SERVICE ENGINEER

Probe Technical are looking to recruit a full time and permanent Technical Support Engineer to join a world leading supplier in their field. Privately owned, their global reach extends to 20 countries, and in the UK they develop and manufacture bespoke products which are exported around the world.

This is a great opportunity to join them in a key role as Technical Support Engineer, where you would provide a proactive, effective, and efficient technical service and customer complaint root cause analysis function within the business. The successful candidate with clear focus and direction will ensure all deliverables are achieved, on time and to the highest quality standards within a rapidly growing and developing organisation.

The excellent package details for the role of Technical Support Engineer include:

• Salary £46,000 + Bonus
• Monday – Friday hours are 7am – 4.15pm Monday – Thursday and Friday 7am – 12pm 
• Company Pension 
• Enhanced Annual leave of 24 + 8 days holiday increasing with length of service to 26
• 4x Death in Service 
• Private Medical Insurance after 12 months 

To make a successful Technical Support Engineer you will be a very driven individual with a proven track record in a technical electro / mechanical fault-finding and Service work whilst also being able to lead and develop a small team. Experience with an ERP system such as SAP is essential along with a minimum of HNC in Mechanical or Electronics. Other key duties involve:

• Co-ordinate all activities within the Service / CCF department such as primary investigations, and corrective action
• Processing customer enquiries for mechanical, electrical, documentation and testing requirements according to agreed procedures.
• Quotations for service work and spares to the required specifications.
• The requirement of quick response times to customer complaint enquiries is essential to sales companies and end customers, therefore the role is measured against agreed KPIs.
• Ensure primary inspections are completed in accordance with department service level agreements and that technical clarity is assured.
• Manage end to end all customer complaint investigations through to root cause and prepare suitable technical reports.

The Technical Support Engineer role is commutable from Northampton, Wellingborough, Bedford, Leicester and Peterborough. 

Probe Technical are looking to recruit a full time and permanent Technical Maintenance Engineer to join an experienced and dedicated Engineering Team near Banbury on days Monday – Friday. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to utilise their engineering skills. This role would suit someone ambitious and ready to take the next step in their career.

The package details for the role of Technical Maintenance Engineer include:

• Salary up to £56,000 depending on experience.  
• 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday days 8.30am – 4.30pm
• Pension is 3% paid via salary sacrifice, saving you tax and NI contributions.
• Annual Salary Reviews – an annual pay review is conducted every January.
• Holiday – 23 days plus bank holidays, rising to 25 plus bank holidays after 5 years’ service.

This role has been called a Technical Maintenance Engineer as your main duty is to support the site Engineering Manager. You must be an Apprentice trained Electrical Engineer with Mechanical & Electronical / PLC skills with 17th / 18th Edition qualification.

Other key duties involve:  

• Support the day-to-day maintenance of the site and to assist the Engineering Manager with co-ordinating the safe and efficient operations of the site in accordance with health and safety and legislative requirements.
• To carry out risk assessments of routine maintenance procedures and unplanned works.
• Supporting shift engineers with day to day challenging tasks and looking to resolve in a timely, effective manner 
• Assisting with maintaining the stores and the correct critical spares are kept in stock, and ensuring replacement of parts as required at all times.
• Must be competent in both electrical and mechanical principles
• Must be able to use PLC Control and understand machine data networks 
• Must be able to read mechanical and electrical schematic diagram

The Technical Maintenance Engineer role is commutable from Leicester, Northampton, Corby, Kettering, and Peterborough.

I am looking to recruit a full time and permanent Maintenance Supervisor to join an experienced and dedicated Engineering Team near Banbury on days Monday – Friday. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to utilise their engineering and supervisory skills. This role would suit someone ambitious and ready to take the next step in their career.

The package details for the role of Maintenance Supervisor include:

• Salary up to £58,000 depending on experience.
• 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday days 
• Pension is 3% paid via salary sacrifice, saving you tax and NI contributions.
• Annual Salary Reviews – an annual pay review is conducted every January.
• Holiday – 23 days plus bank holidays, rising to 25 plus bank holidays after 5 years’ service.

This role is to support the site Engineering Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for allocating, co-ordinating, and assessing all shift Engineering work tasks to ensure that maximum value. They will supervise the Engineering team and will also provide relief legal duty holder cover for the Engineering Manager.

Desirable Skills involve:

• High volume manufacturing experience to include continuous processes and batch processes
• Significant experience of working with a maintenance background
• Experience in electrical and mechanical fault finding
• Planned maintenance systems and procedures development experience
• Well-developed and well-rounded management and leadership skills, being a true team player
• Proven continuous improvement skills
• Apprentice trained Electrical Engineer with Mechanical & Electronic / PLC skills
• 17th / 18th Edition qualification

The Maintenance Supervisor role is commutable from Leicester, Northampton, Corby, Kettering, and Peterborough.

Contract Instrumentation Technician – Required for an Immediate Start 

Benefits Available for a Contract Instrumentation Technician

• Negotiable Hourly Rate 
• Paid Overtime for all Additional Hours
• Day Working Monday – Friday

Duties of a Contract Instrumentation Technician 

• As a Contract Instrumentation Technician, you will be required to support our team of instrumentation technicians who calibrate and maintain our wide range of instrumentation equipment that is utilised in the monitoring of pressure, flow, temperature and Ph values. 
• The role is hands on but will require you to have experience of supporting junior technicians, maintaining equipment registers and planning projects from conception to final hand over. 

Requirements of a Contract Instrumentation Technician

• Ideally you will have gained your Instrumentation experience of supporting instruments within a heavy engineering or process environment and must have some experience of supporting staff. 
• You ideally you will be apprentice trained, however must qualified to a City & Guilds Part C / NVQ 3 standard within either pure Instrumentation or E&I disciplines. 

This Role is Commutable From: Blackheath, Dudley, Smethwick, Wednesbury, West Bromwich & Oldbury

We are seeking a talented Maintenance Electrician to join our team in the industry. If you have a passion for maintaining and improving equipment in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!

This is an opportunity to join and established organisation with 25+ years in the industry, working with an already established maintenance team. 

The Maintenance Electrician will be required to work the following Shift: Double Days – 6am till 2pm & 2pm till 10pm – Rotating weekly. 

The Maintenance Electrician roles is commutable from the following locations: Wigan / Bolton / Skelmersdale / Warrington 

Benefits the Maintenance Electrician will receive: 

• Pension Contribution up to 8%
• Healthcare 
• 22+8days holiday 
• Staff Discount 
• Food & Drink facilities 
• Plenty of Overtime 

Key Responsibilities for the Maintenance Electrician:  

• Perform scheduled and reactive maintenance on a range of equipment, including PLCs, textile machinery, and sewing equipment.
• Troubleshoot and resolve mechanical, electrical, and software issues effectively.
• Collaborate with production teams to minimize downtime and optimize equipment performance.
• Conduct regular inspections and preventative maintenance tasks to ensure equipment reliability.
• Document maintenance activities and assist in continuous improvement initiatives.

Experience and Qualifications the Maintenance Electrician will hold:

• Proven experience as a Maintenance Engineer in FMCG or textiles environments.
• Strong knowledge of PLC systems and control mechanisms
• Experience with: Hydraulics & Pneumatics, Conveyor systems, Sewing equipment. 
• Welding abilities: MIG / TIG / ARC 
• Able to read Engineering Drawings. 
• Hands-on experience with textile machinery and sewing equipment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work double days and adapt to changing priorities.
• Apprentice trained – holding a Level 3 – City & Guilds / NVQ in Electrical engineering 

Probe Technical Recruitment are recruiting a great opportunity for a proven Maintenance Electrician to join a well-respected employer within the Food Engineering sector. As a Maintenance Electrician you will be required to undertake both planned and reactive maintenance across the plant. This will require you to have experience of supporting plant and equipment within either a fast-paced manufacturing, process, food or production environment and be comfortable in undertaking facilities maintenance work too.

Benefits:

Along with a continental shift pattern of 4 days 4 off 4 nights 4 off 6-6, the Maintenance Electrician role also has a package of:

• Salary £38,000 (hourly rate is £17.50) 
• Paid Overtime at Premium Rates
• Company Pension at 3% company and 5% employee 
• 20 Holiday days 
• Stable Working Environment.

You must be an Electrically qualified Maintenance Engineer or Maintenance Electrician and hold Electrical abilities and some exposure to supporting PLC controls including Siemens S7.

The role of Maintenance Electrician is commutable from Tamworth, Burton on Trent, Derby and Leicester.

If you have hesitated about moving over the past few months, this is a great opportunity to join an organisation that won’t be affected by any potential fallout from the current economic climate. 

Due to expansion, we are seeking to recruit proven Maintenance Supervisor, to support our onsite maintenance team. 

Our company has a respected and established presence in the region for many years, with a low staff turnover we pride ourselves on creating a supportive and stable working environment for our employees and we don’t work shifts !

Benefits Available for a Maintenance Supervisor: 

• Starting Salary of c£50,000 
• Paid Overtime at Premium Rates
• Day Working (Mon – Fri) 
• Employer Pension Contribution 
• 33 Days Holiday
• Early Friday Finish

Duties of a Maintenance Supervisor  

As a Maintenance Supervisor you will be required to lead the maintenance team on a daily basis, ensuring that PM’s are undertaken to schedule whilst also managing breakdown situations, which will require you to have experience of supporting plant and equipment within either a manufacturing, process or production environment. 

Requirements of a Maintenance Supervisor 

You must have gained your experience from working within a manufacturing or production environment with experience of either supervising or managing a maintenance team, managed external contractors, issued permits and also managed a PM structure with the use of CMMS software. 

The role is commutable from: Aston, Birmingham, Edgbaston, Erdington, Harborne, Smethwick & Sutton Coldfield 

Probe Technical Recruitment are recruiting a very exciting opportunity for a Development Engineer for a global manufacturer based near Rutland. We are looking for somebody to manage and assist in development and engineering projects at the site and to provide second line support to the Engineering team. You identify opportunities for improvements and make recommendations to improve machine and process effectiveness.

The benefits package for the Development Engineer role include:

• Base salary would be £37,516.72, with the option of 208 hours contractual overtime giving an extra £5625.36, if the successful candidate wanted to start doing this after completion of their probation period. There could also be some negotiation on the base salary for the right candidate. 
• 33 days holiday
• Auto enrolment pension
• All PPE and training provided
• Company sick pay after one years service, increasing with length of service to a max 24 weeks        

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The key areas for Development Engineer focus: 

• Timed served engineer, electrical bias
• Ideally, a good working knowledge of PLC and servo control systems
• Understand and be able to work with Pneumatics and Hydraulics
• Good computer skills, CAD systems, ideally Auto-Cad would be desirable.
• Have experience on installing and commissioning new pieces of equipment.

We would be very keen to talk to Maintenance Electricians or Development Managers that want to be back hands on based around the Stamford, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, and Grantham. 

Fantastic new opportunity, an opportunity for an Electrical biased Maintenance engineer to Join a Leading Specialist Manufacture. This is an opportunity to join an established organisation who have 50+ years within the industry. This is an award winning organisation who hold a very good track record. 

This is an opportunity for a Driven, motivated engineer who is confident and holds strong electrical abilities. 

The Maintenance electrician role is commutable from the following locations:  Rochdale / Bolton / Manchester / Oldham 

Benefits the Maintenance Electrician will receive: 

Salary: £47.073.20    
6% Pension scheme 
Life Assurance 
33days holiday
Medical Care 
Healthcare
Overtime 

Shift in place: Days – Monday to Friday. 7:30am till 4pm – Early finish on a Friday . 

Call out system in place – you will be required to work a 1in5 call out system. 

Duties and requirements the Maintenance electrician will hold and be responsible for: 

• Previous experience within a similar role is essential to this role. 
• Strong fault-finding abilities. 
• Prove experience within a manufacturing environment. 
• Proven experience with: AC & DC Drives, Installation experience, Wire testing, Panel Building, Instrumentation. 
• Experienced with Siemens PLC’s – strong fault-finding abilities – Programming would be at an advantage.  
• Planned preventive maintenance. 
• Carry out routine servicing and inspection on all production machinery. 
• Carry out essential testing of equipment and systems. 
• Ideally holding experience with ATEX equipment. 
• Ideally, we are looking for a 70/30 split as there will be some mechanical requirements. 
• We are looking for an Apprentice trained maintenance electrician. 
• Holding a Formal qualification in Electrical engineering – City & Guilds Level 3 or NVQ Level 3 
• 17th / 18th IEE Wiring regulations. 
• City & Guilds 2391 Testing