Field Engineer

Search Beyond Limited; Tonbridge; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Search Beyond Limited in Kent is seeking a Field Engineer to cover commissioning, service and on-site support across the UK. You will build and test bespoke machinery, inspect from drawings, and ensure equipment runs correctly at customer sites.

You will diagnose faults, perform upgrades, and provide ongoing technical support with travel across the UK and occasional Europe, contributing to varied projects and client satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on mechanical engineering skills.
• Experience as a field/service engineer or similar.
• Experience reading engineering or assembly drawings.
• Good fault-finding and problem-solving abilities.
• Willingness to travel across the UK, occasionally Europe.
• Full UK driving licence and own vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Build and set up bespoke machinery and equipment.
• Assemble from drawings (mechanical, pneumatic, electrical).
• Test equipment to ensure performance before site delivery.
• Install and commission equipment at customer locations.
• Diagnose mechanical, pneumatic and electrical faults.
• Provide servicing, maintenance and breakdown support.
• Travel to customer sites across the UK and Europe as required.

Skills

Hands-on mechanical

Field service

Fault finding

Electrical & pneumatic

Troubleshooting

Customer service

Driving license

Heavy lifting

Job description

Field Engineer - Commissioning & Service

Location: Kent – with UK travel and occasional European travel

Salary: £35000 – £45000 + overtime + expenses + progression + bens, REALISTIC MINIMUM £50K with opportunity to earn £60k ++++

Are you an experienced hands-on engineer who wants more variety, more responsibility and somewhere you can genuinely progress?

This is a brilliant opportunity to join a growing engineering business where you won't be pigeonholed into doing the same thing day after day.

You’ll get involved throughout the journey – building and testing equipment, getting it running exactly as it should, installing it on customer sites, fault finding, commissioning and providing ongoing technical support. It's a genuinely varied engineering role where you'll see projects come to life and have the satisfaction of knowing you played a major part in making them happen.

And importantly, this isn't necessarily the ceiling.

For someone ambitious who wants to develop, there's loads of scope to grow, broaden your technical knowledge and take on greater responsibility as the business continues to expand.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll spend part of your time at the company's Kent facility and part working at customer sites across the UK, with occasional European travel.

Your role will include:

• Building and setting up bespoke machinery and equipment
• Working from engineering drawings to assemble mechanical, pneumatic and electrical components
• Testing equipment and making sure everything performs as it should before it leaves site
• Getting involved with machine optimisation, troubleshooting and problem solving
• Installing and commissioning equipment at customer locations
• Diagnosing mechanical, pneumatic and electrical faults
• Supporting customers with servicing, maintenance and breakdown requirements
• Carrying out upgrades, modifications and improvement work
• Working alongside mechanical, electrical, controls and engineering colleagues
• Feeding ideas back into the wider team to help make future equipment even better
• Supporting and training customers once equipment is operational

What are we looking for?

We're deliberately keeping this fairly open.

You could currently be working as a Commissioning Engineer, Service Engineer, Machine Builder, Mechanical Fitter, Assembly Engineer or in another hands-on engineering role where you've gained strong experience with machinery or automated equipment.

More important than your exact job title is your ability to understand how machinery works, build it, diagnose problems and get it running properly.

You wil have:

• Strong hands-on mechanical engineering skills
• Ideally worked as a field engineer previously
• Experience working from engineering or assembly drawings
• Good fault-finding and problem-solving ability
• Some exposure to electrical and pneumatic systems
• Experience working with machinery, automated equipment or similar engineered systems
• The confidence to work independently when required
• A professional approach when dealing with customers
• A good level of physical fitness, happy to carry out heavy lifting regularly
• A full UK driving licence and your own vehicle
• A willingness to travel across the UK, with occasional trips further afield

Why consider it?

Because this is much more than a straightforward service role.

You’ll have the opportunity to work across build, testing, installation, commissioning, servicing, fault finding and improvement projects, giving you exposure to far more than you'd typically get in a narrowly defined engineering position.

The business is growing, which means there is genuine scope for the right person to progress with it. If you're ambitious, technically curious and keen to keep learning, there is plenty of opportunity to broaden your role and take on more responsibility over time.

So, if you've reached the point where you want a role that gives you variety, challenge and somewhere to actually go with your career, we'd love to hear from you.