Industrial Automation Specialist

1 month ago


Sittingbourne, Kent, United Kingdom DS Smith Full time

As a highly skilled Industrial Automation Specialist at DS Smith, you will play a critical role in the coordination and management of drive maintenance programs. Your expertise in Drive Control and Automation systems will ensure that all asset, parts, and maintenance schedules are created and facilitated using engineering asset management tools.

Your responsibilities will include coordinating and managing the motor store, ensuring spares are effectively maintained, developing and managing various training programs, and recording, storing, and making available VSD drives and programmable smart motor control center devices software and parameters. Additionally, you will manage asset databases, obsolescence, and improvement plans, work with asset teams to replace obsolete equipment, create an asset performance monitoring system as part of the Industry 4.0 initiative, and develop and participate in upgrade projects. You will also ensure systems and safety files are maintained, change control is in place, and records are available for auditing.

This role requires experience in Drive Control and Automation systems, understanding of principles of AC and DC drives, electrical or multi-skilled engineering background, recognised Electrical Engineering qualification, and the ability to identify the root cause of problems by logical problem solving and using industry standard tools and approach. As a key member of the team, you will be driven and self-motivated, always looking for improvements in the way we do things, accountable and wanting to take full ownership over your area of expertise.



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