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Senior Commercial Automation Engineer

Milton Keynes

Senior Commercial Automation Engineer

Milton Keynes

 

Jungheinrich is one of the world's most successful intralogistics companies. As a top employer, we offer outstanding opportunities in a wide range of professional fields.

Within Jungheinrich UK we strive for excellence, challenging current practice and driving to continue to be the best in class. We invest in our talent and have a culture of openness, integrity, and respect. As a holder of an Investor in People award since 2006, we commit to ensuring you are given the right training when you need it to do your job to the best standard. By joining Jungheinrich you will join a team of people passionate to succeed.

We are currently looking for a Senior Commercial Automation Engineer to join our commercial team based in Milton Keynes.

 

What We Offer

  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Discount website which will give you access to 100’s of brands with opportunities for savings and cashback
  • Company Pension Scheme: Employer matched contributions of between 5% and 10%
  • Private Medical Insurance: Free to all employees as a taxable benefit, with additional option of adding on partners/children at a small cost
  • Industry leading training
  • Company laptop and phone

 

Role Purpose

  • Design, build, and scale production-ready automations and data solutions that remove manual work from Commercial processes.
  • Replace legacy Excel tools with robust, database backed, workflow driven solutions using Power Automate, Power Apps, and SQL – supported by Python/VBA/Java where appropriate.
  • Act as the Commercial team’s hands‑on builder who works independently, partners with process owners to prioritise the backlog, delivers outcomes quickly, and owns results end‑to‑end.

 

Role Responsiblities

Process discovery & design

  • Map as is processes, quantify operational pain points, define and implement system supported process improvements.

Solution build (Power Platform & code)

  • Build Power Automate flows to replace manual processes.
  • Build Power Apps for data entry, approvals, and controls.
  • Create Python scripts for data transformation, scheduled jobs, or API integrations (nice to have).
  • Use Java where needed for specific integrations or existing in house components (nice to have).

Operations & support

  • Monitor automations; triage failures and root cause fix.
  • Produce concise documentation, and training guides.
  • Run adoption sessions; collect feedback from stakeholders; iterate based on outcomes.

Maintain or migrate existing tools

  • Design and implement SQL schemas.
  • Validate integrity of existing Excel sales tool suite incl. pricing tool, residual value or financial renewal (JFS) tool 
  • Where appropriate migrate legacy VBA Excel workbooks to sustainable platforms.
  • Provide regular training on Sales tools | Refresher sessions, training for new starters or highlighting new features

 

Role Requirements

  • Communication: Can present trade offs, influence priorities and able to translate business needs into technical builds.
  • Several years of experience in a process improvement/automation or data engineering role within a business function (Commercial, Finance, Operations, or similar).
  • Challenger Mindset with a strong desire to learn how we operate, make suggestions of how we could improve and develop these suggestions

 

Competencies

  • Power Platform: Strong Power Automate; hands on Power Apps (Canvas; Model Driven a plus).
  • Databases/SQL: Schema design, stored procedures, optimisation, and data migration.
  • Programming: Python (automation, data processing); VBA (legacy support/migration); Java is a plus.
  • Excel to database migration: Normalisation, validation, and access control.
  • SAP SD, SAP CO and SAP AfO is a plus

 

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