Service Engineer in Hinckley)

Are you an experienced Refrigeration Engineer who wants to work on leading dairy manufacturing machinery and process equipment? This is a multi-faceted role covering service, installation, maintenance and breakdown. Workshop based in Leicestershire and travelling to customer sites nationally.

BASIC SALARY: up to £57,000 dependant on your relevant experience

BENEFITS:

1. Paid overtime above your standard 40 hours
2. 23 days holiday + bank holidays
3. Government standard pension
4. Company van for work use only

LOCATION: Near Hinckley, Leicestershire

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Coventry, Lutterworth, Rugby, Leicester, Tamworth, Nuneaton, Market Harborough, Daventry, Northampton, Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Leicester, Royal Leamington Spa, Birmingham, Solihull, Kenilworth

JOB DESCRIPTION: Service Engineer, Refrigeration Engineer - Commercial Refrigeration, Industrial Refrigeration, F-GAS

We have excellent in-house and manufacturer training for you. A chance for you to be workshop and customer site based. No two days, weeks will be the same for you if you want a varied role.

You will need to live within 30-45 minutes of our site, because some weeks you will have no call-outs or planned installs or maintenance. We will keep you busy though with hands-on testing, fault-finding in our workshop. You do need to be prepared to travel to customer sites UK wide and occasionally abroad too.

If you want a role that gives you engineering variety - installation, service, maintenance (the full after-sales solution). Then look no further.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Pre delivery inspection at our premises in Leicestershire
2. Installation and commissioning of machinery equipment
3. Reactive response to breakdowns - the better they're maintained the less they break!
4. Customer training post service and installation
5. Routine planned maintenance - you understand the importance of this!
6. Update and maintain machinery and equipment manuals

YOUR BACKGROUND:

1. You will have experience with refrigeration equipment, chillers, coolers or similar - that could be from manufacturing or commercial environments
2. Experience working with relevant machinery - Ice cream machinery is preferred but we are open to a background of dairy, frozen or chilled food manufacturing and/or process machinery or distillery equipment. If you are unsure if your background is suitable, please ask us
3. You understand this role will involve travel to customer sites for installation, commissioning, service and breakdown when you are not in our workshop and there may be occasions you need to stay over too
4. Hold suitable electrical / refrigeration-based qualifications and a good general background in mechanical and electrical principles
5. You will hold a Full UK driving Licence

THE COMPANY:

We are the number one stockist of both new and used dairy, chilled and frozen food processing machinery. Our product range covers most of the leading manufacturers globally. We offer a full range of after-sales services including installation, commissioning, planned maintenance and reactive breakdown/repair.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: commercial refrigeration, fridges, freezers, chillers, thermoelectric, absorption, mechanical compression, refrigerator, service, commissioning, installation, engineer, technical, electrical, commercial catering, F-GAS, fluorinated, heat-pump, air-conditioning.

INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.

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

Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.

REF: JAC18095, Wallace Hind Selection