Engineer - Controls Engineering

ALS Mechatronic is trusted globally by start-ups through to multinational powerhouses – ranging from dairies to pharmaceutical companies to help improve their efficiency and production capabilities with our state of the art, bespoke manufacturing machinery, and control systems. We typically automate end-of-line, repeatable labour-intensive processes at speed, by designing and building novel machinery, integrating robotics and vision inspection. We’re expanding our operations and our solutions offerings as a result of increased customer demand and looking to appoint an experienced controls engineer. You’ll have the opportunity to bring our customers’ automation aspirations to life, working across a variety of industry sectors and on some ground-breaking projects. A lot of what we do is typically bespoke to our customers and to date there’s not been an automation challenge we’ve not been able to support or walked away from. This role comes with great career development opportunities for the right candidate! Working as part of a closely-knit team, you will be required to work both in-house and on customers’ sites – mainly around the UK and Ireland but you should expect worldwide travel on occasion. It is rare that you will be expected to stay over a weekend, but this can happen, especially on overseas projects. You will be instrumental in the design / installation / service and manufacture of our bespoke control systems and machinery delivering the programming capabilities for single control panels but more often designing from scratch, intricate controls systems as part of larger / complete turnkey automation solutions working in close collaboration with our teams of mechanical and electrical design engineers. Programming of PLC / Touch Screen / Network / SCADA On site installation and commissioning Project management Ownership of certain customers projects from conception, design, build, customer delight! Training and mentoring other team members in control systems Ensuring all projects are delivered to the highest possible standards and in a timely fashion Industrial Control Systems PLC programming (Allen Bradley / Siemens essential) Industrial networks (EtherNET, ProfiNET) Experience of programming robotics EPLAN electrical design Plastics processing machinery Packaging systems Self-starter with the maturity to be able to work with minimal supervision but equally, knows when support is needed Fluent in English (second language is a plus) Willingness to travel/work away from home on a regular basis (majority UK, but also abroad) – approx. Full UK driving licence (with 3 penalty points or less) Good rate of pay in line with experience ~ Opportunity to earn spot bonuses/awards for outstanding contributions ~ Contributory Pension Scheme (after probationary period) ~21 days holiday per annum plus statutory holidays ~ Additional holiday for long service ~ Private Health Insurance for you, your partner and children (after probationary period) ~ Cycle to work scheme (after probationary period) ~ Normal Hours: Monday-Thursday 08.Note there may be occasional travel with longer hours) Our location is fairly rural and not served by public transport, so own means of transport is essential. ALS Mechatronic welcome applications from all sections of the community irrespective of race, colour, gender, sexuality, age or disability.