Automation Engineer

Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum + Healthcare, Save Schemes + More

Industry: FMCG Manufacturing

Shift: Days

• Lucrative Matched Pension
• Incentive Share Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Discounted HealthCare
• Additional Companies Discounts & Free Benefits

Our client, a market leading FMCG manufacturer, is seeking to enhance its team with the appointment of an Automation Engineer on site. This role offers the opportunity to work for a true market leader and established global brand. With progressive training and development, this role allows potential promotion in the longer term. With a long established presence on a UK wide scale and a consistent order book, this opportunity will appeal to a candidate looking for job security and a technical challenge.

Key Responsibilities:

• Electrical duty holder for site
• Attend daily/weekly team reviews (manufacturing and engineering)
• Manage and control site operational and engineering software
• Ensure backups are maintained for all software
• Ensure interface software is up to date and accessible
• Assist in developing data capture hardware and software systems
• Provide software troubleshooting advice and assistance where required
• Work with Capex team as required to implement automation and data capture projects
• Co-ordinate and delivery of software engineering training to the department
• Ensuring the shift engineers make best use of software systems
• Maintain winning ways behaviours around company policies
• Work with the shift engineers to deliver line improvements
• Multiskilled electrically biased time served engineer
• Computer literate with knowledge of CMMS systems
• FMCG experience
• Software programming capability across multiple platforms

As a business, our client is a market leading manufacturing company with a strong presence on both a UK and global scale.