Job Description

Role: Senior Controls Systems Software Engineer

Location: Oundle, Peterborough

Hours: 37.5hrs per week

Package: Competitive Salary + Pension + Healthcare + Share Scheme + EV Car Scheme

Eltek Systems are looking to recruit Senior Software Controls Systems Engineer to join our expanding team.

About the role

The role will see you tasked with Project delivery mostly within Food & Beverage industries. Working across different brands of PLC's, including Rockwell and Siemens.


The ideal candidate will have experience of working on different Projects, delivering for a Systems Integrator.

Main Responsibilities:

Actively participates in the whole life cycle of delivering projects, from start to finish. Foster great relationships with customers, suppliers and colleagues. Produce design and test documentation. Develop PLC, HMI and SCADA software. Perform testing with customers. Carry out on-site commissioning. Compile training manuals and run customer training sessions.

The Person

Intermediate-level experience with Rockwell, Siemens or other major brands of PLC and SCADA/HMI platforms, with an appetite to learn new technologies. Several years' experience writing software and working with customers delivery projects. Good understanding of setting up, commissioning, and fault finding of industrial networks (EthernetIP, Profibus, ProfiNet, Ethernet) preferred, but not essential. Experience working in an engineering environment.

Benefits Package

What we can offer in return:

International travel allowance + overtime Holidays - 25 days plus bank holidays Private Healthcare Discretionary Bonus Vinci Share Scheme EV Car Purchase Scheme Company Pension Scheme (Contributions matched up to 7%) Hybrid working options following completion of probationary period. Disability Benefit Scheme and Death in Service Insurance. Company Sick Pay

Who are Eltek Systems?

Eltek are one of the leading independent providers of industrial process and automation solutions within the food and beverage industry.


Engineering areas include:

Conceptual Design and Consultancy System Design & Manufacture Software Engineering Project Management

We work with a variety of key customers helping them to manufacture different snack products across the world.

The Wider Vinci Group

Eltek Systems are part of the VINCI Energies UK and ROI operating within Actemium Automation. Actemium have been providing high quality engineering solutions and services in the UK since 1907.


VINCI's de-centralised business model allows us to provide our customers with the resources, vitality and strength of a large global company, while still delivering local personalised service. Along with the other business units in the Actemium Automation family, we employ over 250 people at 14 locations across the UK.


VINCI are a world leader in engineering and construction with 220,000 employees operating out of 3,000 offices in 120 countries across the globe.