Automation Support Engineer
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 - 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
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