Main characteristics
- Location
- Swindon, Wiltshire
- Company
- Kraft Recruitment
- Salary
- £35000 - £40000/annum overtime + travel time
- Employment type
- Permanent
- Category
- Engineering
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced Field Service Engineer to join my clients successful team and be home based within the Swindon / Bristol area. My client is an established and renowned quality manufacturer of automated and robotic finishing equipment. The ideal candidate will have experience in electrical, mechanical and pneumatics as well as be able to demonstrate an ability to read and understand engineering drawings along with electrical drawings. You will also be provided with full on the job product training.Field Service Engineer role:
Reporting to the Field Service Manager, as Field Service Engineer you will commission and undertake preventative maintenance, service, repair for all types of company machines covering a very wide range of applications and will also provide training to our customers. You will be home based to cover the South West area of England. Basic working hours will be 37.5 per week.
Commissioning / installation / servicing and repairs to all company products.
To train the customers production and maintenance teams, both in operation of the machines to achieve their particular application, also in planned maintenance and basic trouble shooting.
To provide product improvement and new machine sales opportunity feedback.
To communicate effectively with your colleagues in field service planning, commercial and engineering departments.
To be able to deal confidently and professionally with customer personnel on site.
To report accurately and on a timely basis on all service visits, with accountability for van stocks of components and spare parts.
To account accurately and on a timely basis for expenses incurred.
Field Service Engineer skills and experience:
Electrical experience with relevant qualification to support
PLC & HMI programming / fault find would be beneficial but not essential
Pipework brazing experience would be an advantage
Robotics programming skills would be an advantage
Must have good written and verbal communication skills
Field Service Engineer package:
Salary £35K + overtime / bonus (OTE £40k+)
Overtime average of 8 hrs per week
Door to door standard / flat rate overtime for weekday overtime and 1.5 x hourly rate for working / traveling at the weekend
Pension
Company van fully expensed
Phone, laptop and iPad
Benefits: overtime + travel time