Control and Automation Engineer

Company: Chiltern Park Recruitment Ltd
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Location: Milton Keynes
Job Description:

An exciting opportunity has arisen with a worldwide market leading multinational engineering company working with clients in the automotive, aerospace, renewable, scientific, pharmaceutical, electronics, oil and gas and food processing industries they are recruiting a Graduate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering or similar to carry out a Control and Automation Engineer role with experience in setting-up and programming PLCs to provide product support to their subsidiaries business. This would be ideal for a Graduate with a year or two’s experience, who is looking for excellent training and career progression, this company is expanding fast, having grown from 200 to nearly 400 staff in the last 3 years.


Location: Milton Keynes


Salary & Benefits



  • Salary: £28,000 – £,48,000 (depending on experience)

  • Bonus Scheme

  • Annual Bonus

  • Excellent Pension

  • Life Insurance

  • Private Healthcare Cover

  • 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)

  • Buys and sell holiday scheme

  • Free hot lunches in restaurant

  • Sports and social club


Responsibilities



  • The role requires supporting our electrical products by answering technical questions, providing assistance for specific customer applications and performing fault investigations.

  • The successful candidate will also be required to design and deliver training courses/presentations to European subsidiaries, create operation manuals and technical guides, as well as carrying out investigations and tests to evaluate the company’s products.

  • The business is currently expanding fast, providing growth opportunities for those who join.

  • As part of our global development team led by Japan, we are focused on delivering solutions to our customers that are innovative and future proof.

  • The ability to occasionally travel to Europe.


Requirements



  • A Degree Qualification BENG OR MENG ideally – Electrical, Electronics, Software or Electromechanical Engineering Minimum 1 year relevant work experience

  • Knowledge of PLCs and Ladder or Structured Text programming language

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills as you will be required to write detailed, technical reports and product documentation

  • Any experience with some of the major industrial communication protocols would be advantegous but is not essential: PROFINET, EtherCAT, Ethernet/IP and IO-Link

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Posted: October 24th, 2026