Service Engineer in Reading)

Wallace Hind Selection; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A respected machinery distributor is seeking a Multi-skilled Electrical/Mechanical Engineer in the UK. The role involves servicing, installing, and commissioning industrial machinery. Candidates should have experience in production equipment and a general engineering understanding. The position offers a competitive salary of up to £45,000, excellent benefits, and opportunities for career advancement.

Benefits

Company vehicle

Annual overtime potential

Good holiday package

Full benefits package including Pension and Private Healthcare

Qualifications

• Experience as a Service or Maintenance Engineer.
• Exposure to packaging, process, inkjet, or automation equipment is a plus.
• Understanding of PLCs at an operational level.

Responsibilities

• Service, install and commission industrial machinery across various sectors.
• Split time between Petersfield site and client locations.
• Conduct scheduled installation and maintenance of equipment.

Skills

Multi-skilled Engineering

Familiarity with production equipment

General engineering understanding

Operational understanding of PLCs

Job description

Overview

Are you a Maintenance Engineer looking to break into Field Service? Are you a Field Service Engineer looking for a better quality of life and less staying away from home? We are looking for a Multi skilled Electrical / Mechanical Engineer to service, install and commission industrial machinery / capital equipment across various sectors. Splitting your time between our Petersfield site and at client locations across the UK - we offer a good salary, benefits package and excellent job security.

Salary & Benefits

• BASIC SALARY: Up to £45,000
• Company vehicle
• Circa £5,000 overtime annually
• Good holiday package, rising with service
• Company bonus scheme
• Full access to benefits package including Pension and Private Healthcare

Location

LOCATION: Commutable to Petersfield, Hampshire

Commutable locations

• Winchester
• Reading
• Southampton
• Portsmouth
• Farnham
• Fleet
• Horsham
• Basingstoke
• Andover
• Crawley
• Worthing
• Fareham
• Guildford
• Woking
• Bracknell
• Epsom
• Alton

Why should I apply?

• We WILL NOT waste our Engineers' time. Your skills and experience are a valuable asset and we want you working rather than endlessly driving. You will be deployed efficiently - so no wild goose chases across the country!
• We offer world class training at our principals' sites across Europe. You'll become an expert in our niche field.
• Hugely varied work on a wide variety of products. Our portfolio is large, so you'll be doing different things each week. Keep that problem solving engineering brain ticking!

Job Description

Service Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Field Service Engineer - Automate UK, Process and Packaging Machinery, Inkjet, Production Equipment

This is a hybrid role, split between working at our Petersfield site, and a classic, multi skilled field based Service Engineer vacancy. The role is divided between scheduled installation and maintenance of equipment at sites across the UK and reactionary service (often with a few days' notice and very occasional emergency breakdown response).

During periods of training, you will also visit principal sites across Europe.

Person Specification / Qualifications

• Ideally, you will be a multi skilled and experienced Service or Maintenance Engineer with familiarity of working on production equipment from any sector. Any exposure to packaging, process, inkjet, or automation equipment would be a bonus, but any PLC controlled machinery would be a good match.
• The wide variety of equipment they work on would benefit from a broad range of experience and a good, general engineering understanding. An understanding of PLC's from an operational level is important - but you are not required to be able to program, debug, fault find etc.

Company & Prospects

Well established and respected distributor of machinery across several business areas including converting, print finishing, and process and packaging machinery.

• Beyond an annual salary review, there is a direct path to a Senior Service Engineer role in the medium term.

Industry context & Experience

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: Service Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Installation Engineer, Commissioning Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Multiskilled Engineer - PPMA, Process and Packaging Machinery, Inkjet, Production Equipment, PLC, Automate UK

Interested?

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

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: SP18262, Wallace Hind Selection