PLC diagnostics- fault finding - maintaining automated machinery - modifying PLC control software - electrical maintenance of packaging and processing machinery, site automation improvements. That's what this is.

Due to growth, new work, new customers, different sites to support, I need 2 extra Engineers. Ideally one based Northampton, Rugby, Coventry, Leicester- and the other based Peterborough to Kings Lynn.

Joining a growing team of PLC Maintenance, Support and Controls Engineers, you'll be supporting factory sites by using your PLC skills to help to find and rectify problems with automated machinery, to upgrade PLC systems, to do the work on PLC control software, drives, motors, controls, sensors fault finding that the factory sometimes lacks. Having won several new customer sites to look after in the East Midlands and East Anglia, they need an extra PLC Service Support Engineer to go to site, use your PLC fault finding skills, electrical maintenance ability, automation skills to trace, repair and add value to the site automation.

You: As a Maintenance Engineer or site Automation Technician, you’ve worked with one of the main PLC’s (maybe you’ve got a grasp of Siemens TIA Portal, S7, WinCC, or Allen Bradley / Rockwell Automation, Omron, Mitsubishi for example). You don’t need to be a PLC programmer, writing control software from scratch- but good at using the PLC logic as a diagnostic tool to locate and rectify faults in automated machinery- fault finding, hands-on skills, have an interest in fixing production machinery, upgrades. 

Rewards: A basic salary from £43000 - £48000, a 40 hour working week, with paid overtime above that, company vehicle, plus a benefits package.

Full UK driving licence essential. Sponsorship for a UK Visa cannot be given with this vacancy.

To learn more about these 2 new PLC controls support vacancies, send a copy of your CV to Mark Burnard at Hartland Recruitment.

Hartland Recruitment - a specialist technical recruitment agency, finding Engineers for Control Systems Engineering companies and Machinery Manufacturers throughout the UK since 1990.