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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Automation Engineer to join their dynamic engineering team. In this field-based role, you will contribute to the automation agenda, ensuring systems are operational and compliant while managing large-scale projects. This exciting opportunity allows you to develop your skills in automation, control, and instrumentation across modern production sites. With a focus on continuous improvement and stakeholder engagement, you will play a crucial role in enhancing manufacturing excellence within a fast-paced environment. If you have a strong background in engineering and a desire to innovate, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

  • University degree or similar qualification in Engineering or related field.
  • 10+ years of practical experience in food manufacturing or FMCG.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure plant automation systems are available and safeguarded.
  • Participate in achieving internal customer satisfaction and compliance.
  • Manage capital projects in a food manufacturing environment.

Skills

Problem solving

Continuous Improvement (CI)

Project Engineering

Maintenance Engineering

Quality Management Systems

Budgeting and Forecasting

Procurement processes

Education

University degree in Engineering

Craft apprenticeship with 10+ years experience

Tools

Project management tools

Job description

Job Description

Automation Engineer

Pontefract/Hellaby based (UK wide remit)

Field based role

As our Automation Engineer, what will you be doing?

  1. Contributing to the achievement of overall company objectives by ensuring the plant automation systems are available for use when required and have relevant safeguards in place, back up, training material and change management processes for example.
  2. Fully participating as a member of the Central Engineering Team in achievement of internal customer satisfaction, Health and Safety, compliance, technical standards, capital budgets, performance targets and manufacturing excellence.
  3. Key stakeholder of capital projects within a food manufacturing environment from concept to full handover. Can do this utilising the principles of Intersnack Work Systems and the Initiative Management Pillar.
  4. Working within a dynamic and supportive engineering team, this role will provide exciting opportunities for somebody with a huge passion for automation to develop their career whilst working across two modern KP sites.
  5. This dynamic career move will enable you to deploy and build your skills in all areas of automation, control, and instrumentation. In this role, you will develop the automation agenda, from implementing continuous improvement initiatives through to managing / installing large scale automation projects.

We’d love to hear from you if you can evidence the following knowledge, skills and experience:

  1. University degree or similar qualification in Engineering or similar bias. This could be covered by a craft apprenticeship and 10 plus years of practical experience.
  2. Experience of working within food manufacturing / production environment and/or FMCG.
  3. Problem solving CI experience.
  4. Experience of working within Project and Maintenance Engineering.
  5. Project Engineering and Management experience.
  6. Working with Quality Management Systems.
  7. Understanding of Project management tools.
  8. Cost Centre Management, Budgeting and Forecasting.
  9. Capital Expenditure process awareness.
  10. Procurement processes.
  11. Detailed knowledge of legislative requirements and responsibilities relating to Engineering and Food Safety.
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