Graduate Engineer – Electronics Engineer

C-Tech Automation is seeking to expand their mechanical design and development capability, with a Graduate Mechanical Engineer with interests and competencies in design and build as well as an interest in mechatronic systems – oh and food!!

We’d like you to join our rapidly expanding team to support our current and future equipment designs from simple hand-operated manual line-side systems through to complex production equipment.

Job Details

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Full Time (37.5 Hours per Week)

Key Requirements: 2:2 or above BEng degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related discipline.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Project Engineering – Electronic Systems

• Supporting our mechanical and software team, you will be working alongside them to develop the electronic control systems capable of connecting the software to the hardware!
• We would like you to undertake the electrical design of the machines from the incoming power to the 24VDC sensors on our actuators all needs to be designed, ordered, installed and connected in a safe and ordered way.
• We would like you to design our control panels, in-machine mounted back-planes as well as our small control systems like our new IIoT device Plankton.
• We would like you to design the communications networks around our machines. Based on Ethernet connections, at any time we’re using EtherCAT®, ModBUS TCP, TCP/IP and FTP on many of our solutions.
• We’d like you to start small and gain your confidence, so we have a series of small industrial PLC-controlled systems that we have developed ourselves.
• You will be responsible for tracking development, bug-fixing and testing your own designs.
• To make sure you stay grounded we’ll have you building some of the hardware too, as it’s essential you get familiar with sensors, sensing systems, smart cameras, as well as the more mundane issues of cabling and connectivity.
• You’ll be responsible for your own documentation and generating your designs. Currently we use Fusion360 for all our designs, but perhaps you may take us in a different direction!

2. Project Engineering – Control Cabinets

• All our control systems need control cabinets or control back-planes that are both suited to the application and safe, so we would like you to develop your skills in assembly, wiring, and testing of these, meaning you’ll need to undertake 18th Edition training locally.

3. Project Engineering – Safety, CE/UKCA, Risk Assessments and PUWER

• The cornerstone of any good system is one that is both effective and safe. So, we will be sending you on training, so you design with safety and risk-mitigation in mind.
• You will also be responsible for the creation of the system Technical File which will include your calculations, bills-of-materials, as well as risk assessments etc.

4. Sales

• Support C-Tech team in generating commercial revenue by supporting customer visits, attending tradeshows, presenting the C-Tech business, and creating case-studies of significant project work.
• Promote C-Tech through social media platforms as well as generate case studies of your significant work for potential customers to browse.

5. Administration

• Work with C-Tech team in generating commercial proposals including supporting the generation of project quotes and project plans using SCRUM or agile methodology.
• Maintain project files and folders using MS Teams to include up-to-date hardware.
• Use the C-Tech Git to safely store your software, comments, and control versions.
• Work with the C-Tech team to ensure that the office and workshop is professional while maintaining a productive and exciting atmosphere.

About C-Tech

C-Tech is unique, we’re solving automation challenges in the chilled food manufacturing sector by designing and developing novel, simple systems that aim to reduce the sector’s reliance on manual labour. Working in one of the fastest-moving, complex, and dynamic environments, the chilled food sector is an exciting and remarkably difficult challenge. But we’re different again, unlike other small businesses we’re linked to the Seafresh Group, so our biggest client is also part of our ownership structure. This means we’re essentially an on-site R&D facility with free and open access to chilled food manufacturer Blue Earth Foods, who are a top-tier supplier to market-leader Marks and Spencer.

We’re an equal opportunity employer, and we’re keen to change the face of Engineering especially in the Food sector, if you’re interested in food, interested in software Engineering and want freedom to work and be in control of your destiny then C-Tech is the place to be!!

What You Get

All the experience and exposure you can handle. With an array of 3D printers and a well-setup workshop, you will be right at the cutting edge of development working in real-time with the rest of the team and deploying when you’re ready - we don’t hang around!

Technical Approach

We’ve spent the last four years centering on simple, easy-to-use, low-cost machines that make use of off-the-shelf automation components as well as a good mix of 3D printed and machined parts. We make use of Beckhoff PLC software as well as Cognex vision systems and Festo pneumatics, we design, develop, and build all our own equipment as always, the projects we work on have no off-the-shelf solutions.

Your Development

Is key, you’ll get exposure on everything, led by a Chartered Engineer (IET), C-Tech has experience in the professional registration process and can support your professional development from Incorporated through to Chartered Engineer for the IET and IMechE.