Service Engineer

  • Wallace Hind Selection LTD
  • Mar 25, 2026
Full time Engineering

Job Description

Are you an experienced multi skilled Field Service or Maintenance Engineer with hands on exposure to tablet presses / pill pressing capital equipment? Are you looking for a fresh opportunity, where your time is valued and quality of life is as important as doing a great job? We're a well established and respected UK office for high quality, German manufactured capital equipment into the pharmaceutical sector.

BASIC SALARY: Up to £60,000

BENEFITS:
Holiday package - rising with service
Annual bonus based on company performance
Full access to company benefits scheme including pension scheme & healthcare

LOCATION: UK based - ideally on the motorway network, but we're really open for the right individual.

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, London, Luton, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Oxford, Cambridge, Peterborough, Leicester Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool

WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY?:
Working days Monday to Friday. Get your evenings and weekends back!
80% scheduled work - know where you'll be and when
Home based, Field Service Engineer role with regular work from home - remote support days.

JOB DESCRIPTION: Service Engineer, Multi skilled Field Engineer - Special Purpose Machinery, Process Capital Equipment - Pharmaceutical - Tablet Presses, Pill Pressing capital equipment

Most of your time is scheduled - so you'll know where you'll be - and when you'll be back. YOUR quality of life is important to us.
Home based providing scheduled maintenance and calibration services (80%) to customers across UK and Ireland. Occasional week long projects for install, commissioning, training of equipment into client sites alongside a German engineer from the principal.
You are also happy to provide account management / technical customer support remotely.

PERSONAL SPECIFICATION: Service Engineer, Multi skilled Field Engineer - Special Purpose Machinery, Process Capital Equipment - Pharmaceutical - Tablet Presses, Pill Pressing capital equipment

Multi skilled Service / Maintenance Engineer with experience of Tablet Presses or Pill Pressing capital equipment The perfect match would be with experience of this specific equipment in a pharmaceutical setting.
Any exposure to PLC's (Allen Bradley, Schneider or particularly Siemens) would be a bonus. Most PLC work is plug and play however.
Good communication skills and the flexibility to stay away 1-3 nights per week are a must.

THE COMPANY:

We specialise in the supply of tablet presses, filling lines and associated machinery to the pharmaceutical sector. We've a large installed user base of circa 300 lines across the UK and we supply, install, commission and validate across the whole range. In addition to this, we offer machine calibration, training and comprehensive maintenance contracts.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Tablet Presses / Pill Pressing capital equipment, Field Service Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical Service, Electrical Service, Multi Skilled Field Service Engineer - Special Purpose Equipment, Capital Machinery, PPMA, Automate UK, Process, Packaging, Manufacturer, Controls, Siemens, Allen Bradley, Schneider PLC.

INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.

Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.

REF: SP18427 - Wallace Hind Selection