Service Engineer

The Company

Our client has been established for over 70 years now and are one of the top three global manufacturers of Induction Heating solutions with major success recently in the Automotive and Aerospace industries. With 21 global offices and the first year of their 5-year strategy successfully completed, our client is looking to add a competent service engineer/technician to assist in supporting their ever-growing customer base.

The Position:

Reporting to the UK Engineering Manager, the successful candidate will perform system troubleshooting, repairs and start up assistance on our client’s range of induction heating systems. Principal accountabilities to include:

• Repair of equipment across several product lines, both in-house and at client sites throughout the UK and Offshore
• Providing on-site and in-house product training for customers
• Special applications setup and testing in the field
• Customer interaction and daily remote troubleshooting and diagnostics
• Based from our client’s UK headquarters in West Midlands. This position will involve regular travel, including offshore work. Offshore work is expected to be on average 1 week in 4 but may vary on length, however, will not last longer than 21 days at any given time due to regulations.

The Candidate:

Applicants will be expected to be capable of demonstrating:

• A minimum qualification in electronics (HNC/HND or Degree educated)
• Knowledge of high power and RF circuitry
• Knowledge of troubleshooting techniques (to component level) and familiarity with troubleshooting equipment, DVM, oscilloscopes and temperature monitoring equipment
• Fluent written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to interpret schematic wiring diagrams, water flow diagrams and-lay out drawings
• The ability to check mechanical work to CAD drawing blueprints
• Ideally experienced in induction heating
• Strong electronic knowledge across analogue, digital and microprocessor circuits, power devices and related circuits, motors and general AC wiring and (ideally) PLCs
• Ideally have some mechanical background too across fixturing, temperature, pressure and water flow monitoring equipment