Graduate/ Trainee/ Junior Commissioning Engineer

Wright Staff Recruitment Ltd • Full-time • Remote (Worcestershire, Worcestershire, GB) • £25,000 - £40,000 / year • 2d ago

Graduate/ Trainee/ Junior Commissioning Engineer
Location Worcester
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Permanent
Salary £25,000 - £40,000 PA depending on experience
Benefits:
Company pension
Free parking
On-site parking
Cycle to work scheme
Death in service

Job Description
This role is for engineers who want a hands-on career commissioning products and systems within the automotive test industry. No two projects are the same and the engineer will find great job satisfaction in delivering solutions in cutting edge automotive and industrial environments with a variety of customers from F1 teams to heavy duty industrial manufacturers and everything in-between.
The company are looking for engineering graduates (or comparable qualifications) who are keen to learn and travel, working within a wide variety of engineering environments, products and systems. The company will provide a structured training program to develop candidates' skillsets so they can become well rounded engineers.

Job Responsibilities
Checking on site system electrical installations and fault finding as necessary on bespoke, one-off systems
Calibrating and setting up electronic data acquisition, electrical and mechanical systems
Configuring test sequences (to customer specs) within the highly flexible CADET V14 automation software
Working with 3rd party hardware such as inverter drives, fuel systems, safety systems, analysers etc as part of integration into test cells and facilities.
Performing test runs, gathering results
Following commissioning steps and checks
Working with customers to achieve system functionality sign off
Working with the commissioning manager and site managers to produce commissioning time schedules
Provide initial customer training in operation of the supplied system
Undertake customer service calibration, fault finding and rectification visits·
Frequent work in conjunction with the in-house test department
Supporting both customers and overseas company engineers with diagnostics and fault finding (phone, email and remote access)
Fault diagnostics using logged data from customer sites
Working with automation engineers to help design and implement custom control functionality

Suitable candidate
Looking for a self-driven, proactive individual that has good time management skills
Electrical understanding, with ability to follow electrical drawings and diagnose issues. Ideally with a degree in engineering, or other electrical qualification.
Good written and verbal communication skills and able to professionally communicate with clients
Active learner, with a driven attitude. Happy to be hands on and get stuck in as part of the team
Logical thinker with good fault-finding skills to apply engineering principals to real-life problems
Understanding of the automotive industry (engines, battery tech, powertrains etc.) is advantageous, but not essential
Happy to work away from home during the working week as required, with occasional overseas trips of up to 28 days. Typically, 80% site based, with on average 2-3 overseas trips per year of 2-4 weeks at a time. Engineers will spend 75-100 nights away a year. We generally use hotels if client premises are more than 90 minutes from engineer's homes.
Familiarity with Windows operating systems and Microsoft office tools is essential
Experience in programming/software development is advantageous, but not a requirement
Full UK driving licence and able to achieve adequate and appropriate business insurance (generally requires having held a full licence for 1+ years)
Indefinite UK right to work. We cannot provide or support any visa sponsorship unfortunately
Salary: £25,000 - £40,000 PA depending on experience. Structured pay progression with experience, outlined from initial employment
Company car allowance following successful probation completion (generally 6 months). Rate is a company-wide, currently £450 PM
Overtime when working on client sites, above 37.5 hours per week (hours classed as door - door minus lunch) or when overseas
Flexi time when office based. Core hours of 10am - 4pm Monday - Thursday, 10am - 12:00pm Friday. Note, this is a predominantly site-based role; site hours are discussed with customers and project managers on a per project basis. SCP offer flexibility around personal lives when possible, however it is generally expected that engineers will be available to work away Monday - Friday as required.
Site/overnight/travel expenses paid in line with company policy
No weekend working requirements
Career progression into senior commissioning or automation roles

Location
The role is largely client site-based covering facilitates UK wide, with some overseas travel. During probation and initial training engineers will be largely based within our Worcester facility; following probation there will be a requirement for engineers to visit the office to support internal departments, support customer pre-acceptance testing and collect parts/equipment as necessary. As such engineers should be located suitably.
This is a genuine career opportunity for junior engineers to join a prestigious employer of choice that is an industry leader.

Please apply with your CV in the first instance.
Wright Staff are acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.