Maintenance Engineer

We are recruiting an electrically qualified Crane Service Engineer to join our team based in the Lancashire area, ideally, you'll be in Preston/Blackburn/Blackpool.

We offer:

A competitive basic salary, with a fantastic OTE (£55k-65K, this includes paid overtime and travel time).

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

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Buy and sell holidays

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.

This role reports to the Operations Manager.

The role of a Crane Service Engineer 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.

Qualifications

What we are looking for in you:

We ask that you are apprentice-trained (or equivalent) and conversant with electrical engineering disciplines.

Mechanical knowledge

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

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

Great communication skills

Be personable as there is regular customer contact.

Health & Safety awareness

You can work at height.

Willingness to...