Commissioning Engineer

Wallace Hind; Leicester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global manufacturer in the pharmaceutical sector seeks a skilled Commissioning Engineer to join their elite team in Leicester. This role offers a salary of up to £60,000, extensive training, and an exciting variety of projects across the UK and Ireland, making it ideal for a proactive individual looking to advance their career within a reputable company.

Benefits

Company Car

5% pension contributions

Paid overtime

20-25 days holiday

Christmas shutdown holidays

Private medical after probation

Death in service benefits

Discretionary yearly bonus

Qualifications

• Experienced Multi skilled Electrical / Mechanical Engineer.
• Exposure to PLC’s and instrumentation required.
• Proven track record in Commissioning Engineer roles.

Responsibilities

• Commissioning, calibrating, and validating high-specification equipment.
• Providing technical support and training for customers.
• Traveling approximately 60% of the year to customer sites.

Skills

Problem solving

Team player

Instrumentation

Electrical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Education

Electrical engineering ONC/HNC/HND/B.Eng or equivalent

Job description

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You are a talented Electrician, Commissioning Engineer, Installation Engineer or Field Service Engineer looking to work for a Leicestershire based global machinery manufacturer working in the pharmaceutical industry who only employ high level individuals. You’ll enjoy 1st class product training and the variety of travelling across the UK to customer sites. You will be an integral part of an elite team in the UK supporting our customers in the UK and Ireland. Fast forward your career with us.

BASIC SALARY: Up to £60,000 dependant on your relevant experience and suitability for the role.

BENEFITS:
· Company Car (Skoda Octavia class or similar)
· 5% pension (employer / employee contributions)
· Paid overtime if necessary
· 20 days holiday (rising 1 day per year for the first 5 years’ service up to 25 days)
· Christmas shut down holidays are on top (3 -5 extra days holidays)
· Private medical – post probation
· Death in service – post probation
· Discretionary yearly bonus at Christmas after 1 full years’ service

WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY?
· You can earn an excellent salary and a great all-round benefits package working for a very well-respected global manufacturer of high-specification pharmaceutical equipment.
· Huge variety for you – no two projects will be the same and a very interesting diverse role can be created here by the right individual – and your problem-solving skills across mechanical, electrical and controls, instrumentation (PLC’s) will be needed to integrate / install / commission our equipment.
· Superb training (initially on you joining us) and then yearly refresher training at our head office. You’ll become an expert in our sector (primarily oral solid dosage equipment) learning about our machines, their components, safety valves and control systems etc.

As our Commissioning Engineer, you will be project based, start-up, commissioning, validating and calibrating high-specification capital equipment as well as many other interesting tasks in the pharmaceutical sector. You must be a problem solver and a team player with an open mind and attitude who will relish the challenges related to integrating machinery into a customer’s production line. We primarily use Siemens S7 & WAGO.

This role requires you to travel to customer sites and you may be away circa 60% of the year. Your work will be predominately on pharmaceutical sites or similar in the UK and ROI, but occasionally you may be asked to support in Central Europe or further afield too.

When you are not on customer sites you will be a combination of office / home based providing customer technical support and attend to other interesting engineering tasks. Attitude is key here to become an integral part of an elite Global engineering team.

· Commissioning, calibration, instrumentation/controls, fault-finding, mechanical tasks, completing RAMS (Risk Assessment Method Statements) and many other interesting facets while working on top of the range pharmaceutical processing machinery to high profile clients across the UK and Ireland. Occasionally in Central Europe too
· After sales / technical support tasks.
· You may or could be working / staying away circa 60% of the time – coming home on weekends

· You’re an experienced, Multi skilled Electrical / Mechanical Engineer with exposure to controls / PLC’s / instrumentation and mechatronics. You don’t need to programme from scratch, but you may need to fault find and modify code at times.
· You’ve got a proven track record as a Commissioning Engineer or similar – working on capital equipment across (most probably) pharmaceutical, food, chemical industries etc
· You might be a Service Engineer or a static Maintenance Engineer or an Electrician or a mechatronics type of individual who’s ready to step up and wants the travel, variety of work and a role with potential to grow in the pharmaceutical industry.
· Staying away on a job and away from home cannot be a problem for you – it’s just part of your job.

Ideally you be qualified in Electrical engineering ONC/HNC/HND/B.Eng or equivalent.

THE COMPANY:
We are a global manufacturer of special purpose, process machinery for the pharmaceutical, chemical and food sectors employing over 2500 people. We install, commission, validate, train and provide after sales support from over 15 Global sites.

PROSPECTS:
Further progression and development within our wider group if you wish. Your line manager joined our group as an engineer before they progressed. The MD started his career in the company in a similar role to this.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Air Handling Units, Electrician, Mechatronics, Installation Engineer, Commissioning Engineer, Service Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Multi skilled Engineer, Controls Engineer, Systems Engineer, Qualification Engineer, Validation Engineer, CQV Engineer – Pharmaceutical, Food Manufacturing, Ex-Military, Oil & Gas, Industrial Capital Equipment, PPMA, Process Machinery, Packaging Machinery

INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.

Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.