Electricals & Controls Engineer

Role: Controls Engineer
Location: East London
Shift Pattern: Days
Salary: £60,000

Synergi are looking for a Controls Engineer to work for a leading food manufacturer in East London with strong electrical skills. You will be responsible for control systems within workshops, plant rooms and production environments. Your primary goal will be to ensure that processes and systems operate efficiently, safely, and reliably.

Duties would include:

Health & Safety

Meet all personal and role responsibilities as required under the company health and safety at work policy


Machinery & Procedures

Display a clear shop floor focus – 95% time on the shop floor building relationships with production seeking issues before they arise. Using your dual skilled approach, ensure all reactive and proactive maintenance is completed ‘Right First Time’ (RFT) and in a timely manner Support the Shift Engineers in controls & electrical fault diagnosis and breakdown repairs of process equipment, bakery manufacturing plant, packaging equipment and site services, supervising major works when required.


Experience and Skills will include:

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 production performance Drive a proactive Engineering Continuous Improvement culture cross-functionally. Through contributing to the improvement and development of manufacturing hardware & software activities Ensure supplier contract content & supplier relationship is maintained, and supplier effectiveness is reviewed.

Electrical skills will include a full diagnostic ability in fault finding of all electrical systems up to and including PLC level, with experience of Siemens S7 preferred Full ability to understand electrical diagrams is a necessity.


Overtime and call out rates may be applicable
25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

If this role sounds like you or someone you know contact us by applying here.


  • Location: East London, England
  • Salary: Up to £60000.00 per annum
  • Type: Permanent
  • Recruiter: Synergi Search & Select Ltd
  • Posted: 23-Sep-2024
  • Posted on: careers4a.com