Controls Engineer

1 month ago


Plymouth, United Kingdom Acorn Recruitment And Training Full time

Job title: Controls Engineer
Location: Plymouth
Hours: 08:00 - 16:30
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Due to growth of our large international client, Acorn is recruiting for a Controls Engineer to join their clients maintenance team on a permanent basis.
Responsibilities include:

- Identify obsolete components and source alternatives. Design modifications to enable upgrades
- Design new control panels, build panels and install on machinery
- To support the introduction of new machinery from specification to standards through to FAT
- Analyse downtime faults and causes and create effective PPM and TPM activities
- Contribute to problem solving workshops, providing automation expertise to identify root causes of failures and the subsequent improvement actions
- Sourcing and procurement of spare components
- Maintain back ups of all control systems parameters and programs. PLC, HMI, drives, inverters, etc.
- Review and document machinery PUWER, safety RA, SOPs, etc.
Qualifications and training:

- Completed apprenticeship (NVQ Level 3) in appropriate Electrical engineering discipline
- Possession of ONC or equivalent in a relevant discipline
- High level of PLC, HMI programming
- High level of motion control set up and commissioning
- Safe working practices within an engineering environment
- Experience in Control / Automation Engineering
- Design of safety related functions and control circuits
- Building of control panels
Acorn Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment.



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