Automation Engineer

J-Tec Material Handlingis part of the Katoen Natie group of companies. Katoen Natie is a global logistics and applied engineering provider. To optimally serve its customers, the organization is decentralized in business units. Each business unit acts independently and offers its clients tailor made solutions.

J-Tec Material Handling is theprocess engineeringbusiness unit of the group, offering material handling and process engineering solutions to the industry market leaders, in the chemical and food industries all over the world. We design and build turnkey process installations for our customers. Our company always strives to make a difference in terms of creativity, flexibility and performance. We execute both green- and brownfield projects of different sizes with an average implementation time of one to two years.

We are a fast growing company with an international team of more than 270 employees (and counting). We have offices in Belgium, Spain, Thailand and the US.

As an Automation Engineer you are responsible for engineering process control systems for various (inter)national projects. You combine the functional analyses of the project with the programming of PLC’s , HMI panels and Scada systems . You will be part of a dedicated team , where you can have the possibility to act as the functional project lead. If required the automation engineer can attend meetings to discuss the functional analyses. During commissioning, you will work together with the commissioning engineer and electrical engineer to test the entire functionality.

Your profile

• As an Automation Engineer you own a higher technical degree (Bachelor or Master).
• You have minimum 5 years of experience in programming process control systems with Siemens and / or Rockwell. If you are highly motivated but do you not have 5 years of experience yet? Don’t hold back to apply!
• Knowledge of electrical engineering is an asset, electrical drawings in particular.
• Flexible to travel abroad several times a year, for periods of 2 or 3 weeks, depending on the size and complexity of the project.
• Like your future colleagues, you believe in continuous improvement, creative solutions, ownership and teamwork.
• You have good communication skills and speak fluently Dutch and English.
• In the possession of a driver’s licence type B.

Required experience 5 years

We offer

Email your CV and cover letter to Zaineb El Miniti #J-18808-Ljbffr