Field Service Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title: Field Service Engineer

Location: Field-based (UK-wide travel)
Hours: 40 hours a week – Mon-Fri

Salary: £35000-£45000 DOE
Contract Type: Permanent

Frontline Recruitment is hiring a skilled and motivated Field Service Engineer to join our client’s service team. This role involves working across a range of customer sites, providing technical support, maintenance, and installation services for industrial equipment.

The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring equipment reliability, customer satisfaction, and high service standards through both reactive and planned maintenance activities.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary (experience dependent)
• Overtime opportunities available
• Performance-related pay structure
• Travel expenses covered
• Company vehicle provided (with private use subject to policy)
• Fuel card and company credit card
• Private healthcare
• Pension scheme with employer contribution
• Generous holiday allowance
• Supportive working environment with opportunities for development

Key Responsibilities:

• Fault finding, diagnosis, and repair of equipment
• Responding to breakdowns and carrying out reactive maintenance
• Performing planned maintenance and routine servicing
• Carrying out unplanned maintenance as required
• Replacing and repairing components
• Installation and commissioning of equipment
• Providing operator training and system handovers
• Completing service reports and related administrative tasks

Requirements:

• Willingness to work in a mobile, field-based role
• Home-based with travel to customer sites
• Flexible approach to overtime and occasional overnight stays
• Multi-skilled engineer with a preference for electrical bias
• Knowledge of electrical systems, PLCs, mechanical systems, hydraulics, and pneumatics
• Relevant technical qualifications or completed apprenticeship (or equivalent experience)
• Good IT skills
• Strong communication skills and a professional approach when dealing with customers
• Ability to work independently and as part of a wider engineering team
• High attention to detail and pride in quality of work

Frontline Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer, and we act as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. This vacancy may close early due to high application volumes. If you do not hear from us within two weeks, please assume your application has not been successful this time