Controls Engineer

Job Description

Recruit4staff is proud to be representing their client, a leading manufacturer, in their search for a Controls Engineer to work in their leading facility in Telford.

This is a great opportunity for a PLC Controls Engineer to join a well‑known manufacturing business in the heart of Telford. The company is looking for someone with experience on Rockwell PLCs.

• Permanent position
• 8.30 am – 5.00 pm Monday to Friday, with flexibility for slightly different hours
• Salary of £36,000 – £39,000 per annum (D.O.E)
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, an additional 5 service days on offer
• Pension scheme at auto‑enrolment rates
• Free parking
• Training and development opportunities
• After a year’s service benefits include extra week’s holiday, life cover, health cash plan plus flexible benefits.

• Expertly specify, design, execute and install PLCs and related electrical, electronic, and electro‑mechanical equipment, ensuring legislative compliance and adherence to all relevant standards.
• Develop software for all control system applications to ensure maximum productivity from plant through reliability and standardisation, both technical and operator interface.
• Support existing electrical, instrumentation and control systems and ensure requests for change or assistance are satisfied in accordance with existing standards, with all modifications recorded and approved.
• Recommend improvements or replacements to enhance reliability, safety or production through expert product knowledge.
• Be familiar with Rockwell products, new releases and applications where the product is in use elsewhere.
• Demonstrate a pragmatic, insightful, and logical approach to problem solving and continually challenge traditional methods while thinking about simplification, standardisation and improvement.

• Educated to degree level in electrical and electronic engineering.
• At least four years of relevant industrial experience.
• Knowledge of H&S requirements regarding control systems, robotics and human interface.
• Work with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience of working with Continuous Improvement processes.
• Knowledge of process and packaging machinery operation and process pipework systems, to complement the control system design and programming work.
• Experience of programming Rockwell PLC systems.

Controls Engineer, Rockwell PLC, Multi‑Skilled Engineer, Electrical Maintenance

Telford, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Cannock, Bridgnorth, Shifnal, Newport, Market Drayton

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