Warburtons
Software and Controls Engineer
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Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday (Days based role)
Benefits include:
- Profit related bonus
- 5 weeks of annual leave (opportunity to buy more)
- Award-winning pension scheme
- Benefits for you and your family
Location: Bolton Bakery
Are you a Software Controls Engineer, Automation Engineer, or an Electrical Engineer with a passion for automation and improving plant performance? Due to a promotion, we have an exciting opportunity for a Software Controls/Automation Engineer. Working in a day-based role as part of a highly skilled and well-established engineering team, you’ll be driven and skilled at both delivering automation improvement solutions and in finding and rectifying faults on plc-controlled equipment and networks.
At our Bolton site, you’ll join colleagues working across 3 operating plants – with a culture that values teamwork, development, and innovation.
Now is a great time to join a business that’s thriving, evolving, and investing in the future.
The Recipe
You’ll be working to maintain all software, hardware infrastructure, and control systems. You’ll also identify and complete continuous improvement projects to increase plant efficiency, reduce downtime, and save energy and associated costs. Your work will focus on improving plant performance and efficiency, supporting in breakdown resolution followed by taking a leading role in the investigation into root cause analysis (RCA) to prevent future occurrences. You’ll enjoy the variety of a manufacturing environment and be keen to get involved in other work such as safety teams and improvement initiatives.
You’ll be encouraged and supported to foster new ideas and perspectives whilst driving change. We promote a culture of continuous improvement whilst working on a changing approach to reliability-centered maintenance in a highly automated production facility.
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The Role
- Requirement to ensure knowledge of the latest technologies and practices are continually updated with opportunities identified to optimise manufacturing processes
- Safety - Adherence to relevant safety standards across all activities (including external contractors). Ensure plant controls are safe to operate, maintain, and personnel conform to health & safety legislation, policies, and standards.
- Through effective software and hardware management processes, supports and manages site implementation of a Business led engineering reliability strategy.
- Support the development of site revenue and capital budgets, whilst identifying and leading the execution of relevant capital projects.
- Drive a proactive Engineering Continuous Improvement culture cross-functionally. Through contributing to the improvement and development of manufacturing hardware & software activities
- Training and coaching of Engineers to an agreed working knowledge in PLC / control systems to ensure they have the required competency and capability to support bakery performance
- Ensure supplier contract content & supplier relationship is maintained, and supplier effectiveness is reviewed.
Essential Ingredients
- You’ll have a strong drive to identify opportunities for equipment improvement using plant-based automation and related solutions to help improve efficiency and performance.
- Experience in fault finding and maintaining existing control systems, preferably with Allen Bradley (Rockwell) platforms (RSLogix500, Logix5000 etc.)
- Experience of software development and programming languages including ladder logic
- Knowledge of communication protocols and networks
- Strong electrical knowledge and understanding of control-related systems
- Knowledge and experience of project management
- Knowledge / awareness of functional safety
- Proven experience of improvements resulting in a reduction of breakdowns or increased efficiency
- Formal electrical automation training with an awareness of process and mechanical engineering.
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Successful candidates must have, or be eligible to obtain, the right to work in the UK before commencing employment.
Extra Dough
At last and by no means least you will want to know what your bread is worth.
- A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
- Family time is important to us so, as well as your holiday entitlement, we'll give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra week's annual leave
- Award-winning pension scheme with company contributions
- Private medical insurance and life assurance
- Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
- Continued investment in your personal development
- Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
- Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice, and a comprehensive occupational health service
We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.
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