Maintenance Engineer

Bristol
2 weeks ago
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Maintenance Engineer

We are recruiting a Crane Service Technician to be based in the Bristol area.

We offer an OTE of £55K-65K, this includes your basic salary as well as paid travel time and paid overtime.

This role reports to the Operations Manager.

The role of a Service Technician will involve the maintenance, repair and upgrade of our customers' lifting equipment, primarily overhead gantry cranes. The work we offer is varied and two days are rarely the same.

Your main responsibilities will include:

  • You will perform preventative maintenance and repairs on electric overhead travelling cranes.

  • Trouble- shooting equipment breakdowns.

  • Consult with customers on repair and safety related issues.

  • Complete appropriate documentation through your mobile device.

    What we are looking for in you:

  • You are apprentice-trained (or equivalen)t and conversant with electrical engineering disciplines.

  • Mechanical knowledge

  • Previous experience working with overhead cranes and hoists is great, but maintaining, repairing, and servicing equipment on an industrial environment is essential.

  • Based on 39 hours p/w Mon-Fri. Weekend overtime working will earn double time.

  • Good command of the English language

  • Be personable as there is regular customer contact.

  • Health & Safety awareness

  • You will be asked to climb a ladder and able to work at heights.

  • Willingness to work extra hours – this attracts paid overtime.

  • Hold a current driving licence.

  • Willingness to work on the on-call rota with enhanced premium.

    We offer:

  • A good base salary.

  • Paid travel time – from your home in the morning and on the return home from your last job of the day.

  • Generous overtime and double time at weekends

  • Call out payment.

  • 33 days annual leave (includes bank holidays)

  • Contributory pension + life assurance + income protection insurance

  • A Company van with satnav, corporate clothing and smart phone are provided.

  • Employee Share Save Scheme

  • Retail, grocery, DIY and leisure discounts

  • Employee Assistance Programme

    ​​​​​​​ What makes us special:

  • We have received a Gold rating from EcoVadis for a fourth year in a row. Our actions, policies and reporting putting us in the top 1% of its general-purpose machinery peers, and in the top 2% of all rated companies globally.

  • We have been awarded the RoSPA Gold Medal (for 6 consecutive years Golds) Award for their UK company safety performance!

  • When you join our company, you immediately notice a sense of commitment, camaraderie, and lots of opportunities to grow professionally within our organisation.

  • We provide specialised training on high-quality products, provision of all equipment and PPE along with excellent company working practices and industry-leading training programme.

    Why join us?

    We pride ourselves on having a broad portfolio of customers who operate across multiple industries; these include Container Handling, Automotive, Aerospace, Construction, Rail, Ports, Power, Waste to Energy, Mining and General Manufacturing to name but a few

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