Field Service Engineer in Birmingham, West Midlands (County)

Energy Jobline CVL; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle

Overtime

Pension

Job summary

Energy Jobline CVL is seeking a Field Service Engineer based in Birmingham, covering the UK and Ireland. The role involves planned maintenance, servicing, fault diagnosis, and on-site repairs of vacuum and atmosphere furnaces, with travel to customer sites across the region.

The candidate will perform relines, electrical fault-finding, and contribute to documentation and reporting, while upholding health and safety standards and customer relations.

Qualifications

• Engineering qualification electrical or mechanical, or time-served equivalent.
• Hands-on service, maintenance, or field engineering experience.
• Willing to travel2–3 nights away most weeks, with occasional overseas trips.
• Full UK driving licence, and able to do hands-on furnace work.

Responsibilities

• Planned maintenance, servicing, and reactive call-outs on vacuum and atmosphere furnaces, to schedule and spec.
• Fault diagnosis on site and safe, correct repairs.
• Hot zone relines on vacuum furnaces including brazing and carburising processes.
• Electrical fault-finding and support for controls upgrades with the controls team.
• Accurate service reports and full job documentation on every visit.
• Represent the company professionally on site in the UK and abroad, adhering to RAMS and site rules.

Skills

Engineering qualification

Hands-on service

UK travel willingness

UK driving licence

Education

Engineering qualification

Job description

Field Service Engineer

Location: Birmingham based covering UK and Ireland

Salary: £35,000 - £45,000 + Overtime + Pension + Company Vehicle

Days Based

Reference: 7563/HH

The Company

Based within a very successful and well-established service organisation supporting a wide variety of client end users our client is looking to recruit a service engineer to complement their existing service team.

Key Skills

• Engineering qualification, electrical or mechanical, or time-served equivalent.
• Hands‑on service, maintenance, or field engineering experience.
• Comfortable being away 2 to 3 nights most weeks, and with occasional overseas trips. .
• Full UK driving licence, and physically able to do hands‑on furnace work.

The Role

• Planned maintenance, servicing, and reactive call‑outs on vacuum and atmosphere furnaces, to schedule and spec.
• Fault diagnosis on site and safe, correct repairs.
• Hot zone relines on vacuum hardening, brazing, and carburising furnaces, working accurately with graphite, carbon fibre, and molybdenum. Rebuild to the agreed design, not a shortcut version of it.
• Electrical fault‑finding, and support for controls upgrades including system, alongside the controls team.
• Accurate service reports and full job documentation on every visit, following company process from as‑found condition to clean hand‑back.
• Represent the company professionally on site, in the UK and abroad, work to site rules and our RAMS, and keep the customer informed.