Field Service Engineer

Field Service Engineer – UK Wide
Location: Home Based - Covering the UK & Ireland
Salary: £46,800 + Call Out + Overtime + Pension + Healthcare + Bonus + Company Car – Giving a potential earning of £60-£85k (inclusive of call out & overtime)
Days Based - Monday to Friday
Ref: 6867/JB
The Company
My client is one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of turnkey machinery automation solutions to a wide variety of industries. The company has been established for over 70 years and currently employs over 12,000 people worldwide; they have become a centre of excellence within automated process machinery to the FMCG industry. Due to further expansion within the British market, they have the need to recruit an additional field service engineer, with mechanical service and commissioning experience.
The Role
The role of Field Service Engineer is to install, commission and fault-find on a wide range of Labelling Machinery. A customer facing role, that is field based requiring travel to customer premises as and when required and potentially at short notice.
The role is highly technical and a background in engineering is essential, and the ability to build a strong working relationship with customers will be key to success.
Role & Responsibility
* Installation and commissioning of individual machines in production lines.
* Spare parts surveys to individual machines
* Maintenance and overhauling of machines with commissioning.
* Installation of change parts and upgrades with commissioning.
* Identifying, eliminating and documenting malfunctions in consultation with technical and design departments.
* To carry out training of customer staff on machine operation following installation.
* Instructing and training of Apprentices.
* Reporting & Feedback (Service reports, travel reports, warranty reports etc.)
* To have a willingness to learn new technologies and techniques.
* To be able to work independently as well as part of a team.
* To be able to work with customer specific guidelines and safety instructions.
Experience and Qualifications
* Time served engineer, ideally HNC/HND in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent
* Previous experience of the food & beverage industry as well as filling and packaging equipment preferable but not essential.
* Previous experience of field based working preferable but not essential.
* Good level of computer literacy and IT skills, and having used MS office (Outlook, Word, Excel), but also with the ability to learn new systems quickly.
* Good fault-finding capability with flexibility to consider different solutions, thinking “outside the box”.
If you are interested in this role, please send a copy of your current CV using the details provided, interviews will be held locally, and the company is looking to recruit this role as soon as possible.
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