Maintenance Engineer

A rare opportunity for an experienced food factory Maintenance Engineer with some customer facing experience or for an experienced field service engineer looking to come off the road to move into a senior office based role offering technical support to clients and the companies field service team.

You will be working for a market leading manufacturer of packaging machinery sold into the food industry.

BASIC SALARY: up to £58,000

BENEFITS:

1. Annual Bonus
2. Company Car
3. Private Health

LOCATION: Office based on the M4 between Slough & London

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Uxbridge, Oxford, Aylesbury, Luton, Slough, Watford, Brentford

JOB DESCRIPTION: Technical Support Engineer, Service Engineer, Maintenance Engineer - Packaging Machinery, Food

Reporting to the Managing Director and Service Manager, you will be office based and responsible for providing remote technical support to both existing clients and the companies field service team.

There will be occasional travel to client sites to assist on installations and to the companies factories in Europe for training will be required.

You will also work closely with the UK aftersales team and manufacturing sites in Europe and will be responsible for all Health and Safety documentation.

PERSON SPECIFICATION: Technical Support Engineer, Service Engineer, Maintenance Engineer - Packaging Machinery, Food

1. You will ideally be a food factory Maintenance Engineer with hands on experience working with packaging or processing machinery used in the food industry and with some customer facing experience looking for an office based role.
2. The company will consider an office based Technical Support Engineer or a field service engineer with experience of packaging machinery & the food industry looking to get off the road.
3. You WILL be a qualified Multi skilled Engineer with an electrical bias and some knowledge of working with PLC`s.
4. Lastly you will be technically credible, commercially astute and a good communicator.

THE COMPANY:

A UK and Worldwide market leading manufacturer of packaging machinery sold into the food market. This is a very well established UK sales and service office with whom I have worked for over 12 years and placed many people with. They are a good company full of genuinely nice people.

This role is to replace the current incumbent who is retiring later in the year, so you will get a chance to train up alongside him for a few months.

PROSPECTS:

There is a genuine opportunity to move into an aftersales management role in the next 2 to 3 years if successful in this position.

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: MPH17667, Wallace Hind Selection Ltd