Controls Engineer - Allen Bradley £60-70,000 + O/T & Bens

Controls Engineer – Allen Bradley Specialist

Location: UK – Home based
Salary 60,000 - 70,000 GBP, + O/T, excl benefits, 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, 8% pension, extensive training

Key Skills:

Controls Engineer – UK based

Must have 5+ years as a Controls Engineer

Must have 5+ years with Allen Bradley PLCs

Nice to have – Cognex vision systems

Why apply:

World class medical device assembly manufacturer, innovative engineering, and the opportunity to use experience to teach, mentor and influence the customer outcomes.
The Client:
A manufacturer of world class automation solutions to the pharma and medical device world, 300mn global sales, with offices across the globe. They are looking to add to their powerful team a Controls Engineer to contribute to their ongoing commitment to best-in-class solutions to the world’s leading pharmaceutical and assembly clients.

Key tasks:

• Daily business – Customer support remotely, and direct customer visits across the UK


• Continuous improvements. - Analyse, code preparation, implementation


• After delivery support  - help customer to master their equipment to OEE to FAT/SAT standards

Technical requirements:

• Electrical Engineer (HND, university degree or equivalent) with relevant experience


• 5 years of AB code writing + debugging, Databases knowledge, other PLC an advantage,


• C++ an advantage.


• Good working knowledge of numeric Axis/Drives/Encoder.


• Good working knowledge of assembly process, such welding, pressing, screwing, measuring, etc.


• Machine safety knowledge.


• Good understanding of vision system (Cognex preferably).


• Assembly high speed machines market experience.

The Controls Engineer holds key responsibilities working alongside the dynamic engineering team to deliver and develop customer specifications and products to create highly complex and innovative assembly concepts based on the companies assembly platforms.

This role requires independence across the UK, with an entrepreneurial mindset supporting the hugely prestigious pharmaceutical client base, these are major contracts are at the highest level and the engineering excellence reflects that.

If you're a forward thinking Controls Engineer who likes to influence a positive direction of a customers complex automation then you have to consider this role.

This is a role at the very pinnacle of the industry.

This isn't any ordinary company. This is a career move.

If you like what you hear so far, you should apply, we will share the recent personnel growth and the people introduced who are already making an impact.

Additional skills:

• High degree of analytical skills while maintaining a creative approach to your work


• Ability to meet objectives without getting lost in the details


• Open minded personality with communication, negotiation and persuasion skills


• Ability and willingness to travel

Package details:

Circa 60,000 - 70,000 GBP + O/T, excellent benefits 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, and an excellent pension.

If you want to work with a world class business, leading the way with their automation solutions across the world this is the role for you.