Controls Engineer

Roxel; Kidderminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the defense sector is seeking a Maintenance Engineer to support production and factory services. The role requires expertise in electrical maintenance and PLC systems, ensuring efficient and reliable operations. The successful candidate will work closely with the maintenance team, maintaining high standards and safety protocols.

Qualifications

• Recognised electrical qualifications required.
• Proven maintenance engineering experience needed.
• Experience with PLCs (Siemens S7, S5, Mitsubishi) is essential.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on plant equipment.
• Work as part of a maintenance team to ensure efficient performance.
• Diagnose faults and improve asset reliability.

Skills

PLC programming interrogation

Electrical understanding

Mechanical understanding

Root cause analysis

Microsoft Office

Education

Recognised electrical qualifications

18th Edition BS7671 certificated

2391/52 inspection and testing qualified

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Roxel is an Anglo-French Company that designs, develops and manufactures a range of solid propellant rocket motors for use in tactical missiles. Its operations are spread across several sites in the UK and France and it has an annual turnover of about £150M and nearly 1000 staff. The UK operations are entirely based at Summerfield, Kidderminster.

Reporting to the Maintenance & Calibration Manager. Provide first class, flexible support to production requirements and factory services at all times by means of the application of electrical and control/PLC skills in fault-finding/diagnostics, planned preventative maintenance practices and electrical installation.

Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & REPONSIBILITIES

• Comply with SHE and all statutory Safety, Health and Environment requirements.
• Ensuring reliability of onsite Programmable Logical Control Systems.
• Ensure maintenance engineering downtime is accurately logged, monitor repair times, and find new methods / procedures to reduce these utilising our CMMS (computerised maintenance management system)
• To work as part of the maintenance team to ensure a safe and efficient production performance is delivered
• Performing detailed preventive and corrective maintenance activities in accordance with schedules
• Fault diagnosis and rectification on all plant and equipment within the manufacturing facility
• Identifying the root cause of asset faults, improving asset performance and reliability to meet operational objectives
• Provide a fast and efficient response time to any plant breakdowns that occur, whilst ensuring all company procedures and standards are adhered to
  
  

Skills/ Qualifications

EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND

Essential Qualifications

• Recognised electrical qualifications
• Experience of Working with PLC’s (Siemens S7, S5, Mitsubishi, ABB and Eurotherm)
• A Strong PLC programming interrogation background.
• A proven maintenance engineering professional with high standards of electrical and mechanical understanding and competencies
• Ability to work to find root cause of failure in reactive maintenance scenarios, and implement permanent corrective actions
• The ability to read and interpret electrical and mechanical schematics
• Experience with Microsoft office and CMMS (computerised Maintenance management system)
  
  

Desirable Qualifications

• Knowledge and understanding of health and safety processes
• Knowledge of Quality Operating Systems procedures and deliverables
• Understanding of environmental controls and practices
• 18 th Edition BS7671 certificated & 2391/52 inspection and testing qualified
  
  

How To Apply

Please email your CV and motivation letter to: [e-mail]

Please specify your salary expectations as part of the process.

Please note: Obtaining a Security Clearance is a requirement of employment at Roxel UK. The sucessful applicant must have constantly lived in the UK for at least 5 years and have a UK settled staus for secuirty reasons.

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