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Are you a Mechanical Engineer - either from an on-site maintenance or field service background - with experience of providing repair, maintenance, service and support of industrial equipment? We're a well established British engineering company who offer full after sales & service support to the clients of a major Italian packaging machinery manufacturer.

BASIC SALARY: Up to £50,000 Base

BENEFITS:
· Overtime to earn circa £10,000 (paid door to door)
· Generous Car Allowance
· Full company benefits package

LOCATION: Covering the UK & Ireland 70%, but factory based in Corby 30% of the time.

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Corby, Peterborough, Northampton, Stamford, Leicester, Lincoln, Bedford

JOB DESCRIPTION: Mechanical Service Engineer, Maintenance Engineer - Packaging Machinery, Industrial Capital Equipment

A classic field Service Engineer role involving repair, refurbishment, upgrades, installations and commissioning of a range of packaging machinery supplied to the food, pharmaceutical and other manufacturing industries.

Travelling to client sites 70% of the time, and spending 1 to 2 nights away from home per week on average, but weekend work is voluntary so we offer a good work life balance.

Time spent at the workshop in Corby roughly 30%.

PERSON SPECIFICATION: Mechanical Service Engineer, Maintenance Engineer - Packaging Machinery, Industrial Capital Equipment

· You WILL be an experienced Field Service or Maintenance Engineer of industrial or special purpose machinery.
· You MUST be a qualified Mechanical Engineer / completed a full mechanical apprenticeship.
· Any electrical engineering qualifications or experience would be a bonus.

Exposure, or previous hands experience of packaging machinery would be an obvious advantage - ideally in the food and / or pharmaceutical sectors - but we're open on any special purpose industrial machinery experience.

THE COMPANY:

A small and very well established British engineering company who offer full after sales and service support to the clients of a major Italian packaging machinery manufacturer. This role is a new role to cover for future retirement. A really nice place to work and a client of mine for over 20 years!

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Field Service Engineer, Site Based Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Multiskilled Engineer - Industrial Capital Equipment, Special Purpose Machinery, PPMA, Automate UK, Packaging Machinery, Process Machinery, Food, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Chemical

INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.

Wallace Hind Selection, alongside our client embrace diversity, champion equality, and foster inclusion to create a work environment where everyone belongs and thrives.

Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.

REF: SP18122, Wallace Hind Selection

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