Controls Engineer in Stockport

Job title : Controls Engineer

Location: Greater Manchester (predominantly office based; UK site travel for commissioning)

Salary: £55,000£60,000 + accelerated overtime pay

About the role

A well-established, privately held engineering company specialising in bespoke automation and special-purpose machinery is recruiting a Controls Engineer to join a small, experienced controls team. The company delivers end-to-end automation (mechanical, electrical, controls, software and commissioning) across multiple industries and values hands-on problem solving, clear documentation and high quality commissioning.

What you\’ll do

• Design, develop and commission PLC and HMI software from scratch for bespoke machines and automated systems.
• Lead motion control and servo programming tasks, select axes, tune loops and implement coordinated multi-axis motion profiles.
• Work primarily with Siemens S7 / TIA Portal and Allen-Bradley (Studio 5000 / RSLogix) environments.
• Integrate PLC control with drives, servos, HMIs, I / O racks and field networks (Profinet, EtherNet / IP, etc.).

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