site data, for example to support quality improvement activities
What our client is looking for in an Automation Support Engineer:
  • Strong PLC experience, preferably Allen Bradley or Siemens - ESSENTIAL 
  • Strong electrical skills  - ESSENTIAL 
  • Previous experience in a similar Automation role  
  • Previous FMCG experience - BENEFICIAL 
  • Must be IT literate 
Alternative job titles:
Automation Engineer, Support Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Engineer 

Commutable From:
Studley, Worcester, Redditch, Bromsgrove, Great Malvern, Solihull, Birmingham, Kidderminster 

For further information about this and other positions please apply now

This vacancy is being advertised on behalf of Recruit4staff (Wrexham) who are operating as a recruitment agency, agent, agencies, employment agency or employment business
Job Reference: opp-20264
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