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
(phone number removed)
(url removed)
We appreciate your interest and look forward to speaking with you.
INDTE
Salary description
£46000.00 - £47000.00 per year