Job Title: Press Service Engineer – Mechanical
Salary: Competitive Salary plus Car, Overtime & Benefits
Location: UK Wide
Reference: GYJ1937
Contact: Gary Young
Telephone: 0141 647 6688
Categories: Print, All Locations, Production/Technical, Equipment
Field Service Engineer role with sheetfed press experience required.
Role reporting to our prestigious Client’s Service Manager
There is no ‘call out’ rota and attendance is ‘shift requirement only’.
Salary: Negotiable – (client has been short-listing candidates with basic salary expectations ranging between £30/35k pa).
Role Function:
The successful Mechanical Engineer will be responsible for the installation, repair and servicing of our Client’s presses at customer sites.
Qualifications & Experience:
Essential:-
HNC or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering
Preferred:-
Print industry background, with a full understanding of how printing systems integrate.
Main Responsibilities
Technical:-
Install presses at customer sites in line with work schedules and customer installation requirements, liaising closely with the Project Engineer and other members of the installation team.
Respond to technical requests from customers, making appropriate diagnoses and suitable recommendations to resolve technical queries/issues in a timely manner.
Carry out pre-planned service interventions.
Refer to comprehensive reference documentation, in addition to assistance from other members of the service team to overcome any difficulties.
Accurately report on each assignment, providing full details of the actions taken and outstanding requirements, if any.
Customer Relationships:-
Liaise with senior customer staff, communicating the exact nature of the technical requirements of the job and ensuring that the scope of the work is agreed before work begins.
Maintain good working relationships with customers, being mindful that mechanical engineers are representatives of the Company.
Promote the Company’s pro-active service products and training to customers, reporting any potential leads to the Service Manager.
Teamwork:-
Work as a member of the service team, ensuring that all work is completed on time and to appropriate quality standards, as defined by internal service management procedures.
Health & Safety:-
Take reasonable care of own Health & Safety at work, and that of others, and co-operate with Company arrangements.
Skills & Abilities
Essential:-
Strong communication skills
Technical problem-solving skills
Initiative
High standards of work
Ability to work under pressure
Flexibility to travel extensively to cover the customer base
Willingness to work away from home on a regular basis
Willingness to work overtime on a regular basis
Competitive Basic Salary + overtime
Benefits are company car, pension, life assurance, sick pay, 25 days holidays (plus bank holidays).
***Please supply CV in word rather than PDF***
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This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-
Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk
Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk
Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk
Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –
George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk
Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.
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