Job Description
Our client is a specialist systems integrator with niche expertise in process automation for the beverage industry. With a strong and tight-knit team, they deliver turnkey automation and digitalisation solutions that optimise the plant systems for major blue-chip end customers. Proud of the reputation that they've built and with a genuinely collaborative culture, you're trusted to manage your own work and individual contributions are visible and valued. If you're currently in a larger integrator where your work disappears into someone else's spreadsheet, this will feel refreshingly different.
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About the Role
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This is a role for an Engineer who can step beyond execution. You'll design automation solutions for major systems at highly respected customers, and you'll own the customer relationship along the way: meeting them, understanding what they need, and building the trust that gives them confidence the solution will deliver.
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Leaning on your experience, you'll also mentor, guide and help develop a junior team, shaping their technical growth and how the engineering gets done. You might already be leading a team but if you've been the robust technical contributor who's dabbled in mentoring but never had real responsibility for developing people, this is the step up.
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Responsibilities
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Engage directly with major customers to define scope, develop functional descriptions, and manage solutions through to acceptance
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Lead the design, development, and commissioning of automation systems across PLC, SCADA, and MES, integrating IT and OT in line with Industry 4.0 and ISA standards
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Write, develop, test, and debug PLC code across Siemens, Rockwell,



and other platforms
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Develop SCADA interfaces against P&IDs;
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Produce project documentation, from functional descriptions to training manuals
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Run peer code reviews and participate in stand‐ups and planning sessions
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Mentor more junior engineers on best practices and technical knowledge
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Carry out remote and on‐site commissioning — instrumentation, IO testing, production testing, CIP validation, and site acceptance testing
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Train client teams on the systems you've delivered
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About You
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At least three to four years of automation engineering / control systems design experience
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Demonstrable experience leading, managing, or mentoring more junior engineers
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Proficient in Siemens, Rockwell, Omron PLC platforms.
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Experience across PLC design and development as well as SCADA / HMI, and MES environments
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Experience on systems for applications involving the movement of fluids — whether beverage, water, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, or oil and gas.
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Comfortable in front of and guiding customers.
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Working knowledge of IT/OT integration tools and practices
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Good software, server and edge device experience.
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Based in Sydney or keen to relocate (with Australian working rights)
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Driving licence
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Exposure to data analytics and cloud or on‐premises solution design would be an advantage but is not essential
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Working knowledge of ISA 88, 95 and 106 standards preferred and Codesys is a bonus.
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Ready to Talk?
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Contact Ian Eker
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📌 Senior Control Systems Engineer. Industry 4.0 (New South Wales)
🏢 Ian Eker - Founder and Chief Talent Scout at Liftpass
📍 New South Wales