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Field Service Engineer

West Bromwich
2 weeks ago
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Electronic Field Service Engineer

West Bromwich, West Midlands

Monday to Friday (Apply online only))

£30,000 - £36,000 DOE

Competitive salary, Company pension, Overtime (where applicable) Generous Holiday allowance and Company vehicle / Car Allowance

An Electronic Engineering firm has an exciting opportunity for a Field Service Engineer to join their Engineering Team.

This opportunity offers security and stability in the current economic climate, with training and development whilst being supported by a friendly and welcoming team.

Responsibilities

Service and repair of industrial Electronic Equipment, including PLCs, AC: DC Drives, CNCs, HMI's, Automated Process Machines, Servo Drives, Printer Circuit Boards, ABB Robots, Fanuc machinery and Electrical Sensors
To apply a professional, reactive and proactive service to customers.
To fault find and problem-solve responsibly and methodically whilst ensuring customer satisfaction.
To be flexible in working to customers deadlines and demands
To ensure all relevant paperwork is completed accurately and within the correct timescales.
Approximately 60% of workload will be based within the central workshop (West Bromwich) and 40% travelling to and from customer sites within West Midlands region and occasionally furtherSkills required

Excellent customer service skills
Good industrial electronics knowledge, including PLC skills across many platforms (programming of PLCs is not essential)
Ability to work alone and in a team environment
Good communication skills
Clean driving license (essential)
Ideally time-served as a multiskilled or electrically biased maintenance engineer
Background or previous experience within Aerospace, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Chemical and Food is advantageous
Ideally NVQ Level 3 Electrical Engineering qualified or similar
A minimum of three to five years industry experienceCompany Information

Our client is an Electronic Engineering firm, with a wide customer base across the West Midlands region.

If interested in the above opportunity, please forward your CV to Tom Phillips at Hunter Selection via

If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business

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