Field Service Engineer
Covering Broxburn, Scotland
Permanent
Monday to Friday 08.00am - 16.30pm with 30 minutes for lunch
Pension, Life Assurance, Company Van and Fuel Card
Our Client is offering an opportunity for an Experienced Field Service Engineer to join a leading Material Handling Equipment provider. The Engineer will receive a competitive salary with various benefits, plus overtime but this not guaranteed.
The Engineer will have experience working on all aspects of electrical, mechanical, engineering, hydraulics and pneumatics. You will need experience of carrying out maintenance, fault finding and diagnosis on all types of lift trucks.
Applications from Ex-Military personnel are strongly encouraged
Key Responsibilities
Proceed to customers premises as advised, report to the customers contact, locate equipment, diagnose fault. Once the fault has been diagnosed inform Service and the customer with time of completion.
To carry out routine maintenance as directed ensuring that all necessary service parts are available prior to attending customers site all quoted work to be highlighted by liaison personally with the customer,
To keep non-recoverable and unnecessary travel time to a minimum by
Liaising and communicating with Service Control Department. Planning in workload.
Establishing/maintaining appropriate level of van stock/ tooling
To submit detailed and a correctly completed Parts Requisition when making requests by phone provide sufficient information as may be required to enable parts to be obtained accurately and in a timely manner
To work mostly without supervision by using your own initiative in a safe manner as laid down by the Health & Safety At Work Act
Qualifications and Experience
A minimum of NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in Engineering
A strong Mechanical knowledge in a heavy plant background, for example powered access excavators or forklifts
Must be competent in electro/ hydraulic systems
Experience in fault finding/ diagnostics
Must be able to communicate as you will be working closely with customers and colleagues