Alfa Laval UK and Ireland are currently recruiting for a Field Service Commissioning Engineer with a good level of both, electrical and mechanical skills. The focus will be on Decanters as well as other core equipment in the Alfa Laval product range.

About us

At Alfa Laval, we always go the extra mile to overcome the toughest challenges. Our driving force is to accelerate success for our customers, people and planet. We make it happen by having dedicated people with a curious mind. Curiosity is the spark behind great ideas. And great ideas drive progress. As a member of our team, you thrive in an open inclusive workplace, based on diversity with a sense of belonging. This is where you can make a difference by constantly building bridges to the future with sustainable solutions that have an impact on our planet’s most urgent problems. Making the world a better place. Every day.

What you can expect

You can expect a working environment that is dynamic, collaborative, innovative and offers incredible scope. Whether in terms of skills and knowledge, career path or location, you can grow where you are or anywhere in the world. Our products are highly engineered and we’re proud of what they can do and how they enable our customers to maximise their productivity and competitiveness. We’re also a long-established leader in the field. That all makes for a complex global environment in which, if you’re equally productive and ambitious, you’ll be supported to thrive. Our culture is secure and offers ever-evolving opportunity: people stay with us because they can choose many ways in which to grow and develop. Our curiosity and ambition to innovate means that we welcome new ideas and challenge traditional thinking, every day and in every way. We’re excited about looking forward to see what’s next, always evolving responsibly and sustainably. And we do it all in the spirit of equality and trust, where everyone has a contribution to make, proactively and confidently.

About the job

We’re a long established, world leading company with even bigger ambitions. So we have much more potential to achieve and products to innovate – responsibly and sustainably.

Our team of Field Service Engineers are on the front line of customer support, carrying out servicing, maintenance and commissioning of Alfa Laval equipment and associated products. The Field Service Engineers must ensure a high quality service to customers at all times.

You will be home based attending customer sites across the UK and Ireland as required. Overnight stays are a regular occurrence as part of this role and some of our activities may require you to work offshore. You will also be expected to participate in our 24 hour call out system and work some weekends.

Working on high speed rotating equipment providing field service support, trouble shooting and training at customer locations on the mechanical, electrical, and electronic components of Decanters ensuring reliable operation, optimum performance and efficiency. This includes performing preventive maintenance, emergency and warranty repairs, installation supervision and commissioning of new equipment, system audits, process troubleshooting and technical support.

Your duties will include:

• Commissioning, servicing and fault finding of new and existing equipment.
• Performing I/O tests on control equipment.
• Performing electrical and mechanical fault finding on our equipment.
• Performing trial test runs when work is completed to ensure performance rates and quality meet established specifications.
• Documenting the equipment serviced, parts used and travel/site hours to support customer invoicing.
• Performing preventive mechanical maintenance service calls on customer equipment.
• Assist and train customer maintenance and supervisory personnel on how to operate our equipment and perform maintenance tasks.
• Providing process and technical support to the department and customers
• Working with the sales team on equipment audits on customer sites to generate new business
• Meeting KPIs for the service team in areas such as submission of job reports and timesheets

About you

Candidates for this role should have completed a recognised apprenticeship, or have reached a minimum level of technical training i.e. City and Guilds/NVQ/BTEC/Degree.

You must be able to demonstrate a strong working background in mechanical and electrical 

maintenance, ideally with separation equipment would be beneficial but not essential.

You should have a high level of competence with respect to, electronic equipment testing, fault finding, exposure to SCADA, PLC’s and an ability to read schematic diagrams is essential.

Desirable skills include: work on automated production lines, generators, compressors, pumps . Exposure to Alfa Laval core equipment would be advantageous.

Previous industry backgrounds could include waste water, food and brewery, food processing plants, power stations, factory automation, marine or military.

You will be self-motivated, details orientated and numerate. You must be able to demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills, good organisation and planning and enjoy working alone.

Candidates must be able to spend several nights away from home as required. Due to the nature of the work, including the environment in which the work is often carried out, the candidate should have a good level of physical fitness. A full driving licence is also essential.

The role requires daily use of a laptop (provided by the company) and it is essential that you are PC literate and comfortable using these technologies.

The base area for the role is UK mainland with a willingness to travel across the UK as required. Ideally the chosen candidate will be based in the central belt of the UK.

Alfa Laval UK&I currently provides a wide range of benefits, schemes, and initiatives to our employees including:

•    Holiday entitlement of 25 days + Bank holidays
•    Simply Health – Health cash plan available to enter worth over £2500 annually
•    Life Assurance – 4X annual salary when you remain in the pension
•    Training and Career Development potential
•    Cycle to work scheme
•    Tech scheme benefit

We care about diversity, inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioural traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.

This role will remain open until a suitable candidate has been chosen.

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