Controls Engineer | Software Engineer | Automation Engineer | Robot
Connect 4 are working with a globally recognised company that turn over £1.5 Billion a year. They are now recruiting an experienced Controls Engineer | Software Engineer | Automation Engineer to help with the company’s recent expansion.
As an Controls Engineer | Software Engineer | Automation Engineer you will work as part of a team ensuring the delivery of the projects to the customer. As part of your duties you will clarify what is required from the customer, produce the design documents, liaising with customer to ensure delivery time is met and customer satisfaction. The role will involve travelling to and working from customer sites.
The key skills needed for this position will be working with PLC, Robotics, Welding, Riveting, B&R, Controls, Automation, Automotive.
The key skills needed
PLC – S7, Omron, Mitsubishi or B&R
Create new coding and develop exiting coding
Robotics
Automotive
Welding
Riveting
Controls
Automation
Type: Contract
Location: West Midlands
Rate: £30-40 per hour or £40,000 – £50,000pa
Process Engineer | Manufacturing Engineer
Connect 4 are working with a globally recognised company that turn over £1.5 Billion a year. The company has recently opened a vacancy for a Process engineer to support the project manager through the definition of detailed and accurate processes based on customer product drawings and specifications. Duties would include providing detailed analysis and design of assembly processes that accurately reflect product drawings, specifications and manufacturing considerations, including Automation Process Engineer, Good working knowledge of AutoCAD, Knowledge of joining methods, Good working knowledge of Catia V5 and tool design, Understanding of RobCad and complete cell design, Good general level of computer literacy,
– Method of assembly, i.e. manual vs. automation process choice, flow, throughput optimization, tooling and handling
– Recommendation of location strategy
– Recommendation of best practices or alternative processes
– Assignment of process synthetics to actions so as to establish process cycle times
Key skills needed:
- Automation Process Engineer
- Good working knowledge of AutoCAD
- Knowledge of joining methods
- Good working knowledge of Catia V5 and tool design
- Understanding of RobCad and complete cell design
- Good general level of computer literacy
Type: Long term Contract
Rate: £30 – £40 ph
Location: West Midlands
Layout Engineer | Facility Engineer | Facilities Engineer
Connect 4 are working with a globally recognised company that turn over £1.5 Billion a year. They are now recruiting a layout engineer to join the expanding team. As a layout engineer you’ll be responsible to provide layout technical solution within the Customers timing, cost constraints and expectations, prepare timely and accurate technical specifications to customer and product requirements, effectively interact with the Process, Design and RobCad teams so as to create and maintain accurate Plant Layout drawings, taking lean manufacturing principles into account.
Key Skills needed:
Layout Engineer | Facility Engineer | Facilities Engineer
Experience working with AutoCAD, Factory CAD and Vision MockUp
Knowledge of Catia V5
Good understanding of factory simulation techniques
Good working knowledge of MS Project
Awareness of lean manufacturing methodologies
Type: Long Term Contract
Rate: £30 – £40 ph
Location: Rugby
Controls Project Engineer | Project Engineer | Controls
Connect 4 are working with a company that has recently won prestigious projects in the automotive sector, including an £80million project in the North West.
Because of the growth of the business they are seeking a highly skilled and motivated person who will be responsible for managing a Controls team and coordinate with sales, estimating, mechanical and Controls TL’s and installation and commissioning team.
- Understand the requirements for Controls Hardware, Fluids, Software design, the interface requirements with equipment needs, to produce an estimate that supports the proposed solutions.
- Develop relationships with the Customer to ensure they are confident with technical solutions, costs & resource support / strategy to deliver the project.
- Manage a team of Controls engineers and respective TL’s supporting the delivery of Control System projects.
- Demonstrate Lessons learnt are being followed up.
- At all times be aware of the project status including timing and scope changes.
- Be able to support all Controls, robotic and joining technical issues.
- Be able to support and coordinate the design and commissioning of PLC / Safety software, robot programming and joining technology activities if required.
- Visit the Customer to ensure what was agreed is being delivered & understand new project work strategies.
- Support Customer changes with cost & technical solutions.
- Be prepared to support the controls teams on the customers sites as required to deliver the project within the agreed restraints.
- Close the project in a timely manner including producing all required documentation.
- Complete Systems training to the customer if required.
- Develop and manage Budget KPI trackers including Actual and CTC activity, maintaining hours and cost control of all elements of Controls deliverables.
- Develop, instruct and monitor progress and resources in all areas of Controls deliverables to ensure on time delivery and quality.
- Manage Quality Assurance process, checklists, milestone events and sign offs.
Person / Experience Required
- Must have worked on Industrial Automation solutions preferably within the BIW/PWT sectors
- Proven background and history within project coordination, delivery, technical leadership and equipment commissioning.
- Be conversant and experienced with PLC & Robotic Systems
- Be conversant and experienced with Motion Control Systems.
- Be conversant with Microsoft main stream software packages that must include MS Project.
- Strong communication skills at all levels.
- Demonstrable experience of problem solving & implementation of countermeasures.
- Be prepared if required to work within our Sectors of the Company’s organization to support International projects and use of common standards.
Qualifications
- Minimum HNC in Electrical Engineering and have an appreciation of Mechanical / Robotic engineering.
- Training qualification to support PLC programming.
- Experience of main stream joining technologies, such as spot welding, riveting and sealant
- Significant customer site working experience.
- Formal project management qualifications / experience preferred
Type: Contract
Duration: Ongoing
Location: Midlands
Rate: £30-£40ph
Health & Safety Advisor | H&S Advisor | Nebosh
Connect 4 are working with a company that has recently won prestigious projects in the automotive sector, including an £80million project in the North West.
Because of the growth of the business they are seeking a highly skilled and motivated person who will be responsible for the Health and safety on an automotive site in Halewood.
Being the Health and Safety advisor, you will be required to communicate between the client and main contractor on site, ensuring the safety on site is kept to a high standard whilst maintaining good relationships with everyone to improve working safety.
Key Skills:
Health and Safety Cert Nebosh or equivalent
Automotive experience
RAMs
Risk Assessments
Type: Contract
Duration: Ongoing
Location: Midlands
Rate: £19-£25ph
Mechanical Fitter | Automotive | Robotics
Connect 4 are seeking skilled Mechanical Fitters based in the Sunderland area. Being a professional Mechanical Fitter, you would need to have skills including Robotics, Automotive, Mechanical Fitting and Mechanical Qualification City & Guilds or apprentice.
Key Skills:
Mechanical Fitter
Robotics
Automotive
Mechanical Fitting
Mechanical qualification City & Guilds or apprentice
Location: Sunderland
Type: Contract
Rate: £12.50 -£15 ph
Manufacturing Engineer | Mechanical technician | Toolmaker | Robotics | Contract
We are currently hiring for a globally recognised company based in the midlands for a Manufacturing Engineer | Mechanical technician | Toolmaker to join a leading project in the Automotive industry worth £80million.
Being the skilled Manufacturing Engineer | Mechanical technician | Toolmaker you will be expected to have a high level of ability and experience with jigs, fixtures, hydraulics, pneumatics and tooling.
Key skills:
Manufacturing Engineer | Mechanical technician | Toolmaker
Conveyors
Hydraulics,
Pneumatics
Robotics
Jigs
Fixtures
Welding and
Tooling
Contract
Type: Contract
Rate: Negotiable
Robot Programmer | Fanuc | Programming | Robot
Connect 4 are working with a globally recognised company that turn over £1.5 Billion a year. The company has recently invested in the North East by building a new facility that needs a skilled robot programmer to help with the programming of Fanuc robots within the automotive/PWT/Powertrain industry specifically looking at Robot Programming within powertrain.
Key Skills Needed:
Robot Programmer
Experience within robot programming
Experience with Fanuc robots
Experience with powertrain (beneficial but not essential)
Automotive (beneficial but not essential)
Type: Contract
Rate: £35 per hour (negotiable)
Location: Sunderland
Proposal & Estimating | Contract | Manufacturing
Connect 4 are seeking a professional Proposals / Estimating engineer to help with the growth of a globally recognised company that have recently won large scale projects in the Midlands area.
Being the Proposals / Estimating engineer you will be preparing proposals and estimating for the projects, this will be preparing documents, attend meetings, gather and develop proposal documentation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Receipt of formal Enquiries (RFQs) from potential customers, promptly and accurately analysing the base requirements
- Convene Enquiry Review Meetings involving all appropriate personnel in order to support bid/no bid decisions
- To effectively develop a base Proposal and documentation ensuring that the outputs of other contributors are incorporated in the appropriate format into the Proposal document
- To provide timely and effective assistance in the preparation of commercial forecasts and budgetary information
- To ensure that the tasks necessary for the preparation of the associated proposal are properly apportioned and that these tasks are undertaken with due regard for the date of submission
- To provide timely and effective assistance in the preparation of the Estimate associated with the RFQ as required, including preparing and issuing the appropriate technical and commercial enquiries, as well as liaising with sub-suppliers in order to obtain sub-contract prices as required
- To either prepare or support the preparation of the final documentation for authorisation of the project internally and for submission to the client, and accurately maintain all necessary internal records relating to proposals, estimated costs, supporting documentation and drawings, including details of orders acquired as a result of proposals as well as those received as variations to existing orders
- To provide effective assistance with liaison with the potential customer at all stages of the Proposals process
- Upon receipt of a customer order, to collate all necessary technical and commercial data, to convene the “Sales Handover” meeting and to participate in the cascading of data to Project Team personnel
- Correct reporting and maintenance of files, folders and other records associated with commercial activities
Requirements
- Formal presentation skills and computer literacy
- Report writing
- BIW manufacturing methods and processes and costings
- Understanding of project costs – design, management, installation, etc.
- Understanding of new technologies and methods
- Good level of numeracy and literacy
Location: Rugby
Type: Contract
Duration: Ongoing
Ref: VR/03214/JB
Controls Engineer | Controls | Automation Engineer
We are seeking an experienced and skilled controls engineer to help with the running of a automation system. The position will require being a specialist in PLC’s, Controls Systems, Coding, Automation systems and speaking with other departments.
Key Skills needed:
PLC’s
Controls Systems
Coding
Automation systems
Speaking with other departments
Location: Midlands
Rate: £40,000 – £50,000 + competitive package
