Field Service Engineer – Home based – Multiskilled - £40-45k + overtime + site uplift for overseas work + company vehicle/fuel card

Samuel Frank is recruiting for an experienced multi-skilled Field Service Engineer to join a client in the West Midlands to work on high-tech manufacturing equipment.  

Key aspects of the Field Service Engineer role include –

• Ideally, the successful Field Service Engineer will have experience of working on furnaces, heat treatment equipment, melting, casting and bonding process and may have involved the installation, commissioning or servicing of furnaces
• Skilled in both mechanical and electrical disciplines and will ideally have worked in either a service capacity or a plant maintenance role
• Training & coaching available as well as the opportunity to work alongside seasoned Furnace Field Service Engineers so can learn from a team of experts
• Will be involved in service work and will also be involved with commissioning and installation duties
• This opportunity is home based so if you live in the UK and can work in the UK without sponsorship, it doesn’t matter where you’re based
• Role requires extensive UK site work and non-UK travel
• This is not a one plant maintenance position but will suit an individual with the range of skills of a strong multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer who is interested in a multi-site/travelling type role. The frequency and duration of visits will depend on work load and customer demand.
• Experience of working in medium to heavy industry will be advantageous. Candidates with good all-round engineering knowledge of working on high-tech equipment will be well suited to this opportunity
• The ideal profile will be a time-served Mechanical Engineer and have experience of electrical/software technologies such as PLCs and SCADA (Siemens, WinCC, InTouch, Wonderware). Candidates who are time-served electrically and have good mechanical knowledge could also be ideal for this opportunity
• Auto-enrolment pension – employee contributes 3% and employer contributes 5%
• Once 45 hours have been worked Mon-Fri (including travel time), overtime will be paid at x1.25 for hours worked Mon-Fri, x1.5 Saturdays and x2.0 on Sundays. The existing Field Service Engineers average 50-55 hours per week so there’s plenty of opportunity to increase your total earnings

Please apply today for an immediate response.