The Senior Staff Engineer will provide technical leadership across a range of projects and initiatives for the facility. They will be a Subject Matter Expert in a Technical, Engineering, Automation or Business Process area.

hat will you do: 

• Provide Technical leadership to the wider engineering team in the field of process automation. 

• Provide day to day support to operations for Automation and Controls components within the manufacturing process.  

• Identify, evaluate & implement opportunities for continuous improvement.

• Participate within project teams, provides technical support and makes informed decisions on hardware and architecture selection. 

• Analyse, understand, fault-find and modify where necessary automation software in line with the sites quality management system. 

• Develop, test and install control’s software as part of a highly automated and validated production environment. 

• Champion digital reporting tools and visualisations that are thorough, detailed and able to be comprehended by the end user 

• Develop User, Functional and Detailed Design Specifications. 

• Provide guidance on integrating, testing, evaluating and modifying automated systems and seeing the process through from beginning to end. 

What you need: 

• Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or related field with equivalent technical experience. 

• Has minimum of 6+ years, software and controls experience in a manufacturing environment. 

• Demonstrated ability to provide technical solutions for complex problems through automation systems knowledge. 

• Proven Project Management skills through the delivery of Automation and or Digitalisation projects. 

• Strong technical background is essential for this role (PLC, HMI, Robotics, GAMP, GMP). 

• Understanding of FDA, BSI and regulatory software validation requirements 

Preferred 

• Experience with Allen Bradley and Siemens controls systems 

• Some experience of scripting programming languages 

• Some experience of Object Orientated Programming and SQL Server DB design 

• Working knowledge of Ignition SCADA platform and Cognex vision systems is beneficial.