Field Service Engineer - Northern Ireland

Oxford Instruments EMEAI; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Corporate Benefits

Fantastic team and supportive culture

LinkedIn Learning and development

Home office

Job summary

Oxford Instruments is hiring a Field Service Engineer in Northern Ireland, primarily supporting customers in the Derry/Londonderry area. The role is field-based with travel across the wider EMEA region.

You will commission equipment, respond to breakdowns, maintain records and liaise with technical teams. Prerequisites include an electrical/electronic qualification (HNC+), semiconductor industry experience and fluent English.

Qualifications

• Formal Electrical/Electronic qualification (HNC and above).
• Experience of Semiconductor or closely related high-Tech electronic industry.
• Ability to interpret Electrical and Mechanical drawings.
• Good PC skills.
• PLC experience advantageous.
• Fluent English speaker.
• Full driving licence.
• Able to work on own initiative
• Clear & concise communicator.

Responsibilities

• Carry out the commissioning of equipment including any operational and maintenance training requirements.
• Respond to emergency breakdowns for any warranty and service contract work.
• Report regularly to the EMEA Team Leader on all relevant issues and for PDR objectives.
• Provide a visit report for each customer visit, detailing work completed, outstanding issues, time spent on site, travelling etc, and help to ensure that all chargeable work is invoiced to the customer promptly.
• Liaise with technical support and systems engineering on any potential or actual system problems.
• Help to maintain an accurate record of the status of systems, timing of warranty, parts supplied and service contracts.
• Keep up to date all relevant enquiries and project files on any significant information.
• Provide detailed and accurate record of expense incurred on behalf of the Company

Skills

Electrical/electronic industry

Drawings interpretation

PC skills

PLC experience

Fluent English

Full driving licence

Education

Electrical/Electronic qualification (HNC+)

Tools

PLC software/hardware

Job description

Field Service Engineer - Northern Ireland

Date: 6 Nov 2026

Location: Belfast, GB

Job Function: Technical

Business Unit: Plasma Technology

At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world’s leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. With a sixty-year history, and fourteen Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.

Plasma Technology, as a part of Oxford Instruments Group, offers flexible, configurable process tools and leading-edge processes for the precise, controllable and repeatable engineering of micro- and nanostructures. Our systems provide process solutions for the etching of nanometre sized features, nanolayer deposition and the controlled growth of nanostructures. These solutions are based on core technologies in plasma-enhanced deposition and etch, ion-beam deposition and etch, atomic layer deposition, deep silicon etch and physical vapour deposition.

To support the ongoing growth of our business we are hiring a Field Service Engineer in Northern Ireland. The role is field based but will primarily support customers in the Derry/Londonderry area.

Role Purpose

To ensure that Plasma Technology equipment is fully functional and available for customer use. This role can involve regular travel within the wider EMEA Region.

Your Key Responsibilities Would Be

• Carry out the commissioning of equipment including any operational and maintenance training requirements
• Respond to emergency breakdowns for any warranty and service contract work.
• Report regularly to the EMEA Team Leader on all relevant issues and for PDR objectives.
• Provide a visit report for each customer visit, detailing work completed, outstanding issues, time spent on site, travelling etc, and help to ensure that all chargeable work is invoiced to the customer promptly.
• Liaise with technical support and systems engineering on any potential or actual system problems.
• Help to maintain an accurate record of the status of systems, timing of warranty, parts supplied and service contracts.
• Keep up to date all relevant enquiries and project files on any significant information.
• Provide detailed and accurate record of expense incurred on behalf of the Company

Prerequisites

• Formal Electrical/Electronic qualification (HNC and above).
• Experience of Semi-Conductor or closely related high-Tech electronic industry.
• Ability to interpret Electrical and Mechanical drawings.
• Good PC skills.
• PLC experience advantageous.
• Fluent English speaker.
• Full driving licence.
• Able to work on own initiative
• Clear & concise communicator

We Offer

• Car allowance
• Corporate Benefits
• Fantastic team and supportive culture
• LinkedIn Learning and development programmes
• Home office

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

Note to recruitment agencies: Oxford Instruments operates a Preferred Supplier List, and we do not accept unsolicited agency CVs. Please do not forward candidate details in response to this advert, or to any Oxford Instruments employees or other company locations. Oxford Instruments is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs.