Senior Automation Engineer

3 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Koru Talent Full time

Operates at the leading edge of industrial automation solutions
- Full spectrum automation implimentation
- Hybrid options available - Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga locations

**You are an automation aficionado, a master creator of clever control systems that deliver safe, functional, flexible and cost-effective solutions.**

Our employment partner knows that the efficiency and reliability of a plant are mission-critical to be competitive. The control system is what makes it all tick. Designing, implementing, and supporting the control system - that’s where you come in.

We need you to partner with our employment partner’s clients, from the simple to the complex, to deliver safe, functional, flexible, and cost-effective solutions. Solutions that are the best fit for every individual business.

Bring your R2-D2 resourcefulness and Sherlock Holmes thoroughness to save the day. Every day.

**About the Senior Automation Engineer role**:

- Reports to the Director of Operations
- Designs low-voltage control systems.
- Develops functional descriptions.
- Develops PLC, IPC, and other software.
- Commissions control systems.
- Supports customers with system breakdowns through fault-finding and diagnostics of control systems.
- Trains customers’ operational and technical staff as relates to control systems.
- Trains and leads junior members of the team.
- Manages assigned projects in relation to budget, time, and quality metrics.
- Works at customer’s site when required for project and maintenance work.
- Occasionally works away from home for periods of time as needed by project requirements.
- Is available for rostered on-call support to customers.

**About you**:

- You hold a tertiary Engineering qualification and have electrical training.
- You have 5+ years of experience in control systems and automation.
- You have serious project engineering chops.
- You have process engineering experience.
- You do code development for PLC, IPC, and HMI/SCADA control machines.
- You do automation of custom production machinery systems.
- You take leadership in the technical direction of projects.
- You are skilled in process automation, plant control, and instrumentation integration.
- You have experience in upgrades and retrofitting of existing machinery.

**About our employment partner**:

- Our employment partner operates at the leading edge of industrial automation solutions.
- They are renowned for the joy they find in their work seeing the positive impact it has on businesses.
- Using cutting-edge software development tools, they provide technologically enhanced and quality industrial engineering solutions to their customers. They are experts in the analysis and identification of areas of improvement to develop a strategic approach to automation journeys.
- They are a talented and flexible team of engineers passionate about industrial automation NZ, Industry 4.0, and transforming their customers’ operations.
- They have offices in Auckland, Hamilton, and Tauranga.

If the sound of this role makes you break into, we’d love to hear from you. If, however, the position is not for you, but you know of someone who’d be great in it, please pass this advertisement to them and encourage them to apply.



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