Hybrid PLC Developer

at Bridger

• Job title: PLC Developer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: €75,000 - €80,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Lindlar, Germany

About the role

• SPS Developer responsible for developing and programming control systems for custom machinery. Working in a hybrid environment with national and international collaboration and customer support.

Responsibilities

• Genuine responsibility – from concept phase to commissioning at the customer's site.
• Full technical responsibility, not just assisting.
• Shape instead of manage – small, well-rehearsed team, short decision-making paths, no corporate bureaucracy.
• Technically challenging projects – every machine is unique.
• Contribute to PLC software architecture, take technical ownership and be responsible for projects as a whole – not just implementation.
• Development, programming and commissioning of control systems for custom machinery.
• Implementation of control strategies for pressure, temperature and other process parameters.
• Creation and maintenance of HMI visualizations (e.g., WinCC, web HMI).
• Integration of sensors, actuators and drive systems (e.g., Festo, KEB, Siemens).
• Development and maintenance of modular software libraries in TIA Portal.
• Optimization of existing applications and commissioning both in-house and at customer sites.
• Customer support remote/on-site; willingness to travel nationally and internationally.
• Close collaboration with mechanical, electrical and process engineering teams.

Requirements

• Completed technical training with further qualification as a state-certified technician (m/f/d) or industrial supervisor/master (m/f/d), or a degree in electrical engineering, automation engineering or mechatronics.
• Several years of experience in PLC programming and industrial automation.
• Confident use of Siemens TIA Portal (S7-1500, ET200SP).
• Knowledge of WinCC Advanced/Professional, PROFINET and drive technology (Festo/KEB).
• Understanding of process workflows in plastics or press technology.
• Structured, solution-oriented and independent working style.

Benefits

• Company pension plan (Metallrente).
• Company-leased bike program (JobRad).
• Payment of capital-forming benefits (vermögenswirksame Leistungen).
• Provision of work clothing.
• High flexibility with opportunities for individual shaping of the role.
• Flat hierarchies and a good working atmosphere.