Service Engineer

Northampton Business Directory; Corby; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable engineering company is looking for a Field Service Engineer based in Corby. This role involves repairing, maintaining, and installing high-quality packaging machinery for various industries, mainly focusing on food and pharmaceuticals. You will need to be a qualified Mechanical Engineer with strong experience in industrial equipment. The position requires traveling across the UK, with occasional stays at client sites. A comprehensive benefits package and a competitive salary of up to £55,000 are available.

Benefits

Overtime earnings up to £10,000

Generous Car Allowance

Full company benefits package

Qualifications

• Experienced Field Service or Maintenance Engineer of industrial machinery.
• Qualified Mechanical Engineer.
• Exposure to packaging machinery in food/pharmaceutical sectors is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Repair, refurbishment, upgrades, installations, and commissioning of machinery.
• Split time between workshop in Corby (1/3) and client sites (2/3).
• Travel for scheduled maintenance, installation, or commissioning projects.

Skills

Repair and maintenance of industrial equipment

Experience with PLCs

Mechanical engineering qualifications

Fault finding on PLCs

Education

Qualified Mechanical Engineer or completed mechanical apprenticeship

Job description

Are you a Service or Maintenance Engineer from an on-site maintenance or field service background – with experience of providing repair, maintenance, service and support of industrial equipment? We're a well established British engineering company who offer full after sales and service support to the clients of a major Italian packaging machinery manufacturer. Any experience with Siemens or Allen Bradley PLC's would be an advantage.

Basic Salary

Up to £55,000.

Benefits

• Overtime to earn circa £10,000 (paid door to door).
• Generous Car Allowance.
• Full company benefits package.

Location

Covering the UK & Ireland 70%, but factory based in Corby 30% of the time.

Communable Locations

Corby, Peterborough, Northampton, Stamford, Leicester, Lincoln, Bedford.

Job Description

Field Service Engineer, Mechanical Service Engineer, Maintenance Engineer – Packaging Machinery, Industrial Capital Equipment, PLC.

A classic Field Service Engineer role involving repair, refurbishment, upgrades, installations and commissioning of a range of Italian manufactured packaging machinery supplied to the food, pharmaceutical and other manufacturing industries.

Time is split between the Corby workshop (roughly 1/3) and travelling to client sites around the UK (2/3). You'll probably stay away a couple of nights per week on scheduled maintenance, installation or commissioning projects.

Person Specification

• You WILL be an experienced Field Service or Maintenance Engineer of industrial or special purpose machinery or capital equipment.
• You MUST be a qualified Mechanical Engineer or have completed a full mechanical apprenticeship.
• Any electrical engineering qualifications or experience would be a bonus.
• Any exposure of fault finding on PLC's would also be a plus.

Exposure, or previous hands experience of packaging machinery would be an obvious advantage – ideally in the food and / or pharmaceutical sectors – but we're open on any special purpose industrial machinery experience.

The Company

A small and very well established British engineering company who offer full after sales and service support to the clients of a major Italian packaging machinery manufacturer. This role is a new role to cover for future retirement. A really nice place to work and a client of mine for over 20 years!

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: Field Service Engineer, Site Based Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Multi skilled Engineer – Industrial Capital Equipment, Special Purpose Machinery, PPMA, Automate UK, Packaging Machinery, Process Machinery, Food, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Chemical, PLC, Allen Bradley.

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.

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

SP18284, Wallace Hind Selection.