PLC Control Engineer

Location: Bishops Stortford/Stansted

Company: UK Networks Services

Job Type: FullTime

About Us: UK Networks Services is an exciting electricity grid company that specialises in innovate solutions that enable faster bigger connections to the electricity grid and proactively manage energy use and storage to lower costs and carbon emissions for our customers. And we are growing fast!

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated PLC Control Engineer to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing developing and maintaining PLC control systems for a variety of applications related to the control of renewable energy and electricity grid applications we want to harness your existing PLC design skills and apply them to our exciting industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design of PLC based control systems for industrial control processes related to renewable energy projects including export limitation and control of heat exchangers.
  
• Create overall designs including I/O cards PLC selection Logic ladder diagrams and hardware design
  
• Create detailed engineering drawings and schematics in CAD including panel layouts wiring diagrams and I/O drawings
  
• Sourcing and working with production to get panels manufactured and tested
  
• Programming PLCs and troubleshooting
  

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• Previous PLC design experience (5 years )
  
• Electrical Engineering qualifications (HND/C or equivalent desirable)
  
• Experience of industrial communication protocols (e.g. Modbus Profibus Ethernet/IP)
  
• Extensive experience with AutoCad and relevant CAD packages
  
• Strong problemsolving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex control systems.
  
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
  
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  

Benefits

Benefits:

• Salary dependent on experience guide is 60k to 80k for the right candidate with great experience.
  
• Enhanced employers contribution pension scheme
  
• Death in Service benefit policy
  
• Cash health care plan
  
• Salary sacrifice schemes (bike to work childcare Electric Vehicles)
  
• 25 Days annual leave plus local bank holidays
  
• Attractive bonus scheme
  
• Days available to volunteer for local clubs/charities
  
• 300 available for sponsorship of local club or charity
  
• Professional registration fees paid annually