Field Service Engineer

Elopak is one of the big names in the world of liquid food & drink packaging serving a wide range of household brands known all over the globe. We offer a fantastic place to work with significant opportunities for personal and professional career development. Due to new packaging lines, we are looking for an additional Field Service Engineer to cover the UK & Ireland Market Unit.

The role is field based across UK and Ireland with some possibilities of European travel. You will be performing site support, breakdown assistance, and work on planned maintenance activities on various sites on Elopak liquid filling machines.

In the first 3 – 6 months there will be training planned in Germany & Norway where Elopak has manufacturing / test centres as well as ‘on the job’ training on several sites across UK & Ireland.

It is essential the successful candidate appreciates this is not exclusively an 08.00-16.00 job. We are a customer focused business, and as such we must react to the customer’s needs. This occasionally means working long days and short notice weekends when required. You will be compensated/rewarded for your flexibility.

Accountabilities

• Ambassador for Elopak at the customer site.
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance with other Elopak & Site engineers.
• Day to day machinery fault diagnosis and repairs.
• Liaising & assisting site departments by participating and contributing in meetings.
• Developing SOPs and learning documents to share best practice across customer shifts with respect to maintenance and operation of the packaging line.
• Undertake, drive, and support maintenance improvement activities.
• Liaise with central spares supply for the provision of spares and planned maintenance packages.
• Support the development of a high performance, flexible, “can do” culture.
• Identify CI opportunities.
• Review and develop safety and maintenance procedures.
• Record all maintenance activities within maintenance management system (CRM).
• Maintenance prioritisation and planning.
• Monitor and analyse machine data to improve performance.
• Identify critical spares for designated machines.
• Refurbish spares as required.
• Some working at heights, restrictive spaces & as a lone worker.
• Manage upgrade works of the filling lines.
• Controlling maintenance tools, stores and equipment.
• Monitoring and controlling maintenance costs.
• Writing, reviewing & updating maintenance SOP’s & job tasks.
• Work in a safe manner following all company / site

Key skills, knowledge and Competencies

• Proactive & self-managed engineer with a professional and ‘can do’ attitude.
• Excellent communication skills with various demographics of customers and colleagues.
• Take pride in their work.
• Able to work as a team with colleagues and with external contractors.
• Good understanding of LEAN, Continuous Improvements, HACCP, Food Safety protocols.
• Comply with health, safety, hygiene, and 5S standards policies and practices always, to ensure standards are maintained.
• Committed to a CI environment.
• Support a learning environment for operators and engineers.
• Data analysis for efficiencies.
• Good IT literacy and reporting using computerised maintenance systems.
• Decisive and able to challenge when required.
• Work under own initiative and prioritise work tasks effectively.
• Interface effectively with a variety of departments and individuals.
• Strong organisational skills with a structured and systematic approach.
• Adhering to deadlines, able to work on own initiative and prioritise workload effectively.

Key Experience and Qualifications

• Recognised apprenticeship, NVQ3 or equivalent engineering qualification.
• Proven fault finding and maintenance of high-speed production / filling equipment within a FMCG environment is desirable.
• Multi-disciplined engineer with detailed knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and PLC controls systems.
• Fast efficient learner.
• Good numeracy, literacy and verbal communication skills.
• Aseptic process / filling knowledge would be advantageous but not necessary.

We Offer

Make a Difference: In this role, your contributions will make a notable difference, enhancing our service quality and customer satisfaction

Empowerment and Freedom to Create Your Job: At Elopak, you are empowered to make decisions and innovate. We value those who take initiative and drive change to improve our service delivery.

Career Success and Opportunities: With your competence, integrity, and global mindset, you have every opportunity to succeed and grow within Elopak. We offer opportunities for international career development and progression.

If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity in a fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you!

Applications will be processed consecutively, with a final deadline 26th of June 2025.

We look forward to hearing from you!