Field Service Engineer (Packaging Machinery)
hace 16 días
Biggleswade
GBR Recruitment Ltd, are working exclusively with a one of the UK’s well established & highly respected flexible packaging machinery businesses, recruiting for an experienced multi-skilled Field Service Engineer with both Mechanical & Electrical (Electrical bias) skills to install, maintain & repair a variety of semi-automatic & automatic equipment, made by leading, high-quality business partnering brands from Europe. Many of the employees have represented this business for a minimum of 20 years, displaying fantastic longevity amongst the current workforce, as this company is people centric & really invests in its people. As the company’s Field Service Engineer, you will work with both SME & Major National clients, working on their Vertical (VFFS) and Horizontal (HFFS) form fill & seal machinery, flow wrapping machinery, semi and automatic banding system machines, automatic bag forming & bag filling machinery, automatic sleeve wrapping and shrink wrapping lines, & other associated machinery, most with PLC controls (Mitsubishi & Siemens PLC’s). You will get to test your engineering skills across an array of differing machinery, from entry level models & mid-range options, through to larger, high-volume, high-speed machinery, giving you variety in your working day. This role is both field based (UK wide) & Workshop based, so flexibility is required. Duties: • Install, service, modify, fault find & repair flexible packaging machinery on UK customers sites or in the head office workshop, • Working with PLC-controlled systems, including diagnostics & modification (hardware, environmental & protective repairs, no programming), • Troubleshooting electrical & mechanical faults, replacing parts & components, • Proactively managing scheduled maintenance of machines, • Liaising with customers on-site to ensure smooth handover & ongoing technical support, • Training customers to use the machinery & to get the optimal usage out of the machines, • Maintaining accurate service records & updating maintenance logs, • A time served multi-skilled Engineer from the packaging / print machinery industry, • Level 3 NVQ in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, • Experienced in working with 3 phase electrical power supplies is imperative, • 18th Edition wiring regulations – must be able to read wiring diagrams, • Strong Mechanical Engineering skills, • Previous experience of working on automated flow wrappers, banders, bag formers, bag fillers, shrink wrapping machinery & similar would be preferable, • PLC knowledge (not a programmer), • Ideally you should have thermal inkjet printers, pneumatics, conveyor & sealing systems experience, • Machine setting & operating skills, • Happy to work field based covering the UK & also in the workshop, • Used to giving technical advice to clients, as well as operator training, • Able to communicate effectively & professionally at all levels, • Occasional overseas travel to Europe for machine training and line approvals Interviews to take place immediately, with an ASAP start