Job Description

Field Service Engineer

  • Salary: £200 - £250 per hour
  • REF Number: v-159072
  • Consultant: Key Accounts Team
  • Contact: 01438 870011
  • Date Published: 20.10.2025
  • Industry: Pharmaceutical
  • Location: Tyne And Wear, Tyne and Wear, England
  • Functional Expertise: Other

CK Group are recruiting for a Field Service Engineer (electro-mechanical), to join a diagnostics company, working in the Tyneside region, on a contract basis for 12 months.

Salary:

Per Day: £200 - £250 PAYE or £265 - £330 Umbrella (Inside IR35).

Field Service Engineer Role:

  • Provide frontline support across various analytical systems
  • Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues
  • Minimise unplanned downtime of laboratory equipment
  • Deliver applications and IT support
  • Conduct training for laboratory staff
Your Background:

  • Degree, HNC/HND in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent demonstrable experience
  • Thorough, up-to-date understanding of the IVD industry
  • Solid experience in implementing best-in-class support
  • Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  • Strong communication and teamwork abilities
  • Resilient and tenacious, able to thrive under pressure
  • Growth mindset with ability to use agile techniques
  • Full UK/EU (or equivalent) driving licence and own transport,
Company:

Our client is a global pharmaceutical company with a major presence in the UK. Their purpose is to deliver life-changing medicines and to do this they are completely science-led and like to share this with the scientific, healthcare and business communities within the UK.

Location:

This role is field based, covering 3 sites in the Tynecastle area, however we do require someone to be based within a commutable range to the sites.

Apply:

It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK. Please quote job reference 159072 in all correspondence.

Please note:

This role may be subject to a satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

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