Commissioning Engineer

Alfa Laval UK&I are currently looking for an Field Service Commissioning Engineer to join our team.

Every day, we get opportunities to make a positive impact – on our colleagues, partners, customers, and society. Together, we’re pioneering the solutions of the future and unlocking the full potential of precious resources. Trusted to act on initiative, we challenge conventional thinking to develop world leading technologies that inspire progress in vital areas, including energy, food, water and shipping. As we push forward, the innovative, open spirit that fuels our 140-year-old start‑up culture and rapid growth also drives our personal growth.

So, as we shape a more resourceful, less wasteful world, we build careers too.

Alfa Laval UK and Ireland are currently recruiting for a Field Service Commissioning Engineer with a good level of both, electrical and mechanical skills, with a bias towards electrical. The focus will be on Decanters as well as other core equipment in the Alfa Laval product range.

Working on high speed rotating equipment providing field service support, trouble shooting and training at customer locations on the mechanical, electrical, and electronic components of Decanters ensuring reliable operation, optimum performance and efficiency. This includes performing preventive maintenance, emergency and warranty repairs, installation supervision and commissioning of new equipment, system audits, process troubleshooting and technical support.

You can expect a working environment that is dynamic, collaborative, innovative and offers incredible scope. Whether in terms of skills and knowledge, career path or location, you can grow where you are or anywhere in the world. Our products are highly engineered and we’re proud of what they can do and how they enable our customers to maximise their productivity and competitiveness.

We’re also a long‑established leader in the field. That all makes for a complex global environment in which, if you’re equally productive and ambitious, you’ll be supported to thrive. Our culture is secure and offers ever‑evolving opportunity: people stay with us because they can choose many ways in which to grow and develop. Our curiosity and ambition to innovate means that we welcome new ideas and challenge traditional thinking, every day and in every way.

We’re excited about looking forward to see what’s next, always evolving responsibly and sustainably. And we do it all in the spirit of equality and trust, where everyone has a contribution to make, proactively and confidently.

• Commissioning, servicing and fault finding of new and existing equipment.
• Performing I/O tests on control equipment.
• Performing electrical and mechanical fault finding on our equipment.
• Performing trial test runs when work is completed to ensure performance rates and quality meet established specifications.
• Documenting the equipment serviced, parts used and travel/site hours to support customer invoicing.
• Performing preventive mechanical maintenance service calls on customer equipment.
• Assist and train customer maintenance and supervisory personnel on how to operate our equipment and perform maintenance tasks.
• Providing process and technical support to the department and customers
• Working with the sales team on equipment audits on customer sites to generate new business
• Meeting KPIs for the service team in areas such as submission of job reports and timesheets

• Candidates for this role should have completed a recognised apprenticeship, or have reached a minimum level of technical training i.e. City and Guilds/NVQ/BTEC/Degree.
• You must be able to demonstrate a strong working background in mechanical and electrical
• maintenance, ideally with separation equipment would be beneficial but not essential.
• You should have a high level of competence with respect to, electronic equipment testing, fault finding, exposure to SCADA, PLC’s and an ability to read schematic diagrams is essential.

• Worked on automated production lines, generators, compressors, pumps. Exposure to Alfa Laval core equipment would be advantageous.
• Previou…