Automation Engineer

Randox; Antrim; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Randox Laboratories is seeking an Automation Engineer to join their manufacturing team in Antrim. The role involves designing and developing automated lines, ensuring compliance with regulations, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Ideal candidates will have a degree in engineering and experience with PLCs and automation systems.

Qualifications

• Qualified to at least degree level in engineering or relevant experience.
• Experience with PLC, Robots, and HMIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, service, and installation of PLC/Automation systems.
• Develop design concepts based on user requirements.
• Generate and maintain technical documentation.

Skills

PLC

Robots

HMIs

Continuous Improvement

Quality Systems

Health and Safety

Education

Degree in Engineering

Job description

Randox Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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Senior Recruitment Consultant Supervisor at Randox

Automation Engineer – (Job Ref: 25N/ATEG)

Randox Laboratories continues to develop disruptive innovations within the Diagnostics and Healthcare sector globally. We are proud to have been named the Number 1 company in Northern Ireland, for the second consecutive year in the “Belfast Telegraph Top 100 Companies 2024”. Our staff are at the heart of everything we do and achieve. We have a career opportunity for an Automation Engineer within our manufacturing department.

What does the manufacturing automation team do?

The team is responsible for designing and developing new automated lines to fulfil the company’s needs. Starting from the user requirements to the final validation of the machine, the team takes parts in all the steps of the process. As a multidisciplinary team formed by mechanical, electrical, biomed and automation engineers we design all the content of the automated lines.

Location: Randox Science Park, 30 Randalstown Rd, Antrim BT41 4FL.

Contract Offered: Full-time, Permanent.

Working Hours / Shifts: 40 hours over four days per week: Monday to Thursday.

What does the Automation Engineer role involve?

This role is responsible for the design, service, and installation of PLC / Automation within regulations, along with the validation of existing / new equipment to the relevant standards. This is an extremely varied role that will require you to develop a varied skillset, including:

• Develop design concepts based on user requirements.
• Contribute to the development of functional requirements specification based on user requirement and approved concept designs.
• Working with and alongside multi-disciplinary teams to ensure designs are rigorously tested, verified and validated.
• Identify appropriately specified COTS products for use with a design.
• Liaise with purchasing department in identification and evaluation of suitable suppliers.
• Generate and maintain technical documentation, specifically but not limited to mechanical drawings, work instructions. FMEA/BOM etc.
• Conduct, review and revise FMEA for equipment designs.
• Contribute to risk/hazard analysis for products under development and released.
• Produce report on status of projects/design to senior management.
• Contributing to design change of new and existing products.
• Ensure all systems are designed to high quality to meet compliance and regulatory standard.

Who can apply?

• Be qualified to at least degree level in engineering or relevant working experience.
• Experience with PLC, Robots and HMIs.
• Ability to read, interpret and apply information from files, drawings, catalogue, reports, and manuals.
• Ability to identify and design our repeat failures and develop, participate, and manage continuous improvement projects.
• Experience of similar process machinery (Filling, Capping, Labelling and Printing).
• Working knowledge of quality systems.
• Working knowledge of health and safety including COSHH.

This advert may be open for as long as 30 days although we may close the advert early if we receive sufficient applicants to fill the roles.

About Randox:

An international company operating in over 145 countries that continues to have unparalleled growth, Randox Laboratories was at the centre of the UK’s National COVID Testing Programme throughout the pandemic. In early 2020 Randox recognised the threat from COVID-19 and, based on over 40 years of diagnostic experience, quickly developed a test to accurately identify the virus. Testing at scale commenced within weeks to support the UK’s National Testing Programme and private clients alike.

Additionally, as a world leader in diagnostics for clinical healthcare, toxicology and food security, our expertise and product portfolio have assisted laboratories across the world in improving health and saving lives. Our global success is a result of our pioneering products and the commitment & skill of our workforce, which continue to grow exponentially.

Central to the Randox ethos is our drive and determination to improve healthcare worldwide and every one of our talented staff play a role in this. In order to serve our growing international markets, we require high calibre applicants with scientific, engineering, software, and broader business skills – including sales, marketing, logistics, finance and many more. Join the Randox team and play your part in improving the health of millions.

Randox Laboratories Limited is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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