Controls Engineer Greater Manchester Special Purpose Machinery - £44-50k uplift for site work Headlines Well established, stable team. Switched on, personable Team Manager to work with, full order book Samuel Frank is recruiting for an experienced Controls Engineer to join a very well established, Greater Manchester based, special purpose machine manufacturer. The successful Controls Engineer will ideally have experience with either/both Mitsubishi or Allen Bradley / Rockwell PLCs. Key aspects of the Controls Engineer role include; Software design & development for control systems including PLCs, field devices, HMIs etc. Controls Engineer will have the ability to program from scratch on either Mitsubishi and/or Allen Bradley / Rockwell PLCs Writing control specification documents, FDS documents, FAT documents, operator manuals etc. Controls Engineer will specify controls hardware requirements PLCs, remote I/O, fieldbus/hardware communications, HMIs etc. Vast majority of software work is done remotely some international travel may be involved The company pays an uplift to Controls Engineers for time spent away from home. They also pay x1.5 if you work on a Saturday and x2.0 if you work on a Sunday. They estimate a split of 70/30 between being based in the office and based on site. 37 hours per week 2pm finish on Fridays flexible start & finish times The clients premises are commutable from the following places Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Denton, Bolton, Bury, Blackburn and Burnley.