PLC Automation Support Engineer

PLC Automation Support Engineer - Midlands

Due to growth, new work, and new customers, I am searching for an extra PLC Control Customer Support Engineer to use their PLC fault finding skills to aid leading manufacturers to solve problems on highly automated factory sites.

Role Overview:

• Responsibilities: PLC diagnostics, fault finding, maintaining automated machinery, modifying PLC control software, electrical maintenance of packaging and processing machinery, and site automation improvements.
• Location: Based in Northamptonshire, Rugby, Coventry, Leicestershire to support manufacturers with high factory automation needs in the Midlands.

Join a growing team of PLC Maintenance, Support, and Controls Engineers. You’ll support factory sites by using your PLC skills to:

• Find and rectify problems with automated machinery.
• Upgrade PLC systems.
• Work on PLC control software, drives, motors, controls, and sensors fault finding.

Ideal Candidate:

• Experience as a Maintenance Engineer or site Automation Technician.
• Worked with one of the main PLCs (e.g., Siemens TIA Portal, S7, WinCC, Allen Bradley/Rockwell Automation, Omron, Mitsubishi).
• Skilled in using PLC logic as a diagnostic tool to locate and rectify faults in automated machinery.
• Hands-on skills and an interest in fixing production machinery and upgrades.

Rewards:

• Basic salary from £43,000 - £48,000.
• 40-hour working week with paid overtime.
• Company vehicle.
• Benefits package.

Requirements:

• Full UK driving licence essential.
• Sponsorship for a UK Visa cannot be provided for this vacancy.

Interested? Send your CV to Mark Burnard at Hartland Recruitment to learn more about this PLC controls support vacancy.

Hartland Recruitment- a technical recruitment company specialising in finding Engineers for the UK Automation, Process Control Systems and Machinery Manufacturers since 1990. Looking for your next job in Electrical, Mechanical Design, Service Commissioning Engineering, or PLC HMI SCADA control? Send me your CV.