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mojo · Senior Joined: 01 Oct 2011 Posts: 2404

Field Application Engineer (Automation)
Field Application Engineer (Automation)

(Robots, Vision Systems, PCL's, Production & Automated Lines, Conveyors, Materials Handling)

Territory: UK based role covering UK & Ireland.

£30,000 - £38,000 (DOE), Expensed Mercedes, 20 days leave rising to 30 plus bank holidays, phone, laptop, pension and health care.

Your opportunity is with the UK's leading supplier of automation products such as robots supplied into a variety of industries ranging from Plastics, Automotive, Manufacturing and Pharmaceutical.

With a global turnover exceeding well over £750 million, my client has established themselves as a market leader within their field, and they set the standards with designing innovative and cutting edge solutions for systems integrators and end user customers.

Over the past 4 years this business has organically grown by 15% year on year and in-order for them to sustain this growth, they need to strengthen the Field Application Engineering Team by recruiting a self-motivated and technically astute Field Application Engineer.

Field Application Engineer - (Automation):

1. Reporting to the Automation Manager your role will be 15% based in the office and 85% field based supporting commercial & technical activities.
2. Provide technical support to customers & systems integrators from the office or system integrator site.
3. Provide application technical support as part of sales & after sales processes.
4. As a Field Application Engineer you will take a lead role in obtaining the relevant technical information from the enquiry.
5. You will need to understand the end application of the automation system such as; speeds, cycle times, platforms and the integrated application.
6. From there you will provide the client with a simulation / demonstration of the automation system using in-house simulation software.
7. You will also provide office & site based support to the end customer including the programming of automation systems (training provided).
8. You will work closely with systems integrators as a Field Application Engineer to integrate your products with the end application.
9. Providing training to customers and system partners as well as programming & assisting in the install of automation systems.

Experience & background required:

1. Field Application Engineer or Technical Support Engineer.
2. Must have worked within the field of automation - Robots, Vision Systems, PLC's, Automation Lines, Production Line or Materials Handling Lines, anywhere where there is an automation system.
3. Software or programming skills is highly desirable.
4. Based close to a motorway network and willing to travel 85% of the time.

Benefits:

As the Automation Field Application Engineer you will be given full autonomy within this role in accordance to the overall group strategy.

You will receive an puternice training programme both in the UK and at their European HQ to ensure you become an expert within their field. Over the next 12 / 18 months my client is looking to introduce a layer of middle management which you will be considered for.

My client operates in over 20 countries world-wide therefore, you will also have plenty of opportunities to move into an international role as well as moving into one of their global subsidiaries.

How to Apply:
For further information, please contact Ajay Bhella at ATA Recruitment in Leicester on 0116 216 7000 or alternatively, please email me an up to date copy of your CV

Salary £30,000 - £38,000 (DOE), Expensed Mercedes, 20 day
Location UK, Great Britain
Job Type Permanent
Start Date ASAP
Duration Permanent
Ref No 128097-8618-SE-612-AB
Date Advertised 17 Oct 2014
Apply:
http://www.jobsite.co.uk/job/field-application-engineer-automation-952072606