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Field Service Engineer

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
North West England
Salary
£34,000 - £38,000
Closing date
21 Aug 2021

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Engineering
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Field Service Engineer - Multiskilled

Job ref: 62932 | £34,000 - £38,000 | Greater Manchester + Travel

The company

This role is working for an extremely successful, BRC AA Graded food manufacturer. The business is dedicated to supplying high-quality products and combined with exceptional service, enable their food manufacturing customers to innovate and increase productivity without compromising on quality.

The job

As Field Service Engineer, you will service, maintain, and optimise company food production equipment and machinery located within customer premises.

You will provide customers with telephone out of hours support for breakdowns and follow-up visits plus assist the engineering team at company facilities with plant maintenance and engineering projects when not at customers premises.

Key duties:

  • Ensure that company equipment is performing at its best and exceeding the customer expectations.
  • Maintain and develop the relationships at customer sites and deliver a high level of customer service.
  • Proactive machine maintenance in accordance with the PPM schedule to plant, machinery, and equipment to prevent unplanned downtime.
  • Occasional installation requirements, though the job will be predominantly orientated towards maintaining machinery.
  • Assess, develop, and introduce improvements to existing engineering/production processes to minimise threats to productivity, food safety and health & safety risks.

Your experience

You will be an experienced, electrical-bias Multiskilled Engineer with experience working in the food manufacturing industry, most preferably bakery.

Customer relationship skills are essential as you will be the face of the company at customer premises, assisting them and providing guidance.

Ideally apprenticeship trained, you will have pneumatic control knowledge and excellent fault-finding skills – PLC skills are also an advantage.

A driving licence and passport are also essential.

More details

The Field Service Engineer job is based in Greater Manchester and paying £34,000 - £38,000 according to experience.

This is mainly a site-based role, however when restrictions allow you will be travelling to customer premises throughout the UK and Ireland. This will involve occasional overnight stays (2 days max, unless in Ireland where it will usually be one week).

The working hours are Monday to Thursday 8 am – 4.30 pm and Friday 7.30 am – 3 pm, however slight flexibility may be required.

How to apply

To be considered for the Field Service Engineer job, please click the Apply button.

After you have submitted your CV, we will aim to contact you in 1-2 business days on the assumption that your skills and experience match the job requirements.

On applying for this job, you consent to b3 jobs ltd holding your details on file to be able to contact you about your job search, for full details of our GDPR policy, please refer to the b3 jobs website.

b3 jobs is a professional, friendly, and progressive food recruitment consultancy established in 2000 dedicated to the food manufacturing industry. We are a market leader for permanent jobs within food and drink manufacturing throughout the UK. All our consultants have considerable recruitment experience, so you can be confident they have your best interests at heart when finding the perfect job for you.

Alternative job titles

Multiskilled Engineer | Maintenance Technician | Manufacturing Engineer | Production Engineer | Electrical Engineer | Maintenance Engineer | Mechanical Engineer | FMCG Engineering Jobs | Food Production Engineering Jobs | Multi-skilled Engineer

Company

Since 2000, b3 jobs has been helping to further 1000s of people’s careers within the food manufacturing industry, throughout the whole of the UK. As one of the leading specialist food manufacturing recruitment agencies, b3 jobs cover all disciplines both permanent and interim and from graduates to MD’s,

Our core values are always:

  • to find the very best job for you - not us!
  • to give you friendly, ethical, honest and expert recruitment services
  • to advise and not pressurise, so that you can make the right decisions for you

We genuinely strive to provide you with what you want – a job that not only offers the salary you’re after, but also the career progression and job satisfaction that makes going to work all the more worthwhile. Enough trumpet blowing though – visit our website to read just some of our happy previous candidate testimonials - we are more than happy to let our reputation precede us!

For a full up to date list of our jobs, visit www.b3jobs.co.uk

Food Industry Graduates

If you are graduating soon and looking for your first job in food manufacturing, have a look at our Graduate Resource Hub on the b3 jobs website.

https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/graduates

Here you will find everything you need to get started on searching for a new position, from CV and cover letter writing tips, sample food industry job descriptions, informative and entertaining blog posts, useful links and even live graduate vacancies you can apply for.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01435 866000
Location
Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB

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