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