Site Automation Engineer

Vacancy Name Site Automation Engineer

Employment Type Permanent

Country United Kingdom

Location Bradford

Business Area Operations

Workplace Type Onsite

About Princes The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

Reporting to the Site Electrical Engineer at Bradford, the role will facilitate the deployment and maintenance of the Princes Automation & Control Applications at the Bradford site.

The role provides plant support on integrated solutions for level 0 & 1 and will integrate all the practices involved into the wider Group strategy for delivering Automation Control & Instrumentation solutions to the Bradford site.

At level 0 the role will be expected to integrate and maintain key industrial components used in the manufacturing process e.g. sensors, valves, process control systems, Industrial PCs & PLCs. The level 1 support will require diagnosis, debugging and programming at the PLC level to rectify problems and connect to other automated systems.

This engineering resource should provide effective support of levels 0 and 1. The Princes MES team supports the SCADA and Wonderware on site. These applications will need occasional automation support as required.

The role will be expected to perform key support activities which reduce reliance on 3rd‑party support suppliers. The Site Automation Engineer will support the Site Electrical Engineer to reduce machine obsolescence to ensure future equipment resilience.

As a part of the support function this role will work with the business to strive to achieve optimal operational efficiency at the lowest cost through the delivery of targets against the strategic objectives of the function.

• Quality
• Cost
• Delivery
• Safety
• People

The role also provides a structured link between the Site Engineering function and the Site Operational systems and teams. The role of the Site Automation Engineer is required to provide support to the engineering and manufacturing operations through the development, maintenance and administration of all aspects of the electrical process control systems infrastructure and instrumentation.

The scope of the role includes all automated manufacturing systems on site: PLC, HMI, PCC and systems along with all measuring instrumentation and devices.

The key role also serves the site competent person in electrical systems to guide and support, through close collaboration with the whole Engineering team, Operational teams, Continuous improvement and Projects teams.

The key aims are to have 100% uptime of systems and infrastructure, eliminate breakdowns resulting from electrical systems, control systems and instrumentation, within agreed budgets.

To maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards by ensuring all associated policies and procedures are adhered to.

• To ensure that all electrical and controls are designed and maintained to ensure safe operation, conducting risk assessments.
• Process control domain system administration and maintenance.
• Specification, maintenance and administration of all site PLC, HMI, PCC and other automated systems, which includes:
  Code backups, fault finding and disaster recovery modifications, maintenance monitoring, version control, validation, upgrades and bug fixes, system document and procedure updates, licensing.
• Administration and maintenance of site process control communication networks which include:
  Ethernet, Profinet, Profibus, AS‑i.
• Configuration management—managing and updating network configurations including operating system versions and network parameters.
• Fault management—detecting, logging, rectifying issues or faults within the network.
• Competent person for Process Control & Instrumentation Engineering: equipment specification, equipment inspection and compliance, instrument setup and…