PLC / Controls Engineer (Aggregates) RecruitmentLeeds
Looking for a plc / controls engineer (aggregates) in Leeds? We don't give you candidates, we give you capacity: plc / controls engineer (aggregates)s on contract for immediate cover or permanent for the long term, across Leeds and Yorkshire. Typical salary £42,000 to £60,000.
The PLC / Controls Engineer (Aggregates) Role
As quarries, asphalt and concrete plants automate, the PLC/controls engineer becomes the person who keeps the plant intelligent, programming and fault-finding the control systems that run the processing circuit, weighing and batching. It is a scarce, cross-over skill: industrial controls competence plus genuine aggregates/process understanding. Because so few controls engineers know this environment, both permanent salaries and contract day rates are strong, and downtime on a control fault is expensive. ARG sources controls, automation and SCADA engineers who understand aggregate and materials plant.
Aggregates in Leeds & Yorkshire
Yorkshire is one of the UK's heartlands for hard-rock quarrying and aggregates, with a dense cluster of gritstone and limestone operations, asphalt coating plants and ready-mix networks across West and North Yorkshire. Leeds sits at the commercial centre of it, so demand runs across the full stack, quarry management, plant maintenance, controls and surfacing, and the ageing workforce makes experienced operational hires genuinely hard to secure.
Typical Qualifications & Tickets
- PLC programming (Siemens / Allen-Bradley / Mitsubishi)
- SCADA / HMI
- Industrial electrical (17th/18th Edition)
- Instrumentation advantageous
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