Field Service Engineer

Field Service Engineer

Dewsbury Area (Base)

Permanent

My client is a leading and fast-growing provider of maintenance support, services and hire of electrical forklifts to commercial industry and business. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Field Service Engineer to provide routine and emergency maintenance, service and support in the Yorkshire and Humber region, onsite at customer premises.

Duties Include:

• Servicing and repair as directed by the Service Manager.
• Diagnosing the exact nature of each query and repair with a friendly, efficient, can-do attitude.
• Completing a service report for each job on a PDA system.
• Reporting to the Service Manager.

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and qualities:

• Experience with Forktrucks (Desirable but not essential).
• Confident Electrical knowledge.
• City & Guilds in mechanics or equivalent qualification is ideal but not essential, this could be time served
• Be well-organised, methodical and process-driven.
• Ability to think outside the box, adept at finding solutions.
• Good at managing own workload and able to cope with pressure.
• Present a professional image - be trustworthy, punctual and polite.
• Good team player.

Whilst it would be ideal for applicants to have experience of servicing and maintaining forktrucks, we welcome applicants with experience of mechanical and electrical engineering with some fault disgnostics experience.

This is a permanent position where you will work a standard 40 hour week (8am - 4:30)

In return you can expect a base salary of £34320 (£16.50p/h), rising to £36400 (£17.50 p/h) after successful completion of a 6 month probation. On top of this, any overtime is paid at time and a half, there is a bonus scheme and company van.

This position is being advertised by AMF Recruitment Ltd, a specialist recruitment business supporting the manufacturing industry.