Service Engineer

Redmore Recruitment limited; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment consultancy is seeking maintenance and service engineers in the UK to join their service team providing 24/7 support. The role involves electrical maintenance, responding to service calls, and working on an on-call rota. Key skills include programming and PLC experience. The company offers internal training and development opportunities, alongside a hybrid working schedule with strong team support.

Benefits

Flexible working schedule

Internal training opportunities

Good support structure

Qualifications

• Experience in a maintenance role with programming and PLC skills is required.
• Candidates should possess problem-solving abilities and a customer-friendly approach.

Responsibilities

• Respond to service and breakdown calls.
• Support the existing customer base.
• Perform maintenance tasks at customer sites.
• Assist engineering department for support and commissioning.

Skills

Programming experience

PLC experience

Problem-solving skills

Support and teamwork

Job description

Our client is inviting applications from maintenance and service engineers to work within their service team providing 24/7 service and support to contracted customers. The role involves attending various customer sites undertaking electrical maintenance and ad hoc service as well as working on an on-call rota with the other engineers to cover out of hours call outs.

Our client is looking for candidates with programming and PLC experience as well as experience within a maintenance role. The role comes with a base salary, plus call out allowance, and overtime rates.

Working within a well-established team, this role provides challenge as well as support to the incoming engineer. Internal training is plentiful, with support from senior engineers and others in the team. Our client has a core aim to develop and train personnel and there are future opportunities for advancement within this role.

Our client is looking for someone who can think on their feet, problem solve and support colleagues by sharing expertise. The company has a flexible working schedule with hybrid working, a good support structure of like-minded engineers, and a team ethos.

If you feel you have the relevant experience in a service, design, or maintenance role, with PLC and drive experience, and software design skills this role could be for you.

Key responsibilities

• Response to service and breakdown calls on an ongoing basis
• Support to the company's existing customer base
• Maintenance tasks at customer's site
• Casual field service to new and existing customers
• Undertake small project work
• Assistance to the engineering department, both for support and commissioning assistance
• Development and generation of service contracts with new and existing customers
• Facilitation of the company's service business including reporting and invoicing
• Training and feedback to the engineering team of problems and solutions development during routine service operations
• Assist in the growth and development of the service business

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