Electrical Service Engineer – Projects & Commissioning

Permanent Futures Limited; Apperley Bridge; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car

Bonus

Pension

Paid overtime

Paid travel time

Job summary

Permanent Futures Limited is seeking a Service Engineer with electrical systems experience to support industrial equipment at customer sites and remotely. The role involves commissioning, maintenance, fault-finding across electrical and control systems, and delivering practical engineering solutions in collaboration with customers and internal teams.

The position offers involvement in engineering design and improvements beyond routine servicing, with responsibilities spanning root-cause

Qualifications

• An electrical engineering qualification or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience fault-finding on industrial machinery or process equipment, PLC fault-finding or troubleshooting, reading electrical drawings, and a good level of mechanical understanding.
• Strong diagnostic and problem-solving ability, experience working directly with customers, ability to work independently, and a full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Support industrial equipment at customer sites and remotely.
• Commissioning new equipment and systems, planned preventative maintenance, breakdown support, fault-finding across electrical, mechanical, instrumentation and control systems, PLC troubleshooting and diagnostics, and investigating complex or recurring equipment faults.
• Carry out root cause analysis, recommend long-term solutions, identify opportunities to improve equipment reliability and performance, produce scopes of work for repairs and upgrades, create parts lists and technical recommendations, and support engineering design and modification projects.
• Provide technical information to support quotations and customer proposals, help implement equipment upgrades and improvement projects, act as a trusted technical point of contact for customers, and feed field experience back into engineering and product improvement activities.
• Work closely with colleagues across Engineering, Service, Sales and Operations, so this role would suit someone technically strong but comfortable dealing directly with customers and taking ownership of problems through to resolution.

Skills

Electrical engineering

PLC fault-finding

Electrical drawings

Mechanical understanding

Customer communication

Driving licence

Education

Electrical engineering qualification

Tools

Siemens PLC

Allen-Bradley PLC

Mitsubishi PLC

Job description

Permanent Futures Limited is seeking a Service Engineer with electrical systems experience to support industrial equipment at customer sites and remotely. The role involves commissioning, maintenance, fault-finding across electrical and control systems, and delivering practical engineering solutions in collaboration with customers and internal teams.

The position offers involvement in engineering design and improvements beyond routine servicing, with responsibilities spanning root-cause