Automation Engineer
Macclesfield
Excellent Salary + Bonus + Benefits
Permanent | 37.5 hours per week
Are you an Automation Engineer, Controls Engineer or EC&I Engineer with strong PLC and industrial control systems experience?
We’re recruiting for an Automation Engineer to join a large-scale heavy process manufacturing site near Macclesfield.
This is a hands-on technical role responsible for the reliability, integrity and continuous improvement of plant automation and control systems. You’ll work closely with electrical, maintenance, production and control-room teams to reduce downtime, resolve control-system issues and deliver automation improvements across the site.
You’ll also play a key role in plant upgrades and CAPEX projects, supporting everything from specification and programming through to testing, integration and commissioning.
The Role
- Maintain and improve plant automation and control systems
- Diagnose PLC, software and control-system faults
- Prevent production downtime caused by automation issues
- Modify and develop control-system programming
- Support operators with plant control and system issues
- Integrate new equipment into existing control systems
- Support automation upgrades and plant improvement projects
- Assist with specification, programming, testing and commissioning
- Support CAPEX projects from development through to commissioning
- Ensure modifications are properly tested before implementation
- Develop robust control-system procedures and documentation
- Support server virtualisation and testing of program modifications
- Work closely with electrical, maintenance and production teams
- Identify opportunities to improve plant reliability and performance
- Ensure automation work is completed safely and appropriately risk assessed
What We’re Looking For
- Experience with industrial automation or control systems
- Strong PLC fault-finding and programming capability
- Experience with HMI, SCADA or process-control systems
- Electrical, Controls, Automation, EC&I or similar engineering background
- Experience within manufacturing, process or heavy industrial environments
- Comfortable diagnosing complex control-system faults
- Experience modifying and commissioning automated plant or machinery
- Understanding of industrial communications and control architecture
- Strong approach to plant reliability and continuous improvement
- Able to work effectively with operators and multidisciplinary engineering teams
Experience within cement, aggregates, quarrying, minerals, steel, chemical, food, glass, brick, ceramics or another continuous-process/heavy manufacturing environment would be particularly relevant.
What’s On Offer
Excellent salary alongside bonus, pension, enhanced holiday entitlement, employee discounts, wellbeing support and ongoing technical training and development.
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