Electrical Design and Controls Engineer
- Recruiter
- Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
- Location
- Reading
- Salary
- 35000.00 - 38000.00 GBP Annual
- Posted
- 12 Dec 2018
- Closes
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sectors
- Engineering, Electrical
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Electrical Design and Controls Engineer | Reading | OTE GBP38,000 per annum
My Client is looking for an Electrical Design and Controls Engineer to join their team in Reading. You would be part of a team that designs special purpose machinery that exports worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
Benefits: Company Health Insurance scheme following probation period. Opportunity to follow the IET Chartered Engineering CPD scheme to gain fully Chartered Engineer status.
Holiday: 20 days per year plus bank holidays, rising to 22 after 3 years in continuous employment and 23 days after 5 years in continuous employment, plus public holidays
Starting Date: January 2019
Reporting to: Design Manager
My Client is looking for an Electrical Design and Controls Engineer to join their team in Reading. You would be part of a team that designs special purpose machinery that exports worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and specify control systems and electrical components for industrial automation systems.
- Create electrical schematics and designs within AutoCAD Electrical including layout diagrams, terminal and wiring plans to EU Standards.
- PLC and controls programming of industrial automation systems.
- Maintain, develop and support existing control systems at customer site within the UK and overseas.
- Work with the Design and Applications Engineering engineers to provide drawings, specifications and deliver projects on time.
- Help as required for the electrical fitting, wiring of panels and assembly of machine builds.
- Carry out electrical testing procedures on new machine builds.
- Supporting electrical problem-solving during manufacturing build process.
- Minimum of 3 years industry experience.
- Experience and knowledge of designing and creating electrical panel layouts within electrical CAD software.
- Sound understanding of electrical control gear, industrial automation and implementation of communication protocols (Profibus/DeviceNet/TCP/IP/serial/OPC etc.)
- Experience of PLC programming, developing control systems and PLC automation software on projects from start to finish.
- Clean UK driving licence
Benefits: Company Health Insurance scheme following probation period. Opportunity to follow the IET Chartered Engineering CPD scheme to gain fully Chartered Engineer status.
Holiday: 20 days per year plus bank holidays, rising to 22 after 3 years in continuous employment and 23 days after 5 years in continuous employment, plus public holidays
Starting Date: January 2019
Reporting to: Design Manager