Field Engineer (Heavy Plant)

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

We appreciate your interest and look forward to speaking with you.

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