The Company
A market leading engineering company undergrowing a significant period of growth now require a Controls Engineer (Automated Test Equipment Engineer).
The Role
* The Engineer will work as part of a team developing software and hardware applications that support the needs of manufacturing.
* These will include in-house developer solutions for automated assembly, functional test and production monitoring.
* The Engineer will develop expert knowledge of the company’s products and systems in order to best support these developments.
* To design, realise, document, and maintain robust, user friendly, software and hardware solutions that provide the required functionality and performance levels to support manufacturing processes.
* Liaise with project, manufacturing, test equipment, in-service personnel and other stakeholders to capture requirements.
* Generation of software and hardware requirements and specifications.
* Develop schedules and costs for test systems solutions.
* Design instrumentation implementations and generate LabVIEW software code in accordance with own or other engineers’ schedule requirements, utilizing standard revision control and review procedures.
* Propose and implement new/best practice production development techniques.
* Contribute to creation of future strategic targets.
* Assist with the training and guidance of apprentices, operators and others where appropriate.
* Undertake training and development activities where appropriate.
The Person
* Bachelor's degree or relevant experience in software engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a similar field.
* Previous employment within a Manufacturing environment.
* Lean Manufacturing techniques.
* LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA.
* Pneumatic systems and integration.
* Awareness of Industrial PLC programming.
* Willingness to learn LabVIEW to interface with 3rd party hardware, integrate with existing systems, acquire, and analyse data, database interaction and user interface design.
* A range of automation hardware.
* Electronics and instrumentation.
* Experienced in developing test software for automatic execution.
* Other programming languages.
* SQL database implementation.
* LabVIEW programming to CLD level or higher.
The Benefits
* You will be working for a well-established growing employer.
* An excellent salary.
* Hybrid working (3 days onsite 2 home)
* A company experiencing continued growth, expansion and investment.
* The company are fully compliant with the latest health and safety requirements for current safe working practices