Senior Automation Engineer | Elton | Permanent | £48,000 - £58,000
As a Senior Automation Engineer, you'll be the technical authority behind a highly advanced automated warehouse, shaping the strategy, standards and future of its control systems. This is a business‑critical position with real influence: leading major CAPEX projects, driving large‑scale automation upgrades and solving complex engineering challenges that go beyond routine fixes – especially where legacy or obsolete equipment demands innovative thinking.
You’ll operate with a high level of autonomy, setting safety and control standards while guiding both internal engineering teams and external contractors through critical commissioning phases. Your expertise will be key to ensuring seamless operations and minimal downtime in a fast‑paced, technology‑driven environment. If you're motivated by ownership, technical leadership and the chance to engineer impactful solutions at scale, this role puts you right at the center of it.
The Key Requirements
- Lead delivery of large‑scale automation CAPEX projects, coordinating technical execution and minimising downtime during complex outages.
- Define and develop solutions for obsolescence challenges, building robust technical cases to support capital investment.
- Oversee OEM and supplier specifications, ensuring cost‑effective, compliant, and reliable automation systems.
- Act as the senior technical escalation point, resolving complex PLC and control system faults to protect operations and service levels.
- Design and implement bespoke solutions for critical legacy equipment, maintaining high‑speed operational performance.
- Lead engineering risk assessments and safety system design, with authority to stop unsafe operations when required.
- Supervise contractors during commissioning, ensuring strict adherence to engineering and safety standards.
- Mentor and lead the engineering team, driving performance and technical excellence.
- Annual leave package
- Free onsite gym for all employees
- MyBenefits Reward Platform with 100s of discounts at restaurants and retailers
- Employee Well‑being benefits such as the Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme where the company contributes up to a max 7%
- Life cover at 3 times your annual salary
- Subsidised onsite staff restaurant
- Free parking onsite
- Salary sacrifice Electric car scheme
- Subsidised onsite electric car charging
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhance maternity and paternity leave
- Health cash plan
- Optional Private Medical Insurance
- Optional critical illness cover
- Social club
Encirc is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Every applicant will be evaluated according to skills regardless of age, gender, identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or religion.
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