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Controls and Automation Engineer
Our client has grown to be Scotland’s largest and greenest metal production plants and is looking for an experienced, professional Automation Engineer, Electrical Controls Engineer to work within their manufacturing facility in the Scottish Highlands area. The key to this role is ability to work within a fast-moving production and manufacturing company within an integrated aluminium manufacturing and renewable hydropower plant maintaining and fault finding on a range of electrical products but with specific responsibility for controls, PLC’s, HMI, SCADA systems.
The Role                                               Â
This role requires applicants who can interrogate and program PLC’s, identifying problems and producing workable solutions to the controls. Ideally with a strongly established knowledge of programming. Managing the projects of all electrical equipment within our client’s facility. Knowledge of 3 phase electrical, drives, controls, sensors, controls, servo’s, invertors, and production equipment on site. The role requires applicants who has pro-active Project management, maintenance, reactive maintenance, and repair experience but must have programming and fault-finding experience of PLCs. Applicants will Development, planning and execution of projects. Project manage multiple projects concurrently in addition to providing engineering support to the site. Maintaining and updating all drawings associated with site control systems and projects, whilst monitors progress and performance against agreed objectives.
The Person
Applicants will preferably have present or previous Automation Engineering, PLC Programming, HMI, SCADA, electrical maintenance, and repair experience. Applicant with fault finding experience, PLC programming, PLC interrogation, PLC fault finding experience would be ideal. Applicants must hold a minimum of HND in engineering and have people management experience. Applicants should be suitably qualified; the role requires applicants to work Monday-Friday days with call out. If you feel you have the natural confidence and enthusiasm demonstrates your ability to undertake this challenging and rewarding new career, please contact us as soon as possible.
As a blue-chip company, you will receive a competitive salary £50-60k, Bonus £5k, Relocation allowance of £8,000, First 3 months’ Rent Paid, Sign-Up Bonus, On Call allowance of £3.1k, pension scheme, Health & Dental, Life Insurance Scheme, and 25 days holiday.
Contact us to discuss this opportunity and your application to this exciting role, as On-Line interviews will take place over the next few weeks.
SMS Scotland
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