Details:
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Location: Coventry West Midlands (County)
- Date: 5 days ago
Description:
Job Title: Senior Controls Engineer
Salary: £Excellent
Benefits: To be discussed at interview
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Coventry
Job Start date: ASAP
Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday – 08:30 – 17:00
We’re supporting our client, a Global Measurement Machine manufacturer based in Coventry, who are looking for a Senior Controls Engineer to join their growing team. The successful Controls Engineer will have experience of PLC software design, Electrical System Design & supporting Technicians.
The Senior Controls Engineer will focus on the design of Control Systems. You will work with our Controls Manager and alongside our Mechanical Design Engineers and Technicians on a daily basis as projects are taken from the initial concept through to testing and then delivery. This will encompass all activities throughout the design process.
Responsibilities for Senior Controls Engineer:
* Understanding and interpreting customer requirements
* The invention of novel ideas (concepts) to meet customer requirements
* Critical appraisal of yours and others designs within the design team to ensure robustness of design.
* Support of technicians in the assembly and testing of your designs.
* Windows software design in C++
* PLC software design in Siemens TIA Portal
* Electrical system design and layout using ePlan electrical software
* Work from documentation to create cables, build electrical units, build and test PC systems and occasionally wire cabinets.
About You:
* Experience in software design (PLC or Windows)
* Experience in electrical design
* HND/Degree in a relevant engineering discipline
* Experience of CE marking
* Experience of industrial networking (Profinet or other protocols)
* Have appropriate experience in the integration of software with control systems
* Experience of fault finding on electrical and electronic systems
* Good general engineering understanding and knowledge
* An aptitude for problem solving and the ability to develop solutions for complex problems.
* Effective communicator at both technical and project level to all stakeholders
* Excellent organisation skills and a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
* Excellent IT skills
Job Application:
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