Automation Engineer

TN United Kingdom; Antrim; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Diagnostics and Healthcare sector is seeking an Automation Engineer to join their manufacturing team. This role involves designing and developing automated lines, ensuring compliance with regulations, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams. Candidates should have a degree in engineering and experience with PLCs and robotics.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

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

Skills

PLC

Robots

HMIs

Continuous Improvement

Computer Literacy

Education

Degree in Engineering

Job description

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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?

Essential criteria:

• 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.
• Strong computer literacy.

Desirable:

• 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.