Programming Engineer

Job description

Provide support for installation, commissioning, start-up & troubleshooting for various control and automation projects.

Responsibilities

• Design Control System Architecture (CSA).
• Design electrical & control panel layout, control schematic drawings and Bill of Material (BOM).
• Design, review and perform safety validation, safety maps, IQ/OQ, documents for installation of new equipment at site.
• Review vendor & engineering documents as per project requirement.
• Provide support for PLC and HMI programming.
• Development and Modification of PLC program.
• Development of SCADA project as per customer needs.
• Integration of Equipment system in the Plant.
• Support Operation team for existing system.
• Work with Project/Engineering team for new system.
• Design feasibility study design basis document and detail engineering technical documents Cable schedule, Device List/ Tag List for new equipment / machine.
• Understand the electrical drawings.
• Perform Yellow lining, IQOQ, troubleshoot electrical circuits.
• Understand the existing control system and provide support to reduce the current losses.
• Design control study / URD (User Required Document) for the PLC & HMI programming.
• Understand and Integrate Different systems in the plant.
• Help the team understand the cause of loss based on historical data.
• Design and review technical documents, such as engineering information, for the fabricator/contractor's activities to be performed in sequence at the site for site clearance and new installation.
• Deliver complex, large-scale projects on time and within the budget in compliance with NEC, NFPA79, OSHA, S88, and PackML Standards.
• Perform multi-discipline and vendor co-ordination for new equipment installation.

Qualifications

10 + Years of Experience.

Required Skills

• PLC, HMI Programming & Networking:
• Mitsubishi GX.
• Schneider EcoStruxure.
• Siemens S7 classic and TIA portal.
• SEW Movitools motion studio.
• Rockwell/Allen Bradley PLC5, PLC5000 and safety.
• Rockwell Software - Studio5000 & RSLogix5000, FTView Machine Edition and Site Edition, Connected Component Workbench.
• SCADA intouch – including management of software licenses and associated upgrade.
• SICK and service logic barcode scanner common knowledge.
• Smartscan lightguards common knowledge.
• Wonderware, Archestra.
• Control Hardware:
• Rockwell PLCs e.g. GuardLogix, ControlLogix, CompactLogix, SLC500, Panel View Plus HMIs, Point I/O, Power Flex 520 Series VFDs, Power Flex 7 Class, Power Flex 4 Class.
• Knowledge of CIMAT operational PLC.
• Communication Networks – Ethernet, Profinet, Profibus, Modbus etc.
• Machine level automation experience, Motion – Kinetix programming, experience with CPG, FMCG customer.
• Electrical & Control Drawing Software – AutoCAD.

Preferred Skills

• Programming Standards:
• Ladder, FBD (Functional Block Diagram).
• PackML (Packing Machine Language).
• Safety PLC Programming.
• Microsoft Tools: Windows 7, Windows 10, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook; VM Ware.
• Machine safety requirements and implementation (safety relays and circuits).
• Strong work ethic and initiative; can plan and execute work with minimal direction. Works well with peers and ‘customers’; collaborative and responsive. Ability to learn faster.
• Manufacturing, Packing, Making, and Facilities experience, including installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Support execution from concept through validation to startup activities.
• Warehouse Management Software Skills.
• RTCIS (including XML message understanding) – inventory control (product management).
• WCS – warehouse control system – equipment control (PLC communications).

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

City of London

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

07-03-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English