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Location: West Midlands Salary: £30K - £50K DOE Contract: Full-Time or Part-Time | Permanent
Control Systems Engineer | Siemens | TIA Portal | PLC Programming | Automation
My client is a growing industrial automation and control systems business looking to appoint a Control Systems Engineer as part of a major growth phase within the company.
This role offers the opportunity to work on a wide variety of industrial automation projects involving Siemens PLCs, HMIs, drives and control systems across manufacturing and industrial environments.
The business is open to speaking with: Early career Controls Engineers Junior Automation Engineers Mid-level Controls Engineers Experienced Senior Control Systems Engineers Full-time and part-time applications are both welcomed.
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The Role As a Control Systems Engineer, you will be involved in: PLC programming and software development Siemens HMI design and configuration Siemens drive/VFD configuration Control system testing and fault finding Automation project delivery Commissioning and customer support activities Supporting industrial automation and control system projects from concept through to completion
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Key Skills & Experience Ladder Logic Structured Text Function Block Design (FBD) Experience with industrial automation systems Fault finding and troubleshooting experience
Highly Desirable: Siemens ET200SP experience Siemens S7-1200 / S7-1500 experience Siemens Unified Comfort HMI experience Siemens G120C drive experience Commissioning experience Industrial instrumentation exposure SCADA experience JAVA exposure
This role will involve a mixture of office-based engineering work alongside occasional customer site visits.
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