Controls Engineer - East Grinstead, United Kingdom - Jonathan Lee Recruitment
Description
Role:
Controls Engineer (All levels considered)
Salary:
Excellent - Dependent on level of experience plus Bonus
Location:
East Grinstead, West Sussex
Hours: 8am - 415pm. 3pm on Friday (Hours can be flexed to suit)
Hybrid Working: 3 days office / 2 days home
Expenses:
All covered upfront by the business
Benefits: 8% Pension Contribution from the employer, 4% from the employee, Annual Bonus, 25 days holiday plus stats, Annual Pay rise.
The Business:
- The wider group employees over 100,000 employees from many diverse backgrounds. Their business areas include Material Services, Industrial Components, Marine Systems, Steel & Automotive.
The Requirements:
- To design control circuits for special purpose machines
- To create functions list for machine control and populate with relevant cross referencing to controls circuits
- To ensure safety both in designs and implementation in house and on customer sites
- To provide guidance and advise on a technical level to other departments
- To liaise with site teams to ensure smooth interaction between site and controls engineers
- To interface with both in house sub contract staff and exterior design resources
- To support other departments within the company including Sales, Purchasing, HR, Finance and Factory
- To work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
- To support the controls requirements for both powertrain and car body technology sides of the business
Project:
The manufacturing of assembly lines for Electric Drive Units.
Key Responsibilities/Competencies
- Experience of working in controls design
- Experience in special purpose design
- Design Hardware circuits from the mechanical design concept and customer specifications (new & modify existing) with Eplan and AutoCAD packages is preferred
- Reading / Understanding schematics
- Ensure Safety, Safety critical investigations
- PLC Programming
- Commissioning and fault finding in house and on customer sites (50/50 split all expenses covered)
- Pneumatic / Hydraulic circuit design knowledge (desirable)
- Understanding Pneumatic diagrams
- Must be prepared to travel to Germany for training days
Other Responsibilities:
- Design feasibility evaluation (FMEA, Safety Risk Assessments, Functions lists, Cycle timing diagrams, Calculations)
- Requisitioning equipment
- Technical Support (Onsite Engineering, Projects)
- CAD Administration
- Sales Proposal support
- Documentation support
- Purchasing/Procurement Support (technical input, supplier info)
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