Control Engineer - #1664679

Vacancy Name Control Engineer

Employment Type Permanent

Country United Kingdom

Location Cardiff

Business Area Operations

Workplace Type Onsite

About Princes The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

Role Description

We have a brand new opportunity at our Cardiff Juice Centre of Excellence for four Controls Engineers to join the team.

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager (with on shift direction from Engineering Team leader).

The role provides plant support on integrated solutions, supporting the Princes Process Control and IT architecture model. The role will cover the practices involved into the wider Group strategy for delivering Automation Control & Instrumentation solutions to the Cardiff Site.

The role will be expected to integrate and maintain key industrial components used in the manufacturing process e.g. sensors, valves, process control systems, Industrial PC’s.

Support will require problem solving at the PLC level to rectify problems and connect to high level systems.

The role will be expected to perform key support activities which reduce reliance on 3 rd party support suppliers.

The role also can be asked to provide support to the Group IT function and the Group Operational systems and teams.

• The shift PLC technical lead’s primary function is to provide breakdown support to the manufacturing operations for PLC control related issues.
• To develop the maintenance and administration and all aspects of the electrical process control systems infrastructure and instrumentation.
• The scope of the role includes all site PLC, HMI, SCADA and Historian software systems along with other programable devices.
• This key role also serves as a site competent person(C2), in electrical systems to guide and support, through close collaboration with all departments.
• The key aims are to have 100% up time of systems and infrastructure, eliminate breakdowns resulting from electrical systems of control.
• As shift PLC technical lead, they will be expected to carry out relevant PPM to electrical systems.
  
  

Duties And Responsibilities

• To ensure that all electrical systems of control are designed and maintained to ensure safe operation. Conducting risk assessments. Attending Process Hazard Analysis studies such as HAZOPs performing LOPA assessments, developing and executing Cause and Effect Safety System validation testing.
• Process control system administration and maintenance.
  
  

Maintenance and administration of all site PLC, HMI, SCADA and Historian software systems, which includes Code backups, Fault finding, Maintenance monitoring, Upgrades and bug fixes, System procedure updates.

• System administration and maintenance.
• Maintenance of site process control communication networks which include:
• Ethernet, ControlNet, Device Net, Modbus, Profibus
• Configuration management - managing and updating network configurations including operating system versions, and network parameters (port, switch, and router settings).
• Fault management - detecting, logging, rectifying issues or faults within the network.
• Competent person for Process Control & Instrumentation Engineering:
• Develop User Requirement Specifications for new/modifications to control and instrumentation systems.
• Training team members and cross functional teams as required to continuously build site capabilities.
• Support Engineering shutdown and weekly improvement meeting
• Establish and manage test rigs/environments.
• To maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards by ensuring all associated policies and procedures are adhered to.
  
  

Key Relationships

Site

• Shift Engineering team leader
• Engineering team
• Asset care Manager
  
  

Principal Responsibilities Development of Solutions

The role will support the implementation of Automation and control systems at the PLC and Device layers within the system architecture.

Safety, Quality & Hygiene

• Undertake duties in a responsible manner giving due consideration to Safety, Environmental & Quality procedures, which form part of the Integrated Management System
• Ensure work undertaken conforms to legislative requirements
• Embrace a culture of safe behaviour and contractor health and safety within the production and engineering areas
• Support and embrace a culture enhancing behavioural awareness to reduce accidents, incidents and near misses
• Specific responsibilities can be found in the Health & Safety Management system
  
  

Communication

• Work closely with Site operational teams
• Working cross functionally to deliver full support for deployed systems
  
  

Manage/Develop People

• Support Engineering team to deliver tasks in a safe and controlled manner.
• Align self and deploy resource appropriately to meet site need.
• Challenge work practices and processes to achieve improved operational performance
• Develop a culture of ownership within the team for the on-going development.
  
  

Experience

Knowledge of SAP, MES, Wonderware.

Knowledge of PLC’s ,Instrumentation and Drives– Preferably Siemens systems.

Ability to modify and test PLC and control systems.

Knowledge of IT architectures for relevant plant industrial networks.

Experience on low voltage and extra low voltage systems

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager (with on shift direction from Engineering Team leader).

The role provides plant support on integrated solutions, supporting the Princes Process Control and IT architecture model. The role will cover the practices involved into the wider Group strategy for delivering Automation Control & Instrumentation solutions to the Cardiff Site.

The role will be expected to integrate and maintain key industrial components used in the manufacturing process e.g. sensors, valves, process control systems, Industrial PC’s.

Support will require problem solving at the PLC level to rectify problems and connect to high level systems.

The role will be expected to perform key support activities which reduce reliance on 3 rd party support suppliers.

The role also can be asked to provide support to the Group IT function and the Group Operational systems and teams.

• The shift PLC technical lead’s primary function is to provide breakdown support to the manufacturing operations for PLC control related issues.
• To develop the maintenance and administration and all aspects of the electrical process control systems infrastructure and instrumentation.
• The scope of the role includes all site PLC, HMI, SCADA and Historian software systems along with other programable devices.
• This key role also serves as a site competent person(C2), in electrical systems to guide and support, through close collaboration with all departments.
• The key aims are to have 100% up time of systems and infrastructure, eliminate breakdowns resulting from electrical systems of control.
• As shift PLC technical lead, they will be expected to carry out relevant PPM to electrical systems.
  
  

Principal Responsibilities Development of Solutions

The role will support the implementation of Automation and control systems at the PLC and Device layers within the system architecture.

Safety, Quality & Hygiene

• Undertake duties in a responsible manner giving due consideration to Safety, Environmental & Quality procedures, which form part of the Integrated Management System
• Ensure work undertaken conforms to legislative requirements
• Embrace a culture of safe behaviour and contractor health and safety within the production and engineering areas
• Support and embrace a culture enhancing behavioural awareness to reduce accidents, incidents and near misses
• Specific responsibilities can be found in the Health & Safety Management system
  
  

Communication

• Work closely with Site operational teams
• Working cross functionally to deliver full support for deployed systems
  
  

Manage/Develop People

• Support Engineering team to deliver tasks in a safe and controlled manner.
• Align self and deploy resource appropriately to meet site need.
• Challenge work practices and processes to achieve improved operational performance
• Develop a culture of ownership within the team for the on-going development.
  
  

Role Requirements

Experience

Knowledge of SAP, MES, Wonderware.

Knowledge of PLC’s ,Instrumentation and Drives– Preferably Siemens systems.

Ability to modify and test PLC and control systems.

Knowledge of IT architectures for relevant plant industrial networks.

Experience on low voltage and extra low voltage systems

Benefits:

• 22 Shift Annual Leave
• 14.5% Pension – 5% employee opt in / 9.5% employer
• Flexible Holiday Option - Buy 5 Additional Days
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
• Critical Illness Cover
• Learning & Development Opportunities
• Potential Corporate Incentive Scheme (company performance based)