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Process Automation Engineer
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Job Title: Business Process Automation Engineer
Rate: £325 per day (Inside IR35)
Duration: 12 months
Location: Central London – 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
Overview
We’re seeking a Business Process Automation Engineer to support the maintenance, optimisation, and development of internal automation tools that streamline key business operations. With over 50 in-house tools already deployed to automate data handling, reporting, and workflow management, this role will focus on improving system stability and driving further automation initiatives as the business scales.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor and maintain existing automated tools and workflows.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing both short- and long-term solutions.
- Enhance tool reliability, performance, and monitoring efficiency.
- Design and develop new automation tools to meet evolving business requirements.
- Collaborate closely with business users to understand processes and deliver practical automation solutions.
- Maintain clear documentation, including specifications and runbooks.
- Track daily progress, communicate updates to stakeholders, and adjust timelines as necessary.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Skills:
- Advanced Excel knowledge, including VBA and VBS scripting .
- Working knowledge of Python for light automation and data processing.
- Experience with Power Automate , SharePoint , or Office Scripts is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with system monitoring and operational stability best practices.
Business Skills:
- Strong communication and stakeholder management – able to clarify requirements and manage expectations.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on process documentation and continuous improvement.
- Organised, adaptable, and capable of prioritising workload effectively.
Senior Manufacturing Process Automation Specialist
Posted 20 days ago
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The Senior Manufacturing Process Automation Specialist will lead projects involving robotics, PLCs, HMI systems, and SCADA integration. You will be responsible for developing automation strategies, troubleshooting complex technical issues, and ensuring the seamless operation of automated manufacturing lines. Collaboration with engineering, production, and maintenance teams will be essential to identify automation opportunities and drive continuous improvement. This role requires a deep understanding of manufacturing processes and a passion for cutting-edge automation technologies.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the design, development, and implementation of new automated manufacturing systems and processes.
- Programming and configuring PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA systems from various manufacturers.
- Integrating robotics and other automated equipment into existing production lines.
- Developing and executing commissioning plans, conducting system testing, and troubleshooting automation issues.
- Optimizing existing automation systems to improve performance, reliability, and efficiency.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define automation requirements and project scopes.
- Providing technical support and training to maintenance and operations personnel.
- Staying current with industry trends in automation, robotics, and Industry 4.0 technologies.
- Developing documentation, including control system designs, P&IDs, and operational manuals.
- Ensuring compliance with safety standards and regulations related to automation systems.
The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Science, or a related field. You should have a minimum of 7 years of experience in industrial automation, with a strong focus on manufacturing environments. Proven experience with PLC programming (e.g., Siemens, Rockwell), robotics (e.g., FANUC, KUKA), and SCADA systems is essential. Excellent problem-solving skills, a systematic approach to troubleshooting, and strong project management capabilities are required. Experience in a hybrid work setting and the ability to collaborate effectively with teams both on-site and remotely are key. Experience in specific manufacturing sectors such as automotive, food & beverage, or pharmaceuticals is a plus.
Document Automation Specialist
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Our client is at a very exciting point in their growth trajectory and due to the pipeline work that has been built up, they are looking to hire a Document Automation Specialist to join their London team.
In this role, you will work with clients to understand their needs and requirements, provide expert advice and recommendations to enhance and optimise templates, maintain client templates and collaborate with other internal teams to ensure long term client success.
The successful candidate must have at least 2 years’ document automation experience, be comfortable working with various stakeholders including clients, have meticulous attention to detail, be highly organised, used to working on multiple projects at the same time and have excellent communication skills.
They use their own proprietary document automation solution, but prior experience of tools like HotDocs or Contract Express would be helpful.
The company are offering a competitive salary, excellent benefits package and good scope to progress your career, with a clear roadmap for advancement.
Document Automation Specialist
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We are looking for a candidate with experience in the property industry to join our team as a Document Automation Specialist.
About Valos
Valos is a pioneering platform transforming the property valuation industry by automating time-consuming workflows and empowering professionals to focus on what matters: determining value. Our platform enhances valuation reporting through:
- Data gathering
- Report writing
- Document automation
We work directly with clients to take their report templates, optimise them, and automate them into our proprietary system—improving quality, consistency, and client satisfaction.
Role Overview – Document Automation Specialist
We're looking for someone with ideally 2 years' experience in document automation. Any experience within the property industry is a nice to have but not essential.
They should be comfortable reviewing client templates, providing expert suggestions, mapping data to templates, and working independently across multiple projects. Client interaction is a core part of the role, so good communication skills are essential.
Ideal Profile
- Strong command of Microsoft Word (especially Developer Tab, Styles, troubleshooting etc.)
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Comfortable managing several projects concurrently
- Confident liaising with clients and taking ownership of work
Responsibilities
- Review and validate clients' valuation report templates, identifying inconsistencies, errors, or omissions.
- Collaborate with clients to map Valos' data automation features to corresponding sections within their templates.
- Provide expert advice and recommendations to enhance and optimise valuation report templates.
- Maintain templates by promptly incorporating client-requested updates and modifications.
- Collaborate between the Document Automation Specialists and Customer Success teams to deliver exceptional service and support.
Career Progression
- As a Document Automation Specialist you will also have the opportunity to be exposed to other aspects of the company including customer success, account management, and product development.
Reporting Structure
- Report directly to the COO.
Work Environment
- Hybrid work environment
Benefits & Compensation
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Charity day
- Birthday day off
- Flexible bank holidays.
- Allocation for professional development opportunities.
- Allocation for home office setup.
- Competitive salary range commensurate with experience.
- Dog friendly office
- Private Health Insurance
Document Automation Specialist
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Our client is at a very exciting point in their growth trajectory and due to the pipeline work that has been built up, they are looking to hire a Document Automation Specialist to join their London team.
In this role, you will work with clients to understand their needs and requirements, provide expert advice and recommendations to enhance and optimise templates, maintain client templates and collaborate with other internal teams to ensure long term client success.
The successful candidate must have at least 2 years’ document automation experience, be comfortable working with various stakeholders including clients, have meticulous attention to detail, be highly organised, used to working on multiple projects at the same time and have excellent communication skills.
They use their own proprietary document automation solution, but prior experience of tools like HotDocs or Contract Express would be helpful.
The company are offering a competitive salary, excellent benefits package and good scope to progress your career, with a clear roadmap for advancement.
AI & Automation Specialist
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Senior Sales Engineer – Instrumentation / Process Automation
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Senior Account Manager – Instrumentation / Process Automation
Location: Southwest London
About the Role
We are seeking a seasoned and driven Senior Account Manager to strengthen client partnerships and accelerate business growth in Southwest London. With proven expertise in instrumentation and process automation, you’ll be instrumental in delivering high-impact, value-led solutions across multiple industries.
This role suits someone who excels in nurturing long-term relationships, uncovering new opportunities, and leading consultative sales in technically advanced environments.
Key Responsibilities
As Senior Account Manager , you will:
- Lead and expand a portfolio of high-value accounts through structured account planning.
- Develop deep customer insights while staying ahead of emerging industry trends.
- Act as a trusted advisor, providing expertise on instrumentation products, services, and integrated solutions.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Service, and Solutions teams.
- Apply a consultative sales approach to identify and address client needs.
- Drive new business development initiatives and contribute to shaping regional strategy.
- Maintain consistent customer engagement, both face-to-face and virtually.
- Demonstrate agility, proactive decision-making, and a solutions-first mindset.
Your Profile
You will bring:
- A proven track record in sales within Instrumentation and Process Automation .
- Strong technical knowledge of measurement technologies and systems.
- Exceptional relationship-building and communication skills.
- A strategic approach, with consistent success in exceeding sales targets.
- Self-motivation, with the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively.
What We Offer
- The stability and reputation of working with a global, family-owned leader in industrial measurement.
- Company car or car allowance.
- Access to world-class training and personalised development programmes.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Family-friendly social events throughout the year.
- An excellent pension scheme and comprehensive benefits.
- Increased annual leave with length of service.
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Senior Sales Engineer - Instrumentation / Process Automation
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Senior Account Manager – Instrumentation / Process Automation
Location: Southwest London
About the Role
We are seeking a seasoned and driven Senior Account Manager to strengthen client partnerships and accelerate business growth in Southwest London. With proven expertise in instrumentation and process automation, you’ll be instrumental in delivering high-impact, value-led solutions across multiple industries.
This role suits someone who excels in nurturing long-term relationships, uncovering new opportunities, and leading consultative sales in technically advanced environments.
Key Responsibilities
As Senior Account Manager , you will:
- Lead and expand a portfolio of high-value accounts through structured account planning.
- Develop deep customer insights while staying ahead of emerging industry trends.
- Act as a trusted advisor, providing expertise on instrumentation products, services, and integrated solutions.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Service, and Solutions teams.
- Apply a consultative sales approach to identify and address client needs.
- Drive new business development initiatives and contribute to shaping regional strategy.
- Maintain consistent customer engagement, both face-to-face and virtually.
- Demonstrate agility, proactive decision-making, and a solutions-first mindset.
Your Profile
You will bring:
- A proven track record in sales within Instrumentation and Process Automation .
- Strong technical knowledge of measurement technologies and systems.
- Exceptional relationship-building and communication skills.
- A strategic approach, with consistent success in exceeding sales targets.
- Self-motivation, with the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively.
What We Offer
- The stability and reputation of working with a global, family-owned leader in industrial measurement.
- Company car or car allowance.
- Access to world-class training and personalised development programmes.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Family-friendly social events throughout the year.
- An excellent pension scheme and comprehensive benefits.
- Increased annual leave with length of service.
Automation SDET
Posted 6 days ago
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Our client is leader in providing cutting-edge Technology and they are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to join their Tech team with some experience in BDD, Automation Testing, Agile (Scrum) and scripting.
Due to the nature of the work/client, you **must have or be eligible to gain SC Clearance** .
**What you'll be doing:**
+ Working with the product team to define the acceptance criteria and testing DOD for each story
+ Pairing with the developers to define and review the required tests that will address all features and functions of a product delivery at the unit and component layer
+ Performing exploratory testing at all levels
+ Working with the Product team to define tests throughout the product delivery into live
+ Automating tests where required.
+ Working collaboratively with developers to design and test stubs
+ Ensure the team define tests to validate NFR's at the appropriate level
+ Ensuring traceability is maintained throughout the product delivery
+ Ensuring the team is aware of test progress and quality metrics, and that the team delivers them in a format this is consumable by those who have asked for them.
+ Raising the profile of quality throughout the product lifecycle
+ Working in an Agile team, you will be responsible for inputting to the design and build of automated tests to ensure adequate and effective test coverage
+ Provide test assurance of the user stories according to the defined acceptance test criteria; whilst working in a test-first environment.
+ Work closely with Software Engineers to deliver the test activities to meet the requirements, whilst contributing to effective agile delivery.
+ Able to participate in estimation activities and are encouraged to identify opportunities to maximise test benefit within the team.
+ Provide assurance at team retrospectives and planning sessions to ensure test best practice, continual improvements and appropriate standards are adhered to
+ Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience working in Agile delivery teams using TDD with Java and be able to work autonomously.
+ Experience of PACT frameworks that enable Consumer Driven Contract testing is desirable
+ Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their importance in Automation Testing process
+ Exposure to command line and scripting languages for at least one OS (Windows or Linux)
+ Good coding skills (SOLID, DI, Design Patterns, etc.)
+ Able to unit test the framework built
**What experience you'll bring:**
+ A seasoned QA Automation Engineer
+ Experience and knowledge of API testing and the use of Postman
+ Cypress
+ Docker for running the Cypress container
+ Working with Gitlab for storage of all developed test automation
+ TDD Using Junit
+ SonarQube
+ Jenkins
+ Splunk
+ Gatling
+ Serenity
+ Cucumber
+ Selenium
+ Wiremock
+ Hamcrest
+ AWS Cloudwatch
+ Jira and Confluence
**Nice to have**
+ Mocks and stubs
+ Advanced Devops knowledge
+ Deep Agile Development knowledge
+ Ability to lead projects and design test strategy
**Who we are:**
We're a business with a global reach that empowers local teams, and we undertake hugely exciting work that is genuinely changing the world. Our advanced portfolio of consulting, applications, business process, cloud, and infrastructure services will allow you to achieve great things by working with brilliant colleagues, and clients, on exciting projects.
Our inclusive work environment prioritises mutual respect, accountability, and continuous learning for all our people. This approach fosters collaboration, well-being, growth, and agility, leading to a more diverse, innovative, and competitive organisation. We are also proud to share that we have a range of Inclusion Networks such as: the Women's Business Network, Cultural and Ethnicity Network, LGBTQ+ & Allies Network, Neurodiversity Network and the Parent Network.
For more information on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion please click here: Creating Inclusion Together at NTT DATA UK | NTT DATA ( we'll offer you:**
We offer a range of tailored benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Our Learning and Development team ensure that there are continuous growth and development opportunities for our people. We also offer the opportunity to have flexible work options.
You can find more information about NTT DATA UK & Ireland here: are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in the fair treatment of all our employees and commit to promoting equity and diversity in our employment practices. We are also a proud Disability Confident Committed Employer - we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us, during the application process, that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.
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Lead Industrial Process Engineer - Automation
Posted 3 days ago
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Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development and integration of advanced automation solutions within industrial manufacturing processes.
- Analyze existing production lines to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for process improvement through automation.
- Design and specify new automated systems, including robotics, PLCs, SCADA, and other control systems.
- Oversee the commissioning and validation of new automated equipment and processes.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive process documentation, including P&IDs, SOPs, and functional specifications.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., R&D, operations, maintenance) to ensure seamless integration of automated solutions.
- Provide technical expertise and guidance on automation technologies and best practices.
- Conduct feasibility studies and ROI analyses for proposed automation projects.
- Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in industrial automation and Industry 4.0.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to automated processes.
- Train and mentor junior engineers on automation principles and practices.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in industrial process engineering, with a strong focus on automation.
- Proven experience in designing, implementing, and commissioning automated manufacturing systems.
- In-depth knowledge of PLC programming (e.g., Siemens, Allen-Bradley), SCADA systems, and robotics (e.g., KUKA, FANUC).
- Proficiency in process simulation software and CAD tools.
- Strong understanding of Lean Manufacturing principles and Six Sigma methodologies.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and manage complex projects.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, essential for effective remote teamwork.
- Ability to work independently, manage time effectively, and adapt to changing priorities in a remote setting.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of industrial automation from a remote location, contributing significantly to a leading manufacturing organization. If you are a results-oriented engineer with a passion for innovation, we encourage you to apply for this exciting role, remotely contributing to operations near London, England, UK .