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Senior Project Automation & Control Engineer

More Years

Nottingham
On-site
GBP 40,000 - 60,000
Yesterday
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Lead Automation Developer

The Scottish Government

City of Edinburgh
On-site
GBP 60,000 - 80,000
2 days ago
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Actemium Automation Peterborough - Project Manager

VINCI

Peterborough
On-site
GBP 50,000 - 70,000
Yesterday
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Automation Delivery Manager

Samworth Brothers

Leicester
On-site
GBP 100,000 - 125,000
Yesterday
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Lead Quality Engineer - Automation & AI

Hastings Direct

Melton Mowbray
Hybrid
GBP 60,000 - 80,000
Yesterday
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Lead Quality Engineer - Automation & AI

Hastings Direct

Bexhill-on-Sea
Hybrid
GBP 60,000 - 80,000
Yesterday
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Lead Quality Engineer - Automation & AI

Hastings Direct

Greater London
Hybrid
GBP 60,000 - 80,000
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Senior Project Manager - Advanced Automation

Lord Search & Selection

Ducklington
Hybrid
GBP 70,000 - 90,000
Yesterday
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Managing Consultant - Automation

Capgemini

Greater London
Hybrid
GBP 60,000 - 100,000
Yesterday
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Automation Engineer - Contract

Ocho People

Belfast
Hybrid
GBP 80,000 - 100,000
2 days ago
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Lead Quality Engineer - Automation & AI

Hastings Insurance Services Limited

Bexhill-on-Sea
Hybrid
GBP 80,000 - 100,000
Yesterday
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QA/UAT Engineer

Dns Info Ltd

Basildon
On-site
GBP 50,000 - 70,000
Yesterday
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Senior Marketing Executive

Adelphi Automation

Manchester
On-site
GBP 40,000 - 45,000
Yesterday
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Marketing Automation and Campaign Specialist

BMS Engineering Recruitment

Kings Langley
Hybrid
GBP 40,000 - 50,000
Yesterday
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Business Intelligence and Automation Lead

Different Technologies Pty Ltd.

Birmingham
On-site
GBP 45,000 - 60,000
Yesterday
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Consultant (Automation Engineer) - Power Platform

Roboyo

United Kingdom
Hybrid
GBP 80,000 - 100,000
Yesterday
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AI & Automation Transformation Lead

InfinityQuest Limited

Midsomer Norton
On-site
GBP 90,000 - 120,000
Yesterday
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Automation Engineer

Myton Food Group

England
On-site
GBP 40,000 - 55,000
Yesterday
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Junior QA Engineer (Remote)

Human-CR, S.L

Little London
Remote
GBP 25,000 - 30,000
Yesterday
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DevSecOps lead at N Consulting Ltd

N Consulting Ltd

Greater London
On-site
GBP 80,000 - 120,000
Yesterday
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COS Global CRM Lifecycle & Automation Specialist

COS

Greater London
Hybrid
GBP 45,000 - 60,000
Yesterday
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Contract Test Automation Engineer (QA)

Ocho People

Belfast
Hybrid
GBP 80,000 - 100,000
2 days ago
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Global CRM Lifecycle & Automation Specialist

H&M

Greater London
Hybrid
GBP 40,000 - 55,000
Yesterday
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Automation Engineer

Michael Page

Devon and Torbay
On-site
GBP 50,000
Yesterday
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Network Automation Strategy lead

BT Group

Manchester
Hybrid
GBP 40,000 - 60,000
Yesterday
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Senior Project Automation & Control Engineer
More Years
Nottingham
On-site
GBP 40,000 - 60,000
Full time
Yesterday
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Job summary

A fast-scaling pet food company in Nottingham seeks an experienced Automation Engineer to lead the design and implementation of their next-generation automation systems. This role involves hands-on engineering, creating robust solutions, and collaborating with multiple teams. The ideal candidate will have strong automation experience, mechanical skills, and the ability to provide innovative solutions. The company offers extensive benefits including health cover, learning budgets, and team events.

Benefits

Extensive health care cover
Annual learning and development budget
Volunteer day per year
Quarterly team events
Exclusive discounts on products
Casual dress
Ability to sell unused holiday

Qualifications

  • Strong hands-on automation and controls engineering experience.
  • Ability to design and build full systems end-to-end.
  • Comfortable working in fast-paced FMCG or manufacturing environments.

Responsibilities

  • Turn verbal concepts into engineered automation solutions.
  • Design mechanical components and specify sensors.
  • Build and wire control panels including PLCs and instrumentation.

Skills

Hands-on automation experience
PLC and HMI programming
Mechanical fabrication skills
Problem-solving mindset
Strong communication skills

Tools

Siemens PLC
Schneider PLC
Allen-Bradley PLC
Job description

Join Our Pack🐶🍽️

From a bold idea to revolutionising dog food,Yearshas grown into a fast-scaling business dedicated to helping dogs live longer, healthier lives.

In just 3 years, we’ve built a great start up business, servingthousands of happy customers, all while striving to achieve our mission.

Our goal? To give dog owners abetter, fresher, and healthierway to feed their pets. We providehuman cut, personalised mealsdesigned to support each dog’s unique needs, delivered straight to their door - no preservatives, no compromises, just real nutrition.

You can find our customers across theUK, with future ambitions toscale internationallyand continue transforming how people care for their dogs.

Your Mission

Years is entering a new phase of automation — where ideas turn into machines, and engineering vision becomes production reality. This role is built for a rare type of engineer: a hands‑on doer who can take a verbal idea, sketch it, design it, spec it, fabricate it, wire it, program it, and commission it into a fully functioning automation system.

You’ll be the driving force behind Years’ next‑generation automation systems. From inline washers to precision dosing rigs, from control panels to sensor networks, you will architect and physically build smart automation that increases uptime, reduces operator load, and scales our production capability.

1. Team Purpose & Challenges

The Engineering team exists to build the automation and production technology that enables Years to scale reliably, safely, and efficiently. As we move from startup to high‑volume manufacturing, the team’s mission is to create robust, repeatable systems that increase throughput and reduce operator dependency. The key challenge is speed: we must design, fabricate, and deploy new automation faster than traditional suppliers can, while ensuring food‑safe engineering, uptime, and long‑term maintainability.

2. Strategic Focus & Priorities

The immediate priority is delivering practical, working automation that solves real production problems — from inline washers and conveyors to jigs, controls, dosing rigs, and sensor‑driven systems. Longer‑term, the focus shifts to standardising our automation architecture, improving line reliability, and building modular systems that scale with our growth. The role balances rapid hands‑on execution with strategic input into the automation roadmap, component standards, and future investment decisions.

3. Reporting & Leadership

This role reports to the Engineering Manager with a dotted line into R&D director and will become a key technical authority within the team. While primarily hands‑on, it involves guiding best practices in automation, influencing design decisions, and supporting junior members when needed.

4. Collaboration

You’ll work closely with Production, Maintenance, Technical/QA, NPD and Operations to understand challenges, test ideas, and deploy new systems into the live environment. Collaboration will range from scoping functional requirements, integrating automation with existing kit, supporting operator training, and coordinating line trials — ensuring every system you build is practical, safe, and fit for the realities of daily production.

5. Hands-On vs. Strategic Balance

This is a heavily execution-focused role, with the majority of time spent designing, fabricating, wiring, programming, and commissioning automation. Strategic input is still important — especially in selecting platforms, shaping standards, and advising on long‑term scalability — but the core expectation is delivery: taking ideas, engineering them, and physically making them real.

Key Responsibilities

  • Turn verbal concepts into engineered automation solutions (sketch → design → build → commission)
  • Design mechanical components including frames, brackets, guards, housings, jigs and assemblies
  • Specify sensors, actuators, pneumatics, hydraulics, control hardware, safety devices and fabrication requirements
  • Fabricate components using welding, cutting, bending and machining where required
  • Build and wire control panels including PLCs, VFDs, safety circuits and instrumentation
  • Program PLCs and HMIs to deliver reliable, safe and user-friendly automation sequences
  • Develop functional specifications, control philosophy and documentation for new systems
  • Prototype automation ideas quickly and iterate in live production environments
  • Commission new systems end-to-end including testing, validation and operator handover
  • Support wider engineering projects, installations and continuous improvement activity
  • Maintain compliance with food safety, hygiene, electrical and mechanical safety requirements

What You’ll Bring

  • Strong hands‑on automation and controls engineering experience
  • Ability to design and build full systems end‑to‑end — mechanical, electrical and control
  • PLC and HMI programming capability (Siemens, Schneider, Allen‑Bradley or similar)
  • Mechanical fabrication skills including welding, cutting, bending and assembly
  • Competence in LV electrical work, panel building and safe isolation
  • Experience selecting sensors, actuators, pneumatics and instrumentation
  • Ability to turn incomplete ideas into fully engineered working solutions
  • Practical problem‑solving mindset with fast prototyping ability
  • Comfortable working in fast‑paced FMCG or manufacturing environments
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
  • Ownership mentality — able to deliver projects independently from concept to commissioning
What’s In It For You? Years Benefits
  • Extensive health care cover including full cancer coverage and a choice of hospitals or consultants (AXA top package)
  • Annual £250.00 Learning & Development budget for courses, books or other self‑learn activities
  • Annual £100.00 Wellbeing budget
  • Up to 2 weeks working abroad per year (selected roles)
  • Monthly recognition through our Yappa of The Month programme
  • 1 Volunteer day per year – dog themed or not: it’s your choice!
  • Subsidised employee groups – from five a side to padel there’s loads to get involved in or the chance to start up your own group
  • Quarterly subsidised team events from Axe throwing, crazy golf to cocktail making
  • Exclusive discounts on Years and Years treats for yourself and friends/family
  • Lunch & Learn programme – from dog first aid to financial savviness we’ve got sessions planned to cover all kinds of topics
  • Casual dress
  • Your birthday off or different day if it falls on a non‑working day
  • Ability to sell any unused holiday back to Years at the end of the Holiday Year (maximum 1 working week)
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* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.

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