The Engineering Industry Labour Report 2025

The Engineering Industry Labour Report 2025

Control Systems Engineering

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Specialist UK control systems recruitment agency

We connect organisations with control systems engineers for permanent and contract roles in defence, marine, manufacturing, and MedTech. Candidates we work with have expertise in PLC programming, SCADA systems, motion control, industrial automation, PID tuning, and control loop optimisation. Whether you’re delivering automated production lines, marine propulsion systems, medical instrumentation, or defence control platforms, we ensure you can access engineers with the right technical knowledge.

Our network includes engineers proficient in software and hardware tools such as Siemens TIA Portal, Rockwell Studio 5000, LabVIEW, MATLAB/Simulink, and ABB Control Systems. They also understand relevant standards and safety protocols, and safety integrity levels (SIL), ensuring their knowledge aligns with operational and compliance needs.

Every recruitment process is designed around your project and team. By collaborating with hiring managers, we connect you with engineers whose control systems expertise, programming skills, and understanding of operational constraints allows them to contribute immediately to both contract and permanent roles.

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Exploring potential roles? Looking for a new challenge or career path? Whatever your reasons, our expert team is here to find you the ideal control systems engineer role. We’ll take the time to understand your background, skills and future ambitions – only matching you with the most suitable roles.

We’re always interested in hearing from candidates with strong backgrounds working with systems and software such as SOLIDWORKS, Amtech, EPLAN, AutoCAD Electrical and Zuken. To get started, upload your CV or browse our open positions today. We’ll be in touch when a vacancy fits.

Murray McIntosh

Contract

Senior Systems Engineer

£65-£85 per hourBideford

* Proven experience working as a systems engineer * Familiarity with DOORS NG/DOORS * Experience of MBSE, enterprise architecture & SysML advantageous * Full systems development lifecycle experience * Requirements capture & management experience through to V&V and delivery * Experience of electronics or sonar advantageous but not essential * Marine/Defence experience advantageous Candidates with current SC clearance would be preferred.

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Murray McIntosh

Permanent

Senior Electrical Engineer

£60,000-£63,000 per annumBarnstaple

Location - Barnstaple, Devon Working arrangements - Hybrid (2-3 days on site) Salary - Up to £62,000 DOE + benefits Start date - ASAP

Murray McIntosh

Contract

Electrical Technician

£30-£39 per hourDidcot

Responsibilities: * Control panel building * Panel wiring to IPC standards * Rack building and wiring * Cable pulling * Prototype wiring * Adding connectors to cables * Working to diagrams and schematics * 18th edition electrical would be preferred

Murray McIntosh

Permanent

Field Engineer

£38,000-£42,000 per annumBerkshire

The role is field-based, covering the South and M4 corridor, and would suit someone based around Reading, Basingstoke, Newbury or Farnborough. You'll be installing, commissioning and maintaining water treatment equipment on customer sites, carrying out planned maintenance and fault-finding, and working closely with clients and contractors on live sites.

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Murray McIntosh

Contract

Senior Electronics Engineer

£65-£75 per hour

Experience required: * Electronic design & engineering experience * Altium experience (preferred others considered) * Excellent PCB design, layout and schematic capture experience * Knowledge of SIL preferred. * Power electronics experience preferred * Analogue & Digital design experience * Understanding of embedded software would be an advantage * Previous marine/defence experience (advantageous not a necessity)

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Murray McIntosh

Contract

Electrical Technician

£30-£39 per hourDidcot

Murray McIntosh are currently seeking an Electrical Technician to work for a client of ours on a contract basis as detailed below: Responsibilities: * Control panel building * Panel wiring to IPC standards * Rack building and wiring * Cable pulling * Prototype wiring * Adding connectors to cables * Working to diagrams and schematics * 18th edition electrical would be preferred

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