Service Engineer

Wallace Hind Selection; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 67,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid company car

5% pension

Overtime potential

Job summary

Wallace Hind Selection is seeking a Field Service Engineer for the food manufacturing sector. You will install, commission, repair and refurbish packaging machinery across client sites in the Northwest, with about one night away per week and minimal weekend work.

Full product training in the UK/Europe is provided. Benefit from a base salary up to £45,000 with overtime opportunities to reach £67,500, plus a hybrid company car and a 5% pension.

Qualifications

• Experience as a maintenance/field service engineer in a food factory setting.
• Hands-on experience with packaging machinery.

Responsibilities

• Install, commission, repair and refurbish packaging machines in the food manufacturing industry.
• Travel to client sites across the Northwest with minimal weekend work.
• Provide on-site mentoring and training during the first months.

Skills

Field service engineering

Packaging machinery

Food manufacturing

Multiskilled engineering

18th Edition & PLC

Education

Electrical & Electronic engineering apprenticeship or HNC

Tools

PLC knowledge

Job description

If you are a food factory Maintenance Engineer looking for a new challenge as a Field Service Engineer but also wanting a good work life balance not working shifts but also not having to travel and stay away then this is the job for you!

BASIC SALARY:

up to £45,000

BENEFITS:

• Overtime to earn up to £67,500
• Choice of hybrid company car
• 5% Pension

LOCATION:

Home based and 90% covering client sites in the Northwest you will ideally be living in or around Greater Manchester or elsewhere in Lancashire

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS:

Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Warrington, Chester, Blackpool, Lancaster

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Field Service Engineer, Maintenance Engineer - packaging machinery, food manufacturing

A classic Field Service Engineer role working on installation, commissioning, repair & refurbishment of packaging machines used in the food manufacturing industry.

You will be staying away 1 night per week on average with almost no weekend work required as 90% of your work will be on client sites in the Northwest.

Overtime is paid door to door at 1.5 x outside core hours and double at night and over weekends.

Full product training in the UK and Europe, with on site mentoring from a senior Engineer for the first 6 months.

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

• You will be an experienced food factory Maintenance Engineer ideally having hands on experience of working with packaging machinery.
• We will also consider experienced Field Service Engineers with hands on experience of packaging machinery used in the food manufacturing markets.
• You MUST be a qualified Multi skilled Engineer with ideally a full apprenticeship up to HNC level in Electrical & Electronic engineering
• 18th Edition & PLC knowledge would be advantageous.

THE COMPANY:

A well established, market leading and great company to work for with a fantastic culture and a very stable and loyal workforce.

They manufacture and sell a range of packaging machinery to the food manufacturing market.

Wallace Hind Selection, alongside our client embrace diversity, champion equality, and foster inclusion to create a work environment where everyone belongs and thrives.

REF: MPH18577, Wallace Hind Selection