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.
• Experience of or exposure to automated production test equipment.
• Working knowledge of electronics equipment.
• Exposure to software engineering principles.
• Project management experience.
• Experience as Technical Lead.
• 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.