Automation Support Engineer

Ready to Rise to the Top?

Our Electrical & Automation Support Engineer is a key site-based role where you’ll combine your electrical engineering expertise with automation and controls knowledge to improve asset reliability, reduce downtime and develop our automation capability.

How You'll Make an Impact

You’ll work across reactive support, continuous improvement and site projects, giving you the opportunity to get involved with everything from PLC fault-finding and SCADA systems to automation upgrades and reliability improvements.

What you’ll be doing:

• Providing specialist electrical and automation support, including breakdown fault-finding and structured problem-solving.
• Identifying and delivering improvements that increase reliability, efficiency and equipment performance.
• Supporting minor automation CAPEX projects and wider site projects involving controls and automation linked with obsolescence and new technology.
• Working with Siemens S7 and Allen-Bradley PLC systems, SCADA and INTOUCH applications.
• Supporting industrial networks, electrical panels, controls and automation infrastructure.
• Maintaining automation documentation, software version control and site standards.
• Supporting automation health checks, panel risk assessments and obsolescence plans.
• Using performance data to identify opportunities to improve production efficiency, quality and reliability.

What You’ll Bring

• An Electrical or Mechanical Engineering qualification, ideally alongside a recognised apprenticeship.
• A strong electrical bias with hands-on fault-finding experience.
• Experience diagnosing faults within electrical panels and during breakdown situations.
• Knowledge of Siemens S7 and Allen-Bradley PLC programming.
• Understanding of industrial networking.
• A practical, improvement-focused approach to engineering.

No Hard Graft Goes Unnoticed

You'll benefit from a competitive reward package including:

• Annual pay reviews
• Bonus scheme of up to 10%
• 25 days’ annual leave, increasing with service
• Option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ annual leave
• Private medical healthcare (single)
• Pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and family leave policies
• Enhanced bereavement policy
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to our employee discount platform, offering discounts across hundreds of retailers online and in-storeOp

Pour in the Passion. Love the Result.

If you an electrically biased engineer with a passion for automation, problem-solving and making machinery perform at its best whilst being the subject matter expert, we'd love to hear from you. Whether this is a career move you've been working towards or an opportunity you've discovered along the way, this could be your next step.

For a full Job Description or any informal queries, please contact Kirsty Lewis, TA Partner –

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