Senior Automation Engineer

About The Team: As a Senior Automation Engineer you will be the site Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the team, for all controls systems, maintenance engineering, sensors, PLCs, communication protocols, and automation for the site. You will work with the facilities and maintenance teams and colleagues to maintain and repair conveyance, automation and facilities equipment to support operations uptime and improve reliability of our systems. What You Will Be Doing:

• Work in a hands-on manner to actively monitor, fault find and repair systems in order to provide a high level of equipment availability to internal customers.
• Perform troubleshooting of assigned out of service equipment and correct issues, act as an escalation point for lower level technicians, and escalate to leadership and/or vendors as needed for additional troubleshooting.
• Ad hoc preventive maintenance and routine inspections on assigned automation, robotics and control panels.
• Monitoring and ensuring HelloFresh's 3rd party vendors adhere to change control processes
• Leading continuous improvement projects across the engineering department.
• Document all work in the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) and ticketing systems as appropriate.
• Mentor all maintenance personnel in developing appropriate skill sets and knowledge of equipment specializing in automation, controls and robotics.
• Lead root cause analysis of major downtime events.
• Act as a network resource for technical issues and lead network-wide root cause analysis.
• Develop maintenance personnel knowledge on intermediate to advanced automation, controls and robotics.
• Partner with engineering on commissioning of new controls systems.
• Leading and documenting Health and Safety investigations.
• Acting as a proxy for the Engineering Shift Manager as and when required.
Who You Are:
• Experienced in either Automation Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Maintenance Engineering
• Obtained a Mechatronics, Electrical and Electronic, Mechanical, Manufacturing Engineering degree, qualifications or related field of study
• Experience of having worked in a manufacturing and/or production environment such as FMCG
• Experience in PLC controlled automation and automated processes is a must for this position
• In depth experience working with PLCs, HMIs, VFDs etc. to include programming, troubleshooting, repair and maintenance
• Strong computer skills
• Having had plenty of dealings and exposure with material handling, flow and capacity visualization and monitoring
What you will get in return:
• 70% off HelloFresh or Green Chef boxes
• Company pension scheme
• Gym membership
• Bupa private medical insurance (including dental & family cover options)
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Mental health first aiders and an employee assistance programme
• Dog friendly office! (London site only)
• If in the office, enjoy a free breakfast every day
• Eye care scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Group Life Assurance
Location: 1 Holme Lane, Spondon, Derby, DE21 7HW Working Schedule: Sunday to Wednesday - 6am to 6pm - DAYS Next steps: Your application will be reviewed and if successful, a member of the Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch within 2 weeks. You are required to cooperate with HelloFresh in all health and safety matters. You are responsible for ensuring you take reasonable care of your own health, and safety as well as others who may be affected by the work activities you undertake. You must report incidents immediately and actively raise health and safety-related concerns to your Line Manager. If you are currently a HelloFresh employee, please make sure you have discussed your application with your Line Manager.


• Experienced in either Automation Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Maintenance Engineering
• Obtained a Mechatronics, Electrical and Electronic, Mechanical, Manufacturing Engineering degree, qualifications or related field of study
• Experience of having worked in a manufacturing and/or production environment such as FMCG
• Experience in PLC controlled automation and automated processes is a must for this position
• In depth experience working with PLCs, HMIs, VFDs etc. to include programming, troubleshooting, repair and maintenance
• Strong computer skills
• Having had plenty of dealings and exposure with material handling, flow and capacity visualization and monitoring
  
  Company pension scheme
• Gym membership
• Bupa private medical insurance (including dental & family cover options)
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Mental health first aiders and an employee assistance programme
• Dog friendly office! (London site only)
• If in the office, enjoy a free breakfast every day
• Eye care scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Group Life Assurance