Automation Project Engineer
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Job Location:
Basingstoke - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Automation Project Engineer will work with the Automation Sales Managers to help our customers to optimise their in-house material flows to achieve major cost savings. Whilst based from home this role will require a high degree of autonomy and travel mainly in the UK&I but with some European travel for training and to visit factories and reference sites.
We offer:
Accountable for the Portfolio of Projects in the UK&I for STILL and Linde (use of internal reporting tools; eg. Sharepoint)
Engineering & Design
- Support Sales in the offer phase. This includes the validation of the budget cost of PMs Planner Simulations the planning proposed by Sales & SD and review of the scope of the project
- Development of customers and application specific logistic concepts to set up automated guided vehicles (AGV) AMR and any KION Automated solution
- Focus on risk and opportunity management and mitigation plans. Prepare escalation reporting and decision papers to the Sales Directors & Leadership Team
- Analysis and planning of the end to end processes in consideration of complex solution requirements (Product- and service requests)
Communication skills
- Co-ordinate and project manage all parties involved in the bid process to ensure everyone is aware of the level of contribution expected of them and the set deadlines - Liaising with wide variety of internal resources in order to collate relevant information to ensure a high-quality bid.
- Organise and attend bid kick off meetings (handover to Project management & customer realisation)
- Supporting Project Managers post sale
- Technical support of our Logistic-Distribution Engineers regarding AGV / AMR projects for STILL & Linde
- Elaboration and mentoring of the coordination with customers regarding technical and final offers
- Liaising with the factory on special requirements and applications
Market survey
- Develop win themes and USPs
- Conduct local area research develop competitor intelligence and market analysis
- Supporting proof of concept demonstrations
Safety & regulations
- Work with and understand all relevant regulations and ensuring all HSE requirements are met within the proposal
Tasks and Qualifications:
Desirable competencies;
- Bachelor Master or Diploma degree in engineering computer science logistics or similar education. A candidate with the relevant industry experience would be considered
- IT Skill required including Autocad
- Interest in complex technical interrelations
- Experience with industrial or logistic projects preferred
- Good communication skills in English further languages preferred
- Willingness to travel
- International mindset
- Structured and solution-oriented working method
- Full driving licence
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- APIs
- Automotive software
- Test Cases
- Electrical Engineering
- Junit
- Distributed Control Systems
- Testng
- Java
- Test Automation
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Selenium
About Company
We are a leading supplier of forklifts and warehouse equipment as well as automation technology and software solutions for the optimization of supply chains.
