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# Software/Controls Engineer

- **Company:** tnasolutions
- **Location:** Birmingham, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £40,553.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Wonderware, Rslogix, Software Engineering, Product Software Implementation Methods, Win CC
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5858385975

## About the Role

* Degree qualified Software or Mechatronics Engineer (or similar discipline)
 * Minimum of 3 years controls experience with some autonomy, in special purpose machine or manufacturing related field
 * Maintenance background is desirable
 * Exposure to the food and packaging industry is desirable but not mandatory
 * Rockwell and Siemens PLC software design & programming
 * Rockwell and Siemens PLC systems and software

 * SCADA software, Wonderware, InTouch
 * HMI Software, Rockwell and Siemens
 * Industrial communication network
 * Experience of safety PLC would be an advantage
 * Technical documentation

Please note - in order to be considered for this role applicants must have permission to work in the UK.

## Description

We have an opportunity for an experienced Controls Engineer, with a software bias, to be responsible for the design and implementation of software systems housed within TNA's packaging and distribution equipment.

Specific Responsibilities

 * Design and Develop control systems in a PLC environment (AB and Siemens)
 * Develop modular software block to protect IP and facilitate rapid deployment
 * Work closely with all departments, ensuring you are a key team member in transitioning new designs through documentation, prototyping, timely production and testing
 * Provide global technical support, maintenance and documentation/document software functionality to customers, on a needs basis
 * Ensure software testing procedures are followed and completed for all software designs/equipment prior to release and record the type of testing e.g. simulation, R&D Machine or Production
 * Provide innovative ideas/technologies in system and software design to ensure TNA's market edge
 * Consult with, and support on site, the installation and commissioning phases of the project to ensure successful and timely completion to the customers' satisfaction.
 * Travel to sites around the globe to commission first of series machines and their software component


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