Job Description:

Field Service Engineer – Special Purpose Machinery – UK & International Travel – Electrically Biased – North West - £44-48k + van + overtime + site allowances

Samuel Frank is recruiting for an Electrically biased Field Service Engineer who lives in the North West of England to join a special purpose machine manufacturer to work in a service and commissioning capacity.

Key aspects of the Field Service Engineer role include;

• Very well-established company with a full order book and the potential to grow the Field Service Engineer role and add PLC software commissioning to your skills
• Join a growing team of Field Service Engineers where you’ll be regularly working internationally, for trips typically 1-3 weeks in duration. The Service Manager estimates about 30-50% of your time will be spent abroad
• Field Service Engineer will need to be Electrically biased and Electrically qualified, ONC minimum level
• When not working on customer sites in the UK or abroad, the successful Field Service Engineer will be working on the shop floor in East Lancashire
• Knowledge of working on machinery used in food production environments would be useful, but not essential
• Field Service Engineer role requires first class communication skills
• Key areas of accountability include making sure you’re on top of daily logs, variation to contract orders, calibration certificates, project completion certificates, breakdown, site service and survey duplicate sheets.
• Provide rapid response quotations for spares and any remedial or extra service work relating to site visits and health checks.
• Working week is 37 hours/week, overtime is paid at single rate Monday to Friday, x1.5 on a Saturday when working away and x2 on Sundays and Bank Holidays if working away
• Company credit card will be provided and hourly uplift paid for hours worked onsite to cover as a subsistence payment

The client’s premises are easily commutable from most of Manchester and places including Oldham, Rochdale, Heywood, Stalybridge, Denton, Burnley, Blackburn, Accrington, Nelson, Bolton and Hebden Bridge.