Field Engineer (Heavy Plant)
Location: Newmarket, Suffolk
Salary: £46,000 - £47,000 per annum + Overtime
Hours: Monday to Friday, Day Shift (45 hours per week)
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent
The Opportunity
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Field Service Engineer to join a well-established business operating across East Anglia. This role is ideally suited to a mechanically biased engineer with experience maintaining heavy plant and industrial equipment, looking for a varied position offering strong earning potential, excellent benefits, and long-term career development.
Working across multiple sites, you will be responsible for planned and reactive maintenance, equipment reliability, breakdown response, and supporting ongoing plant improvement projects.
What's on Offer?
- Competitive salary of £46,000 - £47,000 per annum
- Regular overtime available:
- 1.5x standard rate
- 2x rate for Saturday afternoon work
- 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Holiday Buy Scheme
- Company Pension Scheme
- Salary Sacrifice Pension Option to increase contributions
- Company Van and Fuel Card provided
- Travel covered between home, customer sites, and locations across East Anglia
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- Excellent prospects for career progression
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance on heavy plant and site equipment.
- Diagnose and repair mechanical faults to minimise downtime.
- Respond promptly to breakdowns, plant shutdowns, and emergency call-outs.
- Support site improvement projects, equipment upgrades, and reliability initiatives.
- Maintain, inspect, and repair a range of heavy plant machinery.
- Work collaboratively with operations teams, maintenance personnel, and external contractors.
- Travel between sites throughout East Anglia as required.
What We're Looking For
Essential
- Recognised engineering qualification or equivalent hands-on experience within heavy engineering.
- Previous experience working within a heavy industrial, quarrying, recycling, aggregates, waste, manufacturing, or similar environment.
- Strong mechanical maintenance background.
- Solid understanding of hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
- Experience maintaining equipment such as:
- Conveyors
- Crushers
- Screeners
- Excavators
- Dumpers
- Other heavy plant machinery
- Full UK Driving Licence.
Desirable
- Basic electrical fault-finding and maintenance experience.
- Welding and fabrication skills.
- Experience working in a field-based or multi-site maintenance environment.
About Interaction Recruitment
Interaction Recruitment specialises in placing skilled professionals across Technical & Engineering, Industrial, Commercial, Finance & IT, and Hospitality sectors throughout the UK.
For more information about this opportunity, or to discuss other engineering vacancies, please contact:
Julius Okmanas
📞 07791 957500
📧 Julius.Okmanas@irweb.co.uk
We appreciate your interest and look forward to speaking with you.
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