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:

1. Up to £54,000 per annum (DOE)
2. Monday to Friday, Days role
3. Permanent position
4. 276 hours holidays (inclusive of bank holidays)
5. Annual bonus of up to 10%
6. Benefits package including life assurance and health care cover
7. Pension matched up to 8%

The Role - Automation Support Engineer:

1. Develop systems and people to improve site automation performance
2. Reactive support for site automation issues within a clear escalation
3. Ownership of minor (site managed) automation Capex projects through the full project life cycle
4. Support project delivery of other site projects with automation elements
5. Facilitating site activities to centrally delivered Capex projects
6. Maintain and monitor use of automation and electrical system software and documentation version control systems
7. Liaise with the Automation Development team providing a site perspective to the ongoing development of the group automation and electrical standards
8. Ensure compliance with group electrical and automation standards of site-delivered projects and general improvement works
9. Responsible for obsolescence management within the roadmap
10. Liaison with the Automation Development Team to ensure site criticality is a key element of the group level
11. Ownership of the site level Obsolescence and Improvements Plan focusing on the next level of controls (VSDs, servo drives, instrumentation etc.)
12. Evaluate performance data to feed into automation OE activity to deliver improvements in efficiency and operability within production
13. Ownership of site panel risk assessment register, periodic health checks and remedial/improvement actions
14. Specialist automation support to site improvement initiatives
15. 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:

1. Strong PLC experience, preferably Allen Bradley - ESSENTIAL
2. Strong electrical skills - ESSENTIAL
3. Previous experience in a similar Automation role
4. Previous FMCG experience - BENEFICIAL
5. Must be IT literate

Commutable From:

Studley, Worcester, Redditch, Bromsgrove, Great Malvern, Solihull, Birmingham, Kidderminster

This vacancy is being advertised on behalf of Recruit4staff (Wrexham) who are operating as a recruitment agency, agent, agencies, employment agency or employment business.