Workshop Engineer
North Birmingham Permanent
Monday to Friday 08.00am - to 16.30pm with 30 minutes for lunch
We are now offering an experienced Workshop Engineer an exciting opportunity to join an international market leader. The Workshop Engineer will receive an excellent salary including bonuses to reflect their experience along with ongoing training and development.
The Engineer will be working on all aspects of electrical, mechanical, hydraulics and pneumatics. The qualified Engineer will need experience of carrying out maintenance, fault finding and diagnosis on all types of lift trucks. The Workshop Engineer will have a detailed understanding of health and safety within this environment.
Our client has earned the reputation for exceptional product design, engineering and manufacturing within the material handling industry. Their main objective is to invest in their Engineers to ensure the Engineers receive the best product knowledge, training and development, which enables the Workshop Engineers to meet their customers demands and guarantees both quality products, backed up by top level customer service.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
To complete inspections and safety checks in accordance with industry practice and regulations
To complete day to day service, repair and maintenance of forklift trucks, handling equipment and plant
Complete fault finding and repairs to meet first-fix targets
New equipment preparation
Sourcing of parts from internal or external supplier
Communicate quickly/ efficiently to ensure downtime is kept to a minimum and achieve first-fix targets
Work to company procedures and current Health & Safety/ COSHH regulations
Experience/ Qualifications
Essential Skills
Proficient in fault finding and repair
Experience of Health & Safety requirements working in a workshop practice
Excellent organisational skills, resourceful and solution driven
Ability to multi-task, prioritising workloads to work to tight deadlines
Clear communication skills oral and written
Consultation and negotiation skills
Flexibility to cope with diverse needs of the post
Desirable Skills
Recent and relevant experience of working in the forklift truck service envrironment.
Engineering qualification
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Hyrdaulics