Job TitleSenior Controls Project Engineer
Job Description
Senior Controls Project Engineer
Reports to: Group Project Engineering Manager
As a Controls Project Engineer within Vanderlande’s Airport and Parcel Solutions (APS) business unit, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing control systems that drive the efficiency of BHS and parcel handling projects. Your expertise in controls will be vital in ensuring seamless integration of hardware and software components, enabling reliable and optimized performance across highly complex material handling systems. This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects at major airports and parcel hubs globally.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, and execution of control systems for BHS and parcel handling systems, ensuring the systems meet technical and functional requirements.
- Develop hardware and software solutions (including PLC systems) that ensure seamless integration of control components with mechanical and electrical systems.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including mechanical, electrical, and software engineers, to ensure control systems are aligned with project goals and customer requirements.
- Create detailed project plans, manage schedules, and coordinate team activities to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
- Document system specifications, interface designs, and test plans for Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT), Site Acceptance Tests (SAT), and Commissioning Acceptance Tests (CAT).
- Oversee testing and validation processes to ensure the control systems meet customer expectations and performance standards.
- Manage the configuration and integration of software throughout all project phases, ensuring alignment with the overall system architecture.
- Drive standardization efforts for control system platforms and processes, identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing best practices.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in industrial controls and PLC programming, particularly Siemens, within BHS or parcel solutions.
- Strong understanding of control systems design, hardware/software integration, and system commissioning.
- Proven experience managing control system projects from design to customer handover.
- Willingness to travel internationally for project execution and oversight.
Key Competencies:
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to address complex system integration challenges.
- Excellent project management skills, ensuring control system projects are delivered on time and within budget.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, working with cross-functional teams in fast-paced environments.
- A focus on continuous improvement, driving standardization and innovation in control system development.
- Identify new opportunities to enhance control system performance and efficiency.
- Validate system performance through thorough FAT/SAT testing.
- Troubleshoot control system issues quickly to maintain system performance.
- Ensure control systems are seamlessly integrated into larger BHS/parcel systems.
Top Skills
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market.
Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions.
The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology.
Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation.
Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
