Field Service Engineer

Stevenage
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Field Service Engineer

Hertfordshire

£43,000 – £48,000 + overtime
Full time, permanent

This is a fantastic opportunity for to join a growing engineering business supporting customers across healthcare, pharmaceutical and industrial environments. The Field Service Engineer will be supporting healthcare, life sciences and pharmaceutical customers. You’ll be working on clean air and containment equipment that directly supports hospitals and other critical environments. You’ll be working on specialist equipment, carrying out service, maintenance, commissioning and validation work.

The Business

Work on specialist clean air and containment equipment that directly supports hospitals, healthcare and life sciences environments
Join a well-established and growing engineering business with long term stability and continued investment
Realistic regional travel with jobs planned in advance and minimal overnight stays
Excellent training and development including structured onboarding, factory training and funded P601 qualification
Door to door overtime with enhanced weekend rates
The Role

As a Field Service Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Servicing, maintaining, commissioning and repairing specialist engineering equipment
• Electrical fault finding and diagnostics on control systems
• Carrying out validation and compliance testing to industry standards
• Completing service reports and technical documentation accurately
• Working directly with customers on site and representing the business professionally
• Supporting installation and project teams where required

You will work on equipment including:

• Microbiological safety cabinets
• Horizontal and vertical laminar flow cabinets
• Positive and negative pressure isolators
• Glove boxes and powder control booths
• Fume cupboards and air showers
• Clean rooms and containment suites
• Air handling systems and controls
• Operating theatres and transportable sterile suites

Your day to day will involve:

• Fault finding, diagnostics and repairs
• Pressure decay testing and installations
• Commissioning and validation work
• Completing service documentation and reports
• Building strong working relationships with repeat customers
• Working independently on most jobs, with 2 to 3 engineer teams on larger projects

Requirements of the Field Service Engineer:

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:

Mechanical or Electrical qualifications such as HNC, HND, NVQ or BTEC
A solid electrical or electromechanical engineering background
Strong fault finding and problem-solving skills
At least 2 years’ experience as a Field Service Engineer within regulated environments such as healthcare, pharmaceutical or cleanrooms
A full UK driving licence
Flexibility to travel, including occasional out of hours customer visits (paid at enhanced overtime rates)
Highly desirable experience includes:

ISO 9001 quality systems or GMP environments
Maintaining or certifying equipment to BS EN 12469, ISO 14644, HTM 03-01 or P601 standards
PLC based control systems
IEE 18th Edition
Validation procedures including IQ and OQ
Control and instrumentation systems
Calibration systems
Laboratory or biomedical equipment
If you thrive in regulated, high specification environments and are looking for a well-supported field service role with strong training and overtime structure, I’d love to speak with you.

Find out more about this opportunity or discuss how I can help you further your career.

Please contact Adele Lewis or click Apply Now
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