The role will involve becoming a member of the Kaon Automation controls team, responsible for the design and implementation of all controls aspects on automated equipment.

Duties to include:

• Primarily work in a supporting role to controls engineers
• Develop or assist control program development for machine stations / areas as assigned by the control engineers.
• Develop machine control programs (PLC/HMI/etc) for repeats, upgrades and smaller projects where the graduate engineer is assigned direct project responsibility.
• Develop Eplan electrical drawings and interface with suppliers to get quotations where required.
• Ensure accurate bills of materials are developed on all assigned projects and ensure orders are raised on the purchasing system in a timely fashion to support project schedules.
• Communicate clearly with product builders to ensure machine builds take place accurately and efficiently.
• Develop “as built” drawings ensuring that customer drawings reflect as built at all times.
• Create customer documentation packages to meet EU standards (drawings, manuals, training documents, and CE certs, etc) as required to match customer URS requirements at machine handover.
• Be available to build, debug or carry out factory acceptance tests on projects as required by Kaon Automation managers or mechanical engineers

Educational, Experience, Skills & Competencies:

• Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline
• Good communication skills are essential to and it is your responsibility to ensure all project stakeholders you are dealing with are up to date with work progress daily.
• Ability to take responsibility to ensure all project stakeholders are up to date with work progress daily
• Good organisation skills
• Good time management skills, able to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Self-starter with good attention to detail
• Current driving licence and able to travel as required