About the company

With more than 120 colleagues worldwide, we design and produce high-end solar simulators for the global solar energy sector. They are used by the world’s largest manufacturers of solar panels and leading R&D laboratories to ensure the quality of their panels. We ensure that they can be confident in what they produce. We are precise, resourceful and persistent. Solar energy is growing rapidly worldwide and is now even expanding strongly into the space industry! To support this growth, we want to expand our team with a PLC Engineer.

What you will do:

Examples of a working day as a Control Systems (PLC) Engineer:

• Designing new functionalities and further developing existing systems in the PLC of our solar simulators

• Collaborating with software engineers to design a user-friendly HMI for controlling the machines

• Providing support (remote or on-site) to the service team and customers during commissioning, updates and PLC troubleshooting

• Testing the control system and solving issues together with technicians in our production environment

• Travelling to a customer to install a new solar simulator (only if you enjoy doing this)

• The main responsibilities are designing, programming/configuring, testing, debugging and commissioning control applications for our solar simulators.

  
  

Requirements

• Developing control systems

• Hands-on work with our solar simulators

• Solving problems and understanding how the solar simulators are used

• Learning new things and being inventive

• Working with an international team of colleagues and customers

  
  

What you bring:

• More than 5 years of experience as a PLC engineer

• Experience with Beckhoff (TwinCAT) or Allen-Bradley or Siemens. Experience with programming in ST (Structured Text) / OOP (Object-Oriented Programming)

• Basic knowledge of electrical measurement/troubleshooting

• Ability to take ownership of projects from start to finish within your discipline

• Aligning priorities with management, customer service and sales teams

  
  

One or more of the following skills are a plus:

• More than 10 years of experience as a PLC engineer

• Experience in a lead engineer role, including managing junior developers

• Experience designing control cabinets and drawing electrical schematics

• Experience with wiring, testing and troubleshooting electrical systems

• Experience with various automation protocols, for example OPC, Modbus

• Experience designing control systems in a production environment

• Experience with HMI UI design

• Experience with structured troubleshooting

What we offer you:

• A good salary

• An annual bonus if the company makes a profit

• Training budget

• Travel allowance (€0.23 per km or reimbursement of public transport costs)

• A good pension plan for your retirement, with 2 extra modules (disability and survivor benefits)

• 25 vacation days with the option to buy additional days

• A shared lunch in our canteen at a set table

• After a fixed-term contract, the intention to extend. Eternal Sun likes to invest in development and growth

If you think this sounds like a fit - Apply NOW!