Site Electrical Automation & Controls Engineer

Site Electrical Automation & Controls Engineer focuses on acting as the site’s electrical duty holder, ensuring compliance with statutory electrical standards.

What the role involves

• Acting as the site’s Electrical Duty Holder, ensuring compliance with statutory electrical standards.
• Leading PLC and control system development, programming, and fault-finding, for various Siemens, Allen Bradley and Mitsubishi related.
• Driving continuous improvement and standardisation of electrical and control systems.
• Creating and maintaining a technical documentation library for electrical distribution and automation assets.
• Coaching and mentoring engineers in electrical fault-finding and controls.

Skills and requirements

• Time-served apprenticeship with HNC or equivalent in Electrical Engineering (Degree desirable).
• Strong electrical knowledge and ideally 18th Edition certification.
• Hands-on experience with a variety of PLC and automation systems (Siemens, Allen-Bradley, or similar).
• Proven ability to diagnose, program, and optimise control systems in a manufacturing or process environment.

Confirmed role details

• Buckinghamshire – commutable from M1, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire and surrounding areas.
• PRIMARILY Onsite ROLE, Monday to Friday, days 38 38-hour week.
• Job Reward: £60-65k plus Package Target search.
• Are you ready to take ownership of electrical and automation systems on an established, high-performing manufacturing site?

Candidate fit

• technical judgement, safe working habits, careful diagnostics, and practical problem-solving