Control System Engineer, S7, ABB, Wincc, Flex, Motion Control

Control System Engineer for rapidly expanding, specialist industrial automation company. Due to a large order book they are now looking for an expert System Integration and Control Engineer to work within a high volume-manufacturing environment. The Control Engineer will be required to help build state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment that must innovative and robust.

The Systems Integration and Control System Engineer must have:

- A Minimum 7yrs commercial experience within industrial automation
- An understanding of motion control
- Siemens S7 or ABB programming experience (ie built from scratch using tools like Rapid)
- HMI (WinCC or Flex, for example)
- Solid fault finding experience ideally using Siemens ProfiBUS and ProfiNET
- Basic CAD for mechanical and electrical design
- HNC/HND/BEng/MEng/BSc degree level qualification

Responsibilities:

- Implement control systems for drives, sensors, optics and electronics on all production equipment
- Design of control systems using Siemens S7 and/or ABB programming
- Interfacing control S/W with electronics hardware products
- Test and optimisation
- Documentation
- Working within a small team the Systems Integration and Control System Engineer must be able to work alone. But also dive into a variety of issues that occur each day

Key words: Siemens, Siemens S7, HMI (WinCC or Flex, ProfiBUS, ProfiNET, Comms, Robots, ABB, CAD, Sensors, motion control, manufacturing, electronics, Matlab, Simulink

Contractor in place while a permanent member of staff is found. Therefore, contract length could be anything from 3 - 12 months. But will roll on a montly basis after a fixed 3 months.