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Automation SW Engineer - Talent Pool

ABB is hiring an Automation SW Engineer - Talent Pool. Level rates it ; you can apply on ABB.

Level's read on this job

  • Level rates this role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
  • Some of the work can be done remotely, according to the posting.
  • The posting mentions PLC, automation and plc programming among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a mid-level role.
  • ABB has 2,100+ other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Design automation solutions and program PLCs while ensuring compliance with safety and cybersecurity standards at ABB.

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automationplc-programmingelectrical-engineeringcommissioning

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This Position reports to:

Group Manager


 

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be a design authority for an engineering discipline. Each day, you will complete assignments on multiple projects of moderate size or portions of major projects in a cost-effective manner. You will also showcase your expertise by ensuring assignments are completed in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards, safety requirements, and cybersecurity policies and standards.

The work model for the role is: hybrid

This role is contributing to the Automation Team in Pilsen and Brno region.

You will be mainly accountable for:

  • Evaluation, selection, and application of standard techniques and procedures to perform engineering assignments. 

  • Providing technical support for testing, installation, and commissioning activities.

  • Preparing project documentation within one’s scope of deliverables.

License to Operate / Core Values

  • Reports any integrity, compliance, safety, cybersecurity, quality, contract, program, and cost issues to the management and/or project manager(s) for resolution. 

  • Ensures that engineering activities and deliverables comply with safety and cybersecurity regulations and standards and contractual requirements. 

  • Ensures that Bill of Materials (BOM) for the project meets contractual obligations. 

  • Identifies and implements change / variation requests based on the approval from project manager. 

  • Ensures the project meets the technical requirements of the contract and is technically completed as part of contract closure activities. 



Qualifications for the role:

  • At least a high school education in electrical engineering

    • Experience in automation and PLC programming (we provide training for graduates) 
    • English at a communicative level (collaboration with international customers and teams) 
    • Willingness to travel – business trips within Europe 
    • Independence and motivation to work in an international team 
    • Government Regulation No.194/2022 Coll. 

  • You hold VISA/work permit currently valid for the Czech Republic.


Benefits

We also offer our employees the following benefits:
  • Annual financial bonus
  • Flexible working hours
  • Possibility of working from home (Home Office)
  • Meal plan
  • 5 weeks vacation
  • Further career development (development within branches worldwide)
  • Office in the center of Pilsen (train, bus, tram nearby)
  • Language courses - group and individual
  • Mobile phone + business preferential tariff for you and up to 5 family members
  • Leave from work for extraordinary events (wedding, birth of a child, funeral, donation, moving)
  • Company events (Christmas party, Family day, Career days, team building and others)
  • Multi Sport Card – sports and leisure activities
  • Contribution for benefit portal (2-3%)
  • Discounts with our partners (purchase of cars, train transport, tours, etc.)

More about usABB’s Process Automation business area enables customers to operate some of the world’s largest and most complex industrial infrastructures, helping them outrun – leaner and cleaner.We offer a broad range of automation, electrification and digital solutions for process, hybrid and maritime industries, including industry-specific integrated control and software as well as measurement and analytics solutions and services.Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world.
Run What Runs the World.

A future opportunity

This role is part of our talent pipeline, which means it’s not currently open, but we’re always looking for curious minds, bold thinkers, and people who want to make an impact.

Click Apply to express your interest and be considered for future opportunities that match your experience and aspirations.

At ABB, we welcome people from all backgrounds and believe that diverse perspectives help us build a cleaner, smarter future.

Apply today or visit https://www.abb.com to learn more about how we help run what runs the world.

How we rate this

Automation SW Engineer - Talent Pool at ABB rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AutomationPLC ProgrammingElectrical EngineeringCommissioningPLC

Questions you could be asked

  1. Tell me about a project where automation was part of your work. What did you do?
  2. Tell me about a project where plc programming was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where electrical engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where commissioning was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Walk me through how you've used PLC in your day-to-day work.

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: Automation, PLC Programming, Electrical Engineering, Commissioning, and PLC. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
  • Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.

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