Senior Automation Engineer

Reference: JUN

Expiry date: 22:59, Wed, 8th Jul 2026

Location:

Ipswich

Salary:
Competitive

Benefits:
Axa Health Private Medical, Life Assurance, Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay, Discounted Travel, Cruise Concessions plus retail discounts and cash back incentives through our Boost scheme

Established in 1963, Fred. Olsen Ltd focuses primarily on the Renewable Energy, Forest Management, Logistics and Travel Sectors. It operates globally and provides central service functions in Finance, HR, IT and Facilities for UK companies. We value innovation, service and dependability across our organization.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Intelligent Automation Engineer to help shape the future of how our business works. This role is all about turning operational challenges into practical, scalable solutions that deliver measurable value. The role involves designing, building and supporting automation solutions that reduce manual work, improve accuracy and increase process efficiency across the Fred. Olsen group.

Success relies on working with business teams to understand and solve problems, using tools such as RPA, low-code/no-code platforms, APIs, workflow automation and AI-assisted development to create secure, well-documented and supportable solutions.

• Design, build, and support automation solutions using RPA, low-code/no-code platforms, and AI-assisted technologies.
• Collaborate with business teams to understand operational challenges and translate them into technical requirements.
• Apply process mapping, requirements gathering, testing, and business handover best practices.
• Integrate solutions with modern integration and data technologies such as APIs, webhooks, JSON, SQL Server, Dataverse and Cosmos.
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and supportable within the Fred. Olsen group.

• Hands‑on experience in Microsoft Power Platform, RPA, document processing, OCR, Azure AI services or Microsoft Copilot Studio.
• Strong track record in designing, building, or supporting automation, workflow, or low-code solutions in a business environment.
• Solid understanding of process mapping, requirements gathering, testing, and business handover.
• Comfortable working with modern integration and data technologies such as APIs, webhooks, data transformation, JSON, SQL Server, Dataverse and Cosmos.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver secure, scalable, and supportable automation that drives operational value.

This is a Full‑Time, permanent position working 35 hours per week at our Head Office (Fred Olsen House, 42 White House Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 5LL
). The role offers a hybrid work pattern of 3 days in the office and 2 days at home.

As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the application process upon request.