Automation Engineer

|Industrial & Energy - Automation|Australia

The Company
This company design, manufacture, and deliver specialist industrial machinery and equipment.

The company are continuing to grow and are part of an international Company with a range of complimentary business units.

Customised Products & Innovation: This company have an extensive product range that has been built up and tried and tested over many years. They are engaged in new product innovation and have growing service teams to support their projects side too.

The Role
We are seeking experienced Automation Engineers for this permanent full time position.

You will design, specify, program, and commission industrial control systems for multimillion-dollar product handling, Freezing and Chilling projects for Food Manufacturing clients.

The bulk of the projects are in Australia, and some projects are international.

You will be responsible for taking a project all the way through from an automation perspective. It will include initial designs, writing the software for PLC, HMI, SCADA, and Drives integration, and any custom project needs.

You will commission the project on a customer site and provide on-going troubleshooting and support.

Multidisciplinary Teams: You will become an integral part of an Automation & Electrical Engineering team and also work closely with teams in Sales, Projects, Mechanical Design, Operations, to bring these projects from concept to completion, delivering efficient and quality solutions.
You will manage your own projects as far as the automation component goes.

Travel for Commissioning: Travel will be required to visit customers and commission site installations. To apply you need to be ok with doing 2 to 3 large projects a year, and on-site commissioning typically 4 to 6 weeks per project.

Social: You will go out for coffees, go out for lunch every couple of months, and to celebrate a project completion. On your work anniversary, they’ll throw you a morning tea shout too.

Role Snapshot
Industrial Automation Project Engineering including:

  • Prepare scope and budget for electrical and controls projects
  • Automation solutions: Design, Component Selection, Develop, and Test
  • Control Systems Programming (PLC, HMI, SCADA, Drives)
  • On-Site: Installation, Maintenance, Retrofitting, and Commissioning
  • Production Troubleshooting and Analysis
  • Creation of Automation Documentation e.g., user manuals and training
  • On-going Product Support

Skills and Experience

  • Tertiary Qualified in Engineering, in Electrical, Control Systems, Industrial Automation, Mechatronics OR be a Trade Qualified Electrician with relevant skills and experience as follows
  • PLC Programming (Allen Bradley / Rockwell RS Logix is essential) Siemens is relevant too
  • Safety PLC/programmable relays experience – Allen Bradley, Sick Flexi Soft
  • HMI & SCADA Design and Configuration (Rockwell FactoryTalk View is essential), WinCC and Ignition are relevant too
  • VSD & Servo Drive experience e.g., PowerFlex or SEW
  • Proficient in using and fault-finding industrial network protocols – Ethernet, IO-Link, ASi
  • Can troubleshoot electrical and control systems
  • Microsoft Office Savvy
  • Can write Project Documentation

Why Apply?
From the Automation Engineers I have talked to, many are attracted to working for an OEM like this company. You will be able to take ownership of the company products, and delivering custom projects with these products, customising a solution for a customer and their particular site. Many Automation Engineers also like working with automated machinery, and that’s what you will do here. This role is a good blend between design work in the office and getting on site at project commissioning time, the best of both worlds.

With the increase of automation and robotics, this company have a solid pipeline of projects with a particularly large project on the horizon and they are hiring to meet that market demand for their products.

So, in sum, this is an interesting job in this sector, with an established, still growing, and publicly listed progressive company.

Note: Applicants for this position should be Citizens or Residents of Australia or New Zealand.

To Apply
To express your interest, click ‘Apply’.
If you have any inquiries, contact me.
 
Contact David Milmine (Recruitment Consultant)
Email: david@trs.co.nz
Phone: +64 4 595 4102
 
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