Industrial Control Systems Integrator
- Projects or Site Services Automation
- Hamilton Based
The Company
This Hamilton based company is a well-established Industrial Automation Integration company with many existing, well-known, and reputable customers across New Zealand. Teams here are split into design and projects and also site-based maintenance and upgrade services for large manufacturing plants across a variety of industry sectors.
The Roles
This company has a strong workflow, is continuing to grow, and wants to hire Automation Engineers. If this is your background, read on. You will be someone who can think as an engineer, look at the process and equipment to be automated, and convert this process to a well-thought-out and well-structured code for PLC, HMI & SCADA systems.
The Projects Team focuses on larger scale projects whereas the Services Team focuses on providing automation support to key client sites and still does upgrade projects. Your experience and preferences would determine which team could be right for you.
Typically, Automation Engineers in the Services Team are on-call 1 week in 8 or 10. During this time, you would get paid an extra $95 per day just for being on-call. If you work on-call, you get a special hourly rate that is paid a minimum of an hour and a half for any work that you do even if it is only a 10-minute call.
Ideal Skills and Experience:
- Tertiary qualification in Automation, Software, Mechatronics, Electrical, Process Engineering (or similar)
- An engineering mindset – can understand and describe the process of automation
- A Programmer with PLC, SCADA, and HMI coding and configuration experience
- Need to be proficient with at least two major automation platforms i.e. Rockwell/Allen Bradley, Schneider, Siemens, Citect, GE, Omron
- Experience in industrial automation within a relevant sector: i.e. Dairy, Food & Beverage, Energy/Power, General Manufacturing, Water & Wastewater
- FAT, SAT, and Commissioning experience