Field Service Engineer – Separation
Salary: $80,000 - $90,000 (Dependent on experience)
Who You Are
You have trade-relevant mechanical engineering qualifications – fitter, fitter machinist, or mechanical engineer, with proven, hands-on, post-qualification experience assembling and disassembling mechanical (separation) machinery and components.
You possess excellent organizational skills to record service tasks in a clear, concise service report and submit all job-related paperwork and expenditure in a timely manner.
You are a great communicator, able to discuss issues and advise solutions regarding our customers' equipment and processes.
You are confident and self-motivated, with the ability to work autonomously or remotely supported, and able to follow directions and instructions with ease.
You have a good level of physical fitness and possess the digital mindset and skills to work with business tools and help drive our company’s digitalization journey.
About the Job
Your duties will include:
- Servicing, troubleshooting, and commissioning of decanter centrifuge and high-speed separators.
- Reading and interpreting engineering drawings, manuals, exploded diagrams, and P&ID drawings.
- Compiling technical service reports.
- Working to a high level of health and safety – compiling and working to JSEAs, SWMS, permit to work, Take 5, etc.
- Being part of a pioneering team developing new applications via trials.
- The satisfaction of keeping equipment running reliably with happy customers.
- The diversity of working on customers' sites, equipment, and application types compared to being rigidly located on one site.
- A combination of regional, interstate, and local metro work.
- Providing support in our Perth workshop when required.
What You Know
- Mechanical fundamentals.
- Experience with Alfa Laval high-speed separators and decanter centrifuge machines.
- Experience in marine, brewing, wastewater, mining, rendering, and oil & gas applications.
- PLC control systems experience would be highly advantageous – Siemens, Allen & Bradley, 2 Touch, Plus, Basic, DCC, EPC 50/60.
- Electrical troubleshooting experience would be highly advantageous (but not essential).
- Australian connect/disconnect license.
- You will require a full driving license.
- Strong English language and writing skills.
- Strong digital skills – Word, Excel, Lotus Notes.
- Hold an industry white card.
- Hold a forklift license (preferable, not essential).
- Hold a dogger or rigger ticket (preferable, not essential).
- Hold a confined space ticket (preferable, not essential).
- Additional experience with Compabloc (welded heat exchanger), offshore working, welded & semi-welded plate heat exchangers, and CIP procedures would be highly advantageous.
- Reading plate heat exchanger plate specification drawings to ensure correct assembly would be highly advantageous.
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