Service Engineer

We are looking for an electrically qualified Service Engineer / Installation Engineer to join our team. You’ll install high quality lifting equipment on customer sites all over the UK and occasionally worldwide. Whether you are on a customer’s site or in our manufacturing facility in the beautiful High Peak countryside, no two days will be the same.

BASIC SALARY: £35,000 - £40,000

BENEFITS:
· Regular overtime - time & a half Saturday’s / double time Sundays
· 4 ½ day working week, with a 12:30 finish on Fridays (36 hours)
· 27 days holiday + Bank Holidays
· Employer Pension contribution
· Company credit card
· Company Vehicle
· Life Assurance

LOCATION: This role is a site based role, so most days you will commute from home with the occasional days based at our High Peak site.

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Stoke-on-Trent, Huddersfield, Rotherham, Stockport, Chesterfield, Mansfield, Barnsley, Macclesfield, Buxton, Bollington, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Glossop, Grindlow, Leek, Chinley, Buxworth, Hayfield, Stoney Middleton, Bakewell, Poynton, Adlington, Prestbury or Matlock.

WHY SHOULD I APPLY?:

· You love variety. No two days are the same - you will travel around the country and sometimes abroad visiting different customer sites.
· You are a thrill seeker and working from heights is no problem for you.
· You want a career not just a job, we have a proven track record of regular promotion.

JOB DESCRIPTION: Installation Engineer, Service Engineer, Commissioning Engineer, Electrical Engineer - Electrical, Electrical installation, Capital Equipment, LEEA

Reporting to the Technical Services Manager you’ll be part of a small, but highly skilled and close knit team, installing and commissioning our world class overhead cranes on customer sites throughout the UK and across the world. When you’re not off on your travels, you’ll be working at our modern manufacturing plant, based in the beautiful countryside of the High Peaks.

This is a very varied role and you’ll find yourself involved in:
· Pre-assembly prior to delivery to site.
· Onsite- installation and testing
· Final commissioning and customer hand-over
· Completion of all H&S and RAMS documentation

This is just a sample of what you’ll be doing, please also consider applying if you have experience of working on:
· Winches, hoists & motors.
· Bearings, gearboxes & clutches.
· Using PLC’s to fault find.

PERSON SPECIFICATION: Installation Engineer, Service Engineer, Commissioning Engineer, Electrical Engineer - Electrical, Electrical installation, Capital Equipment, LEEA

You’ll be a qualified and experienced electrically biased Installation Engineer who is happy working at heights and willing to travel throughout the UK and overseas when required.

You’ll:
· Be an expert with 3 phase motor controls and PLC’s - we use Schnieder, but we’ll cross train you if necessary.
· Ideally be certified 17th edition – this is a preference but not an essential.
· Be an excellent problem solver, able to identify and resolve faults.
· Possess strong organisational skills, taking the lead of both plant & labour on site.

We would particularly welcome applications from anyone with an armed forces background.

Above all, you’ll be highly motivated, always put the customer first and work well as part of a team.

THE COMPANY:

Established in the 1940s, we’re a family run business that has enjoyed huge success and expansion, growing to a global brand. Today, we employ circa 160 people and they are what makes the heart of our business. As a manufacturer & exporter of high value capital equipment our future growth is certain and we’d love you to be a part of our success

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: Installation Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Commissioning Engineer, Service Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Maintenance Engineer - Electrical, Electrical installation, Electrics, Engineering, Maintenance, Capital Equipment, Crane, Gantry Crane, Overhead Crane, Hoist, Machine Installation, Heavy Plant, LEEA, Lifting

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

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: ZH17446, Wallace Hind Selection