Field Service Engineer

Job Description

Field Service Engineer

Mechanical Bias

Based Scottish border to Yorkshire/Manchester

Food Process/Cutting Machinery

£39,000

45 hour week

Work life balance

Any hours over 45 given back time in lieu

Holidays: 20 days

Company vehicle

Pension: 2% Matched

2 nights away per week

Company

My client is a Distributor of 10 European food processing machinery brands solely to the UK. Based in the north of the UK, my client now operates worldwide, supplying machines to fish, meat, and poultry factories on primary, secondary, and further processing. Machines include filleting, dicing, slicing, grinders, formers, and packaging machines.

The role

• Installation, breakdown, and repair of food processing machines & cutting tools
• Working on slicers, skinners, deboners, and portioning machines
• Able to read electrical drawings
• Able to wire & rewire
• Changing of bearings, belts & chains
• Experience working on shafts
• Addressing mechanical issues surrounding pulleys
• Ability to run Ethernet cables
• Run diagnostics through HMI’s – inputs/outputs
• Good understanding of pneumatics & hydraulics
• Stay away from home 2 nights per week
• Ability to cover the UK
• Visiting sites such as fisheries, meat processing, chicken houses, etc.

Qualifications & experience

• Experience with FMCG/Food/Production machines
• No formal qualification needed
• Ability to travel and understand the life of a service technician

If the above sounds of interest, please give Dan Walton a call or email.