PLC Controls Engineer

PLC Controls Engineer – South Wales – Permanent
Up to £45kpa plus overtime and benefits.

Our company is a leader in the design, manufacture and installation of Special Purpose Machinery for plants across the UK. They now require 2 PLC Controls/Commissioning Design Engineers to be based at their customer site in South Wales.

Successful engineers will be working on numerous and varied projects on bespoke machine and equipment controlled by numerous software platforms such as Siemens, Allen Bradley, Schneider and Omron.

Projects can range from simple modifications to existing machines to complete assembly facilities for a variety of different customers, sites and production assembly and test lines.

Key Responsibilities
+ Liaison with Mechanical Design to understand the design concept.
+ Liaison with Project Engineering to appreciate the customer requirements.
+ Interpret standard design documents (Controls Philosophy, Controls Functions Listing/Cycle Timing Diagram, Project Specifications) to allow software design.

+ Basic understanding of mechanical/pneumatic and hydraulic systems.
+ Ability to design bespoke software for machine and system control.
+ Fault finding within integrated systems during build and test.
+ Solo or team based commissioning
+ Preparation and execution of internal acceptance and inspection sign-off documentation.
+ Joint leadership of Customer Acceptance activities.
+ Leadership of Customer Acceptance activities on site.
+ On site customer support activities
+ Input to quotation and cost estimate activities

Skills Requirement

+ Minimum HNC with proven experience in software and commissioning of Powertrain Automotive Special Purpose Machinery and associated equipment.
+ Experience of Siemens, Group Schneider, Rockwell Allen Bradley software platforms and other PLC systems.
+ Experience of programming and interfacing to auxiliary equipment including:
+ Good understanding of mechanics.

+ Experience of Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc.
+ Also knowledge of CAD packages (Eplan AutoCad) an advantage but not essential.
+ Good communicator at all levels.
+ To work safely within a potentially hazardous environments.