Automation & Electrical Engineer

Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Müller Milk & Ingredients seeks an Electrical & Automation Support Engineer at Severnside Dairy to sustain and improve automation infrastructure. You will support maintenance delivery, improve asset reliability and develop site automation capabilities.

The role focuses on cost-effective maintenance, reliability improvements and contributing to the Maintenance Excellence roadmap. A permanent, full-time position with day shifts (8am–4pm) awaits at Severnside Dairy in GL10 2DG.

Qualifications

• This role requires a technical engineering background with hands-on fault-finding skills.
• Experience with PLCs (Siemens S7, Allen‑Bradley) and SCADA systems is essential.
• Ability to work safely, coach others and support maintenance excellence initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement across engineering, facilities and site roadmap activity.
• Provide specialist electrical and automation support for reactive issues and improvements.
• Support minor automation Capex projects and wider site projects with automation elements.
• Collaborate with central automation teams to maintain standards, documentation and compliance.
• Develop automation capability and coach colleagues across the site.

Skills

Fault-finding

PLC programming

SCADA systems

Industrial networking

Data analysis

Communication

Health & Safety

Team collaboration

Education

Electrical or Mechanical Engineering degree

Recognised apprenticeship

Tools

Siemens S7

Allen-Bradley

SCADA (INTOUCH)

Job description

We are currently looking to recruit an Electrical & Automation Support Engineer to join our Severnside Blowmoulding within our Müller Milk & Ingredients business.

Contract: Full Time/Permanent

Monday to Friday: 8am – 4pm

Location: Severnside Dairy – GL10 2DG

This is a key site-based role focused on delivering cost-effective maintenance activity, improving asset reliability and supporting the continued development of the site’s automation infrastructure. The successful candidate will support maintenance delivery in line with the annual maintenance plan and operational demands, while actively identifying and implementing improvement methods to increase reliability. You will also support the Maintenance Excellence roadmap and help develop systems and people to improve automation performance across the site.

Electrical & Automation Support Engineer key responsibilities will include:

• Drive continuous improvement across engineering, facilities and site roadmap activity, supporting Quality, Health & Safety, EMS, Engineering and Autonomous Maintenance objectives.
• Provide specialist electrical and automation support for reactive issues, structured problem solving, improvement initiatives and operational excellence activity.
• Support minor automation Capex projects and wider site projects with automation elements, ensuring alignment with ADE/ADM requirements and group standards.
• Work closely with central Automation Development teams to maintain site automation standards, software documentation, version control and compliance.
• Own and support site obsolescence and improvement plans, including controls, panel risk assessments, health checks and remedial actions.
• Use performance and site data to identify opportunities to improve production efficiency, quality, reliability and operability.
• Support, coach and train colleagues to develop automation knowledge while maintaining a strong focus on health and safety for self and others.

Systems and technical scope:

• PLC programming knowledge across Siemens S7 and Allen-Bradley platforms.
• SCADA systems and INTOUCH application development.
• Industrial networking and automation infrastructure.
• Electrical panels, controls and breakdown fault-finding.
• Software documentation, version control and compliance standards.
• Automation health checks, panel risk assessments and obsolescence planning.

What we’re looking for from our next Electrical & Automation Support Engineer:

• Educated in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, ideally with completion of a recognised apprenticeship.
• Completion of a multi-skilled training programme would be advantageous.
• Strong ability to fault-find within electrical panels and during breakdown situations.
• PLC programming knowledge in Siemens S7 and Allen-Bradley, with SCADA systems experience.
• Understanding of industrial networking and the ability to develop INTOUCH applications.
• Proficient with Microsoft products and confident using data to support improvement activity.
• Able to communicate technical information clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to actively apply engineering skills in a safe, effective and improvement-focused manner.
• Proactive and improvement-focused, with a strong interest in reliability and automation performance.
• Collaborative, with the ability to work closely with site engineering, operational teams and central automation colleagues.
• Confident supporting and coaching others to build automation knowledge and capability.
• Committed to maintaining high standards of health, safety, quality and compliance.

What the role offers:

• A permanent, full-time role within a leading UK dairy manufacturing business.
• The opportunity to influence automation standards, asset reliability and maintenance excellence across Severnside Dairy.
• A varied technical role supporting projects, improvement activity, reactive issues and site development plans.
• The chance to coach colleagues and help develop automation capability across the site.

At Müller, we’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage people to apply even if they don’t meet every requirement listed. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re happy to support you.