Controls Engineer

Next Agri-Tech
Birmingham
c. £65,000 pa + Extensive and Competitive Package

The Company

This state-of-the-art Agri-Tech / Bio-Technology business are working with cutting edge equipment, technologies and processes to deliver the best in class and most sustainable food production equipment and processes to the global consumer market. They work with some of the leading distributers and suppliers across the UK and Europe and their facility is purpose built and a true modern engineering showcase and the next of food production process.

This is a career-defining, highly technology role.

You won't just be writing PLC code - you'll be the catalyst that transforms the entire Controls department and enables truly modular, "flat-pack" solutions that can be built in the UK and shipped anywhere in the world (including resource-constrained regions) with minimal on-site engineering skill required.

The Mission:

Own the creation of a best-in-class software roadmap & standardised, modular PLC/HMI/Drive architecture
Drive digitalisation: full simulation modelling & digital twin validation before any code leaves the building
Design systems that slash OPEX for clients through extreme automation and reliability
Lead the shift to repeatable, deskilled global deployment of multi-megawatt Agi-Tech systemsDay-to-day you'll:

Develop PLC/HMI/SCADA code (Siemens TIA Portal & Rockwell essential, others welcome) for highly automated systems
Create modular software blocks, node maps, and reusable libraries
Run simulation & HiL testing to prove code before FAT
Produce FDS, risk assessments, RAMS, and drive hardware standardisation
Manage subcontractors (panel build, site wiring, commissioning) for cost & timeline
Support FAT/SAT and occasional site commissioning/fault-finding
Build the "lessons learnt" culture so we never make the same mistake twiceYou'll thrive here if you have:

5+ years as a Controls/Automation Engineer on complex M&E projects (manufacturing plants, food processing, data centres, pharma, or similar)
Deep PLC programming expertise - Siemens TIA Portal and/or Allen-Bradley Studio 5000
Experience of modular/repeatable automation design and digital twins/simulation
Strong project management - able to run multiple streams and subcontractors
Degree in Electrical/Control Engineering or equivalentThis is the role for the Controls Engineer who wants to look back in 10 years and say "I standardised the way the world now builds this technology".

Strictly confidential - your application comes direct to us as the retained search partner.

Apply and please quote job reference number 10205.

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