Controls and Automation Engineer

Location South Dublin
Discipline: Technical and Engineering
Job type: Permanent
Salary: €42000 Neg
Contact name: Kevin Heffernan

Contact email: kevin@trentrec.ie
Job ref: TR00299
Published: 1 day ago
Startdate: ASAP

​The Client is a well-funded, high-tech, SME based in South County Dublin Ireland. With the launch of its first-generation product the company is targeting a large niche global market of disease and drug research organisations that is estimated to grow to €1 billion in annual revenues within ten years. Since their formation, they have won numerous national and EU awards for their technology and business proposition. They are now seeking to grow their organisation with the recruitment of an Instrumentation Engineer who has the ambition to grow their career as the company grows.

They are seeking to immediately hire a Controls and Automation Engineer to join their product development team, based in Dublin. Successful candidates will be operating and contributing to the ongoing development of complex systems as part of the product development team and may be involved in the installation and commissioning of the product at customer sites around the world in the future. You are a multi disciplined team player with a dynamic hands on attitude. The role involves:

       Instrumentation integration.

       Bench testing components.

       System documentation.

       Experimental design and set-up.

       System construction and testing.

       System debugging and troubleshooting.

       Light data analysis.

 

Applicants will be qualified to a bachelor degree level or equivalent in automation engineering, electronic engineering or related discipline and will have three years of relevant experience. Applicants Should have experience in the following areas:

       Experience wiring and testing instrumentation.

       Strong problem solving abilities.

       Hands-on experience with complex systems.

       Strong communication skills.

 

In addition any exposure tp the following would be great.

       PLCs.

       Motion Control.

       Microcontroller experience.

       LabVIEW.

       Solidworks Electrical.

 

 

This is a great opportunity for an Engineer who wants to contributed to bleeding edge product design with three years plus experience to join an organisation that has a unique product and is on the cusp of rapid market growth.