| Sector: | Pharmaceutical |
| Ref: | RMS0084758 |
| Job Type: | Permanent |
| Start Date: | ASAP |
| Rate From: | £33,000 |
| Rate To: | £38,000 |
| Description: | Job title: Field Support Engineer
Contract: Permanent
Pay Rate: £33-£38K
Location: Hertfordshire with extensive travel in the UK, Europe and Overseas
Client:
Our client provides bespoke automation solutions to some of the world's leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology organisations.
Role:
Duties include but are not restricted to:
- On-site and remote engineering support for our client's automation products in the UK, Europe and USA as directed.
- Act as first and second line support for field installed base of automation products, including fault finding and rectification.
- Installation and commissioning of product range as required.
- Conduct customer operator and maintenance training products as required.
- Liaison with the Product Support Engineers, Customer Support Engineers and the Technical Support Engineer.
- To install product hardware and software upgrades to already installed customer equipment and obtain customer acceptance.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Either HND or Degree (or equivalent) in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering.
- Formal training in hardware set-up and configuration (PLC and Windows/NT&XP operating environments).
- Field engineering experience would be considered in lieu of a formal qualification.
- Significant and extensive experience in a test or field service/support environment within high-tech engineering/manufacturing company – ideally on capital equipment or special purpose machines
- Experience of electrical and mechanical fault-finding at system and component level
- Understanding of automatic mechanisms and their associated electrical control systems
- Previous experience of operating on-call/call-out/immediate travel, both in and out of normal working hours.
Fircroft is a leading provider of technical recruitment solutions to a number of specialist industries, active in over 40 countries worldwide. Our key sectors include: Oil & Gas, Petrochemical & Process, Automotive & Aerospace, Nuclear & Power, Mining & Minerals and General Engineering |
| Contact: | Toni Inkersole |
| Email: | TInkersole@fircroft.com |