Automation Engineer

Randox Laboratories continues to develop disruptive innovations within the Diagnostics and Healthcare sector globally. We are proud to have been named the Number 1 company in Northern Ireland, for the second consecutive year in the “Belfast Telegraph Top 100 Companies 2024”. Our staff are at the heart of everything we do and achieve. We have a career opportunity for an Automation Engineer within our Maintenance department. 

What does the Maintenance team do?

The Maintenance Team are responsible for our manufacturing equipment, ensuring downtime is kept to a minimum and productivity is high. By undertaking reactive and preventative maintenance, as well as conditional monitoring and continuous improvement taking ownership of the tasks carried out. The manufacturing equipment ranges from new state of the art Filling and capping machines, freeze driers, freezers, robots, printing and labelling, to bespoke lines and older equipment. Using fault finding skills to identify and rectify equipment faults in a timely fashion recording details and identifying root cause, support in new equipment installations (including validation), and various improvement project. Identifying critical spares, ordering and maintaining stock.

Location: Randox Science Park, 30 Randalstown Rd, Antrim BT41 4FL.
Contract offered: Full-time, Permanent.
Working Hours/Shifts: 40 hours over four days per week: Monday to Thursday.

What does the Automation Engineer role involve?

This role is responsible for the design, service, and installation of PLC/Automation within regulations, along with the validation of existing / new equipment to the relevant standards. This is an extremely varied role that will require you to develop a varied skillset, including:

• Develop design concepts based on user requirements.
• Contribute to the development of functional requirements specification based on user requirement and approved concept designs.
• Develop mechanical designs from concepts to protype and complete system design.
• Working with and alongside multi-disciplinary teams to ensure designs are rigorously tested, verified and validated.
• Identify appropriately specified COTS products for use with a design.
• Liaise with purchasing department in identification and evaluation of suitable suppliers.
• Generate and maintain technical documentation, specifically but not limited to mechanical drawings, work instructions. FMEA/BOM etc.
• Conduct, review and revise FMEA for equipment designs.
• Contribute to risk/hazard analysis for products under development and released.
• Produce report on status of projects/design to senior management.
• Contributing to design change of new and existing products.
• Ensure all systems are designed to high quality to meet compliance and regulatory standard.

Who can apply?
Essential criteria:

• Be qualified to at least degree level in engineering or relevant working experience. 
• Experience with PLC, Robots and Scada.
• Ability to read, interpret and apply information from files, drawings, catalogue, reports, and manuals.
• Ability to identify and design our repeat failures and develop, participate, and manage continuous improvement projects.

Desirable:

• Experience of similar process machinery (Filling, Capping, Labelling and Printing).
• Working knowledge of quality systems.
• Working knowledge of health and safety including COSHH.

This advert may be open for as long as 30 days although we may close the advert early if we receive sufficient applicants to fill the roles.