Job Description
My-client is seeking a Field Service Engineer with relevant packaging machinery and automations industry experience to join a growing engineering team. This is a home-based position requiring travel throughout the UK, with occasional opportunities for international travel. Their ideal candidate will have previous packaging machinery field service experience and be happy travelling throughout the UK with occasional trips abroad.-
Field Service Engineer Role:
Attend customer sites to carry out Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) on packaging machinery, pallet and product handling conveyors, and robotic systems.
Respond to emergency breakdowns, diagnose faults, and carry out repairs to return customers to production as quickly as possible.
Complete detailed service reports and worksheets, including work carried out, parts used, consumables required, and recommendations for future improvements.
Ensure all service and repair activities are completed in accordance with customer health, safety, and environmental procedures.
Take responsibility for personal health and safety, including conducting risk assessments and implementing safe systems of work where required.
Field Service Engineer Requirements:
Previous field service engineering experience, ideally within packaging, automation, or materials handling environments.
Strong electrical knowledge, including single-phase and three-phase systems, inverters, sensors, and control systems.
Mechanical maintenance experience with hydraulics, pneumatics, motors, bearings, and associated equipment.
Excellent fault-finding and diagnostic skills.
Strong communication and customer service skills with the ability to build and maintain positive customer relationships.
Full UK Driving Licence.
Experience maintaining and programming industrial robotic systems (desirable not essential)
Familiarity with other robotic platforms such as Fanuc (desirable not essential)
Knowledge of packaging machinery, including form-fill-seal systems and weighing equipment (desirable not essential)
Basic PLC knowledge (desirable not essential)
Field Service Engineer Package:
Salary -60,000 per annum including overtime.
Company van provided.
Laptop and uniform supplied.
Home-based working arrangement
Pension
24 days holiday plus Bank Holidays. Additional holiday entitlement awarded through long service.
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