Field Service Engineer – Mechanical / Hydraulic
Location: Mobile role – North UK travel | Pay: c£20.00 per hour (DOE) + overtime
Company van + travel + tools + expenses covered
Looking for a hands-on engineering role that gets you out on site, working on real machinery instead of the same equipment every day?
This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing engineering team working on recycling and material handling equipment across the UK, including shredders, balers, conveyors, compactors and hydraulic systems.
You’ll be installing, servicing, fault-finding and refurbishing a wide range of mechanical and hydraulic equipment on customer sites, as well as supporting workshop rebuild work when required. Every job is different, and you’ll be trusted to work independently while delivering a high standard of engineering support.
This isn’t just another service role – it’s a long-term opportunity in a specialist sector where reliability, problem-solving and practical skills really matter.
Pay & Benefits
- Competitive hourly rate depending on experience
- Overtime available
- Company vehicle / travel covered
- Tools, PPE, uniform and accommodation provided when working away
- Full-time hours + additional overtime opportunities
- Training provided on specialist equipment
- Long-term stable position with a growing business
What you’ll be doing
- Installation of new and refurbished recycling / waste handling equipment
- Service inspections in line with company procedures
- Mechanical stripping, rebuilding and refurbishment of machinery
- Hydraulic fault finding and repair
- Breakdown response and on-site troubleshooting
- Dry and wet commissioning of equipment
- Operator training on installed machinery
- Completing worksheets, reports and timesheets electronically
- Carrying out root cause analysis on faults
- Travelling to customer sites across the UK (overnight stays required at times)
- Working alone or as part of an engineering team
What you’ll need
- Strong mechanical engineering background
- Experience working on plant, recycling, waste, material handling or heavy equipment ideal
- Hydraulic fault finding experience preferred
- Ability to work independently on customer sites
- Comfortable travelling and staying away when required
- Full UK driving licence
- Good problem-solving skills
- Basic IT skills (reports completed on mobile device)
- Own general hand tools (specialist tools provided)
- Positive attitude and strong work ethic
- Desirable (not essential)
- Experience with recycling / waste equipment
- Previous field service engineer experience
- Workshop rebuild / refurbishment experience
- Root cause fault analysis experience
Interested? Apply now with your CV or contact us for a confidential discussion.
You don’t need direct recycling industry experience (desirable) – if you’ve worked on heavy machinery, plant, hydraulics or industrial equipment, we want to hear from you.
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