Automation & Controls Engineer

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Automation & Controls Engineer Cardiff Continental Shifts Are you passionate about driving excellence in automation and control or ready to make your next step and make a tangible impact? If so, this opportunity could be your next step. Yolk Recruitment are searching for a talented Automation & Controls Engineer to join a dynamic manufacturer in Cardiff. This is your chance to shape, support and maintain world-class process control solutions for a major UK manufacturer. You'll become the technical lead for PLC controls on shift-diagnosing, resolving and preventing issues for critical manufacturing systems. From hands-on breakdown response to delivering robust preventative maintenance and optimising systems uptime, your impact will be seen and felt site wide. You'll be responsible for: Lead on PLC, HMI, SCADA and Historian support-fault finding, code backups, upgrades, and process improvement. Administer industrial networks (Ethernet, ControlNet, Device Net etc.), troubleshoot faults, and manage software updates. Guide colleagues as the electrical systems Competent Person collaborating across departments to ensure safe, reliable and efficient operations. Develop and deliver user requirements, validation and safety testing for new system installations and upgrades. Champion continuous improvement-challenge processes, push best practice, and strengthen site capability through knowledge sharing and training. The experience you'll bring to the team: Experience in automation and process control-ideally in FMCG or industrial environments. Strong working knowledge of PLCs, HMI, instrumentation & drives-preferably Siemens/Allen Bradley & Mitsibushi Confident in modifying, testing and troubleshooting control systems at both hardware and software layers. Experience with SAP, Wonderware and other Scada systems Electrical Apprenticship with a minimum of NVQ level 3 and 5 years experience in a Maintenance position. And this is what you'll get in return: Salary: Circa £53,000 (inclusive of shift allowance) Pension matched up to 14% Critical illness cover, learning & development, and company-incentive schemes Are you up to the challenge? Are you what we're looking for? Please get in touch today with engineering specialist recruiter, Andy Jones. Please apply with a CV and feel free to include a cover letter outlining why you're perfect for the role. We also have a referral scheme so if you know of someone who would be great for the role please get in touch. *Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities.

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