Field Service Engineer

Control Recruitment Solutions Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Pension

25 days holiday

Credit card

Fuel card

Expenses

Allowances

Door-to-door pay

Job summary

Control Recruitment Solutions Ltd. is seeking a Field Service Engineer – Packaging based in the UK. The role involves national travel with ~3 overnight stays weekly, offering a salary of £43,000–£60,000 plus a company car, overtime, pension and 25 days holiday.

You will maintain and service packaging machinery, read drawings, and fault-find on PLCs, VSDs, servo drives and pneumatics. Excellent training and long-term position available.

Qualifications

• Read mechanical and electrical drawings / schematics.
• Experience with PLCs, VSDs, servo drives, pneumatics and conveyors.
• Willingness to travel nationally and stay away from home for 3 nights per week on average.

Responsibilities

• Diverse service, maintenance, installations, upgrades, refurbishments and occasional breakdowns on food/packaging machinery.
• Read and interpret mechanical/electrical drawings; fault finding, diagnostics, repair, installations.
• Educate customers on use and maintenance of equipment.

Skills

Electromechanical

PLC programming

VSDs

Servo drives

Pneumatics

Conveyors

Travel readiness

Job description

Field Service Engineer – Packaging

Location seeking Engineers based in UK ideally with good motorway links. The role will involve national travel / 3 overnight stays per week on average. Occasional international travel available if desired.

Salary £43,000 – 60,000 + car + overtime / allowances (£20 – 50k) + pension + 25 days holiday + credit card, fuel card, expenses, allowances, paid door to door

Hours Monday to Friday daytime

Exciting opportunities have arisen to join stable & profitable market leaders.

The Person:

• Multiskilled / electromechanical maintenance or service experience preferably on machinery such as flow wrapping, VFFS, HFFS, flexible packaging, multihead weighers, industrial bakeries, filling, dosing, End of line EOL, sealing, thermoforming, slicing, processing, XRay & inspection or similar food / beverages packaging machinery.
• Seeking a long term position with great training.
• Ability to read mechanical and electrical drawings / schematics.
• Experienced with PLCs, VSDs, servo drives, pneumatics, conveyors.
• Flexible to travel and stay away from home 3 nights per week on average
• Health & Safety and hygiene focused, friendly, proactive, good communication, desire to learn and continuously improve.

The Job:

• Varied work including service, maintenance, installations, upgrades, refurbs and occasional breakdowns food and packaging machinery.
• Read mechanical and electrical drawings / schematics, fault finding, diagnostics, repair, installations.
• Educate customers on use and maintenance.

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