Controls Principal Engineer

We’re excited to be hiring a Controls Principal Hardware Engineer, a key role focused on designing and delivering compliant, high-quality electrical systems that drive our innovative automated solutions. In this role, you’ll be responsible for designing and maintaining the most complex systems that integrate the control hardware and software for the project sites. You will lead on complex materials specifications, schematic drawings, and recommendations for ideas related to productivity improvement, cost reduction and improvement in customer satisfaction. This is a principal engineering role that pre-empts potential problems and provides effective solutions in reaction to the application of concepts, techniques, knowledge, or processes. Displaying original thinking in applying principles, theories, and concepts to a wide range of problems.

Tasks and Qualifications:

• Specific Responsibilities - Electrical Design: Interpret design input information to produce control system designs. Ensure systems designed and supplied are CE Compliant to the Machinery Directive. Produce design and manufacturing programmes. Produce all associated documentation, including, but not limited to, design calculations, design specifications, operation and maintenance manuals, and test specifications. Design and produce electrical layout and schematic drawings using appropriate CAD tools. Procurement of electrical control panels and liaise with suppliers on technical matters. Procurement of electrical installation services and liaise with suppliers on technical matters. Liaise with electrical installation supervisors and subcontractors.
• General Responsibilities: Liaise with Project Sales and Project Engineers during the project phase. Liaise with Project Managers, Customer and sub‑contractors during the order execution phase. Liaise with purchasing departments. Provide technical information to any department so entitled, i.e. Mechanical Design, Projects Sales, Service, Spares. Maintain and use, wherever possible, standard product information for the execution of orders. Where necessary to develop special and new standard solutions to suit specific projects and new markets. Innovate wherever possible to improve our delivered product to the end customer (e.g. reduced price, reduced timescale, improved functionality). Applies advanced skills to resolve complex problems not covered by existing procedures or practices independently. Maintain and improve upon personal skills related to the position, through experience and training. Comply with the company policy as defined in the Staff Handbook, Safety Manual, and Quality Assurance Manual. Promote personal and business continuous improvement and development of processes to achieve improved time cost and quality or project delivery. Demonstrates significant knowledge of organization’s business practices and issues faced and contributes to problem resolution of those issues.