Software and Controls Engineer

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Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday Days based role

Salary: up to £70,000 per annum depending on experience and skills

Benefits include: profit related bonus, 5 weeks of annual leave (opportunity to buy more), award winning pension scheme and benefits for you and your family.

Location: Brimsdown, North London

Accessible from: M25 (15 mins), Brimsdown Overground (10 mins walk), Tottenham Hale & Liverpool Street Station

Are you a Software Controls Engineer, Automation Engineer or an Electrical Engineer with a passion for automation and improving plant performance? Due to retirement, we have an exciting opportunity for a Software Controls/Automation Engineer. Working in a day-based role as part of a highly skilled and well-established engineering team, you'll be driven and skilled at both delivering automation improvement solutions and in finding and rectifying faults on plc-controlled equipment and networks.

As the UK's No.1 Bakery Brand and ranked in the top 5 of The Grocer's Top 100 list of Britain's Biggest Brands, Warburtons is a name you can be proud of. We've been baking since 1876 and remain a fifth-generation family business with the sixth generation now part of our journey.

Warburtons is built on strong values, a commitment to quality, and pride in everything we do.

At our Enfield site, you'll join around 500 colleagues and work across 5 operating plants - all within a culture that values teamwork, development, and innovation.

Now is a great time to join a business that's thriving, evolving, and investing in the future.

You'll be working in collaboration with our existing Software and Controls Engineers to maintain all software, hardware infrastructure and control systems. You'll also identify and complete continuous improvement projects to increase plant efficiency, reduce downtime and save energy and associated costs.

Your work will focus on improving plant performance and efficiency, supporting in breakdown resolution followed by leading the investigation into route cause analysis (RCA) to prevent future occurrences. You'll enjoy the variety of a manufacturing environment and be keen to get involved in other work such as safety teams and improvement initiatives.

You'll be encouraged and supported to foster new ideas and perspectives whilst driving Ellen ; we promote a culture of continuous improvement whilst working on a changing approach to reliability centred maintenance in a highly automated production facility.

• Requirement to ensure knowledge of latest technologies and practices are continually updated with opportunities identified to optimise manufacturing processes
• Safety - Adherence to relevant safety standard across all activities (including external contractors). Ensure plant controls are safe to operate, maintain and personnel; ; yes.
• Through effective software and hardware management processes, supports and manages site implementation of a Business led engineering reliability strategy.
• Support the development of site revenue and capital budgets, whilst identifying and leading the execution of relevant capital projects.
• Drive a proactive Engineering Continuous Improvement culture cross-functionally. Through contributing to the improvement and development of manufacturing hardware & software activities
• Training and coaching of Engineers to an agreed working knowledge in PLC / control systems to ensure they have the required competency and capability to support bakery performance
• Ensure supplier contract content & supplier relationship is maintained, and supplier effectiveness is reviewed.
• You'll have a strong drive to identify opportunities for equipment improvement using plant-based automation and related solutions to help improve efficiency and performance.
• Experience in fault finding and maintaining existing control systems, preferably with Allen Bradley (Rockwell) platforms (RSLogix500, Logix5000 etc.)
• Experience of software development and programming languages including ladder logic
• Knowledge of communication protocols and networks
• Strong electrical knowledge and understanding of control related systems
• Knowledge and experience of project management
• Knowledge / awareness ਤ of functional safety
• Proven experience of improvements resulting in a reduction of breakdowns or increased efficiency cruelty.
• Formal electrical automation training with an awareness of process and mechanical engineering.

Last but by no means least, you'll want to know what your breads worth.

• A slice of the annual profits dato; (discretionary profit share)
• Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement, we'll give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave
• Award winning pension scheme with company contributions
• Life assuranceProducts you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our მოძრ Extra Dough website
• Continued investment in your personal development
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
• Support for your health деф wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service
• Access to 24-hour virtual GP through our Help at Hand App which also includes counselling and life coaching sessions.
• Free on-site parking
• Canteen
• Cycle to work scheme
• Payroll giving scheme

Weivier andOtro difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical club ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.