Control Engineer

**Control Engineer
- British Gypsum - Saint Gobain - East Leake Based Role**

At Saint-Gobain, we pride ourselves on being innovative, customer focused, agile, open and engaging and entrepreneurial. We are also proud to have been named a 'Top Employer' for 7 consecutive years. If you are a quick learner, you like working in a team,and you want to know what it's like to work for a top employer that is working hard to make the world a better home; then please read on to find out more about this exciting opportunity to join us as a**Control Engineer based in East Leake.**

**Is this role right for me?**

**_We're proud to help create places where people and communities flourish. By pioneering the use of drylining partitions, wall linings, ceilings and plaster finishes we're able to create better buildings and leave a positive legacy of improvingpeople's lives._**

**_We know the future means better built environments, better homes, better places to work and better lives. And we're committed to creating a positive impact for people and the planet._**

**_As the trusted partner of architects, contractors, and drylining and plastering professionals, we've been leading the way to help the construction industry build better._**

The overall purpose of the role is to maintaining and developing control systems (including PLC's and SCADA) that support operations teams and facilitate the efficient and smooth running of the plant, whilst also providing the process data and understandingto others so that they are equipped to fully flourish within their roles.

**Role Accountabilities**
- Recognises that safety is the number one priority to deliver a zero harm culture. Helps to communicate the message that safety vigilance and risk awareness standards need to be upheld and are a focus for all on site.
- Has full awareness of our priorities and targets for sustainability and helps to deliver improvements in our environmental impact throughout all our activities.
- Ensure that continuous personal development opportunities are fully explored. Highlights any shortfalls in skills or knowledge or areas that need improvement.
- Engages with others in their team and outside of it, to promote the transferring of knowledge and understanding to all those that require it.
- Completes planned effective maintenance activities to sustain plant reliability, quality and most of all safety.
- Supports the roadmap for automation and control within the long term plan, while engaging with future developments in technology and new processes
- Supports the overall site engineering vision and strategy that delivers the business objectives.
- Leads small and medium projects, organises the resource required to complete to a plan and takes financial control of the budget
- Assists with the development of any new technologies and innovations that may be adopted to improve automation and control.
- Helps to coordinate the required resources to enable their performance team to deliver the desired business results.
- Works together with other individuals and teams to achieve the challenging targets that are set to maintain high standards of maintenance for the plant.
- Collaborates in the process of setting realistic personal targets that will contribute to achieving both their personal and business goals.

**Required Experience and Qualifications**
- Extensive experience as a Control Engineer
- HNC / Degree Calibre
- PLC knowledge of Allen Bradley / Siemens / WinnCC
- Profibus - DP & PA networks
- Experience in a continuous manufacturing environment
- Familiarity with industrial control systems
- Familiarity with Ethernet based industrial networks
- Experience of managing small to medium project budgets The ability to assist with engineering investigations to rectify line failures (maintaining a flexible working pattern to give out of hours support where possible)
- Project Management Knowledge and Experience
- Broad experience of plant instrumentation systems

**Permanent Role Package / Benefits**

In addition to a competitive base salary plus an attractive bonus scheme, you will benefit from a significant focus on your own personal development and also have access to:

- 36.25 Hours Per Week
- 25 Days holidays + Public Holidays
- Bonus Scheme (up to 15%)
- Pension - 4% contribution (Increasing with Service)
- Life Assurance - 2 x salary / 4 x salary in pension scheme
- Staff Discount - Across Saint-Gobain Brands

**Are Saint-Gobain an Inclusive employer?**

We're working hard to be, and we're keen to hire talented people regardless of their background, abilities, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, taste in music, fashion sense or anything else that makes you, you

We understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision making and innovation. So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us.

**And what about flexibility?**

The world of work is changing, and at Saint-Gobain we are open to new ways of working in order to attract talented people to our business. We understand that everyone has different needs and commitments. Therefore, we are very open to discuss any flexiblerequirement or need that you may have for this role (this could be flexible hours, a job share, part time, to name a few). We can't guarantee to meet all requests for flexibility when we are recruiting, but we promise to listen.