Controls Engineer
Caerphilly, Caerphilly County Borough
Established in 1966, Nuaire is a UK based ventilation solutions provider designing and manufacturing products for the domestic, commercial, and industrial construction sectors. Our state-of-the-art facilities in Caerphilly operate with minimal impact on the environment, driven by ambitious targets to drive forward green manufacturing practices.
Our exceptional teams apply their first-class technical, customer service and manufacturing expertise to understand our customers’ needs and solve today’s ventilation challenges. Our loyal and highly skilled workforce are key to our success in delivering clean air, everywhere.
Now part of the Genuit Groups’ Climate Management Solutions (CMS) business unit, Nuaire has ambitious growth plans.
The Role
We're looking for an experience electrically biased Controls Systems Engineer with expertise in electrical systems design and MATLAB/Simulink to join our New Product Development team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on innovative projects. As a key member of the project team, you'll design, optimise, and maintain electro-mechanical systems on PLC and microcontroller platforms. Research, modelling, and design, system simulations and optimisation are fundamental to this role. Your excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and effective communication and collaboration skills will enable you to succeed in this role.
Working hours: 37 hours per week, Monday-Friday.
Working style: Hybrid. 2 work from home days a week
Responsibilities
Design and develop new products which are safe, legal and compliant while also striving to deliver best-in-class performance.
Utilise the teams project management methodology to work collaboratively with the team on projects from start to completion and always adhere to established and documented new product introduction processes.
Provide support and technical expertise to ensure existing product ranges remain compliant, updating them accordingly where necessary.
Design of Experiment, systems characterisation, design, modelling, simulation and optimisation in Matlab/Simulink.
Creation and maintenance of all technical product documentation; including items such as CAE models, costing data, technical construction files, bills of materials, technical specifications, test data etc.
Maintain currency of knowledge with all mandatory legislation, relevant codes of practice and appropriate building regulations which are relevant to activities that Nuaire undertakes.
Ongoing review and optimisation of product designs to identify and implement cost savings and performance improvements. This includes keeping up to date with core industry technologies and advancements.
Innovating and optimising control systems for new and existing products
Technically support internal and external customers (Some occasional visits to customer sites in the UK and overseas may be required).
The Person
Master or PhD qualified in Electrical or Controls Engineering or a similar discipline with focus on electrical control systems design.
Proficient in electrical systems design
Proficient in microcontroller, PLC, & HMI programming
Proficient using AutoCAD Electrical to complement a thorough knowledge of electrical design and concepts including architecture and systems design, routing, etc.
Evidence of experience working in a similar engineering or technical design role.
Evidence of previously delivering high quality projects on time and within budgeted cost.
Experience with creating wiring drawings and systems/architecture drawings.
Working knowledge of Harmonised standards and European directives for safe, legal and compliant product design.
Ability to work collaboratively within a muti-disciplinary team and independently using own initiative.
Innovative in thinking with the ability to effectively communicate new ideas with justification from first principles.
Able to build good working relationships with colleagues and customers.
Good organisation and time management skills.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
Experience of IT packages including a good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel or equivalent.
The Benefits
25 days holiday
Pension contribution matched up to 8%
Life Assurance 3x base salary
Genuit sharesave scheme £45000/annum