Press Service Engineer – Electrical

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies on an ongoing basis.
More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature. It is therefore in your interest to email your CV, as a Word document, depending on your sector, to:

• Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk
• Head of Print recruitment – Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk
• Head of 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 in the near future as soon as a good match to your skill set and experience becomes available.

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Role reporting to our prestigious Client’s Service Manager
There is no ‘call out’ rota and attendance is ‘shift requirement only’.
Salary: Negotiable, (for guidance: between £30/35k pa).

Role Function:

The successful Engineer will be responsible for the installation, repair and servicing of our Client’s presses at customer sites..

The role will involves extensive travel throughout the UK with the potential for travel through Northern Europe.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential:-

– HNC or equivalent in Electrical Engineering
– Experience of process control electronics, PLCs and diagnostics using a variety of software applications.

Preferred / not essential:-

– Print industry background, with a full understanding of how printing systems integrate.

Job Responsibilities

The successful Electrical Engineer are responsible for the electrical installation, repair and servicing of our Client’s presses at customer sites.

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 electrical 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 electrical 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 electrical 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.

Knowledge and Key Skills Required:

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).

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