Automation Engineer (Intermediate - Senior)

PeopleLogic; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work vehicle

Laptop

Phone

Overtime rates

Training support

Christmas bonus

Away-from-home allowance

Job summary

PeopleLogic is seeking an Automation Engineer (Intermediate-Senior) in Auckland to deliver and lead PLC/HMI/SCADA projects from design to commissioning. You’ll work roughly 50% in the office and 50% on client sites, with a work vehicle for commuting and potential training support.

The role offers a path to project leadership, strong onboarding for electrical registration and CMSE, and opportunities to grow in Ignition and controls platforms, while earning from NZ$90k to NZ$130k plus vehicle and

Qualifications

• 3+ years' hands-on PLC, HMI and SCADA experience.
• Industrial controls projects from start to finish.
• Industrial networking experience.
• Electrical background such as an electrical trade or engineering degree.
• Comfortable working both on site and in the office with NZ driver's licence.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and lead controls projects from design through commissioning.
• Program and commission PLC, HMI and SCADA systems, including drives.
• Develop controls for small machine builds.
• Design and implement industrial networks.
• Create quotes and write functional descriptions.

Skills

PLC/HMI/SCADA

Industrial networking

Electrical/engineering background

Site & office work

Education

Electrical trade or engineering degree

Tools

Siemens PLCs

Rockwell PLCs

Job description

Automation Engineer (Intermediate-Senior)

Auckland

$90k-$130k + Vehicle (work & commute) + Overtime rates + Phone & Laptop

Auckland-based PLC, HMI and SCADA projects, out of town only if you want to. Roughly 50/50 office and site, work vehicle, and training support.

• Implement controls projects, with a path to leading and project managing them
• Strong support for training: electrical registration, CMSE, Ignition and more
• Auckland-based projects, around 50/50 office and site, work vehicle to take home

If you're an Automation Engineer who wants to implement, lead, and project manage entire projects, read on.

You'll work on controls projects from design through to commissioning, covering PLC, HMI, SCADA and drives. Some are small machine builds, others are larger systems integration projects.

This role suits an engineer from an electrical or tertiary background who can deliver controls projects now and wants to lead and project manage them. We’re also open to an intermediate engineer capable of learning the project leadership and project management aspects on the job.

Why you'll love this

Project variety and ownership: Projects typically range in value from $50k to $2.5 million, with a few weeks to a few months of engineering followed by up to a month on site. You'll take on leading and project managing more of them as your experience grows.

Training and career development: This is a company where people are well supported to build their careers. You can get support in so many areas here: electrical registration, CMSE, training on controls platforms like Ignition, project management, electrical design, embedded electronics and machine vision...

A balanced week: The split is roughly 50/50 between the office and client sites. Most clients are in the Auckland region, and out of town work only happens if you want it. Standard hours are 7:30am to 4:00pm, Monday to Friday.

Perks

There are many other benefits too, including:

• Work vehicle for work use and your commute
• Laptop and phone
• Time and a half after 9 hours Monday to Friday and on Saturdays, double time on Sundays
• Away-from-home allowance, with travel, accommodation and meals covered, for out-of-town work
• Tool allowance for computer gear, drives, electronic gadgets etc.
• Christmas bonus
• Social committee that takes on ideas from employees, with regular events, a couple of out-of-town trips a year, and team BBQs

What you'll do

• Project delivery: Implement controls projects from customer requirements through to commissioning, and lead and project manage them as you grow into it
• PLC, HMI and SCADA: Program and commission control systems for machines and plants, including drives. The team mainly works with Siemens and Rockwell PLCs
• Small machine builds: Develop the controls for small machines, including machines the team designs and builds themselves
• Industrial networking: Design and set up the networks that tie control systems together
• Quotes and specifications: Quote to customer requirements and write functional descriptions

What you’ll need

• 3+ years' hands‑on PLC, HMI and SCADA experience
• Industrial Controls project experience from start to finish
• Industrial networking experience
• An electrical or tertiary background, such as an electrical trade or an engineering degree
• Happy working both on site and in the office, with a clean, current NZ driver's licence

Nice to have’s

• Machine vision experience, e.g. programming machine vision algorithms in Python or a similar language
• Building management system (BMS) experience, such as Siemens Desigo CC
• Electrical design experience, such as EPLAN or other electrical CAD
• Project management experience
• Food and beverage indusry experience

About the company

This is an established Auckland engineering business with a long track record of delivering industrial controls projects. Engineers work alongside the electrical designers, panel builders and installers on the same jobs.There's workshop space and a PLC test setup, so you can test code before it goes to site and log in remotely to client sites.

Clients are manufacturers and machine builders across food and beverage, FMCG, water and packaging.

The automation team is collaborative, with experienced engineers who are happy to help on each other's projects. The design office for the automation team is spacious and open plan so colleagues can easily chat.

If you want to deliver projects end to end with a team that backs your development, get in touch.