Controls Engineer

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Controls Engineer to enhance maintenance support at their London site. This role emphasizes a hands-on approach, requiring the candidate to spend significant time on the shop floor, ensuring proactive maintenance and fostering relationships with production teams. The successful candidate will possess strong mechanical and electrical skills, including PLC programming and fault finding. Join a company dedicated to continuous improvement and innovation in the bakery sector, where your expertise will play a crucial role in optimizing plant performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering background with knowledge of Control, Automation, and Safety Systems.
• Relevant qualification or comparable industrial experience required.

Responsibilities

• Provide first-class maintenance support and ensure timely completion of tasks.
• Participate in lean initiatives and maintain compliance with engineering data systems.

Skills

Mechanical Skills

Electrical Skills

Root Cause Analysis

Continuous Improvement Mindset

Lean Initiatives

Education

Degree in Engineering

HND in Engineering

Tools

Siemens S7

PLC Programming

HMI & SCADA Systems

Siemens TIA Portal

Rockwell Platforms

Job description

Mission

Our story starts in France in the 1980s, when we created the first ever quick-frozen part-baked baguette. Since then, Délifrance has continuously developed bakery, patisserie, and savoury products for foodservice providers, retailers, and bakers. Délifrance is an equal-opportunity employer.

We are looking for a Controls Engineer to join us at our Southall site in West London. The successful candidate will be highly skilled, motivated, focused on continuous improvement, and responsible for delivering first-class maintenance support to the factory.

The role

• Display a clear shop floor focus – spend 95% of time on the shop floor building relationships with production and seeking issues before they arise.
• Ensure all reactive and proactive maintenance is completed ‘Right First Time’ (RFT), in a timely manner, following quality and HSE guidelines.
• Mechanical skills include understanding power transmission systems, product manufacturing, transport systems, and assisting in in-house fabrication works (milling, welding, etc.).
• Electrical skills include fault finding of electrical systems up to PLC level, with Siemens S7 experience preferred. Ability to understand electrical diagrams is essential.
• Fault finding and programming of robotics including Kuka and Fanuc systems.
• If a fix is not possible, raise work orders and hand over the temporary fix to the next shift and engineering manager.
• Participate actively in lean initiatives including TPM.
• Maintain a continuous improvement mindset to enhance plant performance and reliability.
• Ensure full compliance with all engineering data systems.
• Demonstrate root cause analysis skills and a solid fault-finding process on electrical and mechanical systems.
• Work independently, making calculated decisions based on analysis.
• Work flexible hours to meet production and business needs.
• Support training of new staff.
• Organize contractors, ensuring health & safety requirements are fully met in line with projects.

Formation / Compétences :

• Strong engineering background with thorough knowledge of Control, Automation, and Safety Systems and equipment.
• Relevant qualification (degree/HND) or comparable industrial experience.
• Experience in:
• Design of control & automation systems.
• Programming of PLC, HMI & SCADA systems.
• Commissioning, testing, and client support of industrial control systems.
• Involvement throughout project lifecycle, from design to documentation.
• High competence with IT systems and tools.
• Experience with Siemens TIA Portal / Unified (preferred).
• Experience with Rockwell platforms.
• Experience configuring & commissioning Variable Speed Drives (Siemens).

Informations complémentaires :

Délifrance is committed to equality of opportunity and inclusion of all diversities within the company.