Mobile Forklift Engineer - Aylesbury/Buckingham
Posted by Kemp Recruitment Ltd
£30,000 – £45,000 a year
Aylesbury · Permanent
We're recruiting a Mobile Forklift Engineer to join a team covering Aylesbury and Buckingham, servicing and maintaining a range of materials handling equipment, including forklifts, side loaders and reach trucks.
Offering a competitive basic salary of up to £38,000, overtime paid at 1.5x and an excellent benefits package, this is a great opportunity to join an organisation that invests in its employees and offers a range of additional perks.
You'll be working independently in a customer-facing role, so we're looking for someone with strong mechanical and electrical fault-finding skills, a proactive approach and the ability to manage their own workload.
Experience within forklift trucks, plant machinery, agricultural equipment, powered access or a similar industry would be ideal. A good Light Vehicle Technician background will also be considered.
The Role
- Servicing, maintaining and repairing materials handling equipment, including forklifts, side loaders and reach trucks.
- Diagnosing faults and identifying repairs to maximise equipment reliability and minimise downtime.
- Completing service records, job sheets, parts orders and warranty work accurately.
- Providing a professional, high-quality service to customers.
- Planning and booking scheduled maintenance with customers.
- Managing and prioritising your own workload effectively.
- Ensuring chargeable work and scheduled servicing are completed within agreed timescales.
- Keeping the service team updated on completed work, estimates, damage reports and outstanding jobs.
- Carrying out lifting equipment inspections and PAT testing when required.
- Following all site health and safety requirements and wearing appropriate PPE.
- Undertaking other reasonable duties associated with the role.
- Forklift Engineer
- Plant Engineer / Fitter
- Agricultural Technician
- Powered Access Engineer
- Materials Handling Engineer
- Light Vehicle Technician
- Previous experience servicing, repairing or maintaining forklifts, plant machinery, MHE or similar equipment.
- Strong mechanical and electrical fault-finding skills.
- Experience with construction, agricultural or powered access machinery would be advantageous.
- The ability to work independently and manage your own workload.
- Good customer service and communication skills.
- A full UK driving licence.
- Basic salary: £35,000–£38,000, dependent on experience.
- Overtime paid at 1.5x.
- Monday to Friday working hours, 08:30–17:00.
- Weekend call-out rota (to be discussed at interview).
- Annual bonus.
- Contributory pension scheme.
- Enhanced parental policies.
- 23 days' annual leave, plus bank holidays, increasing with length of service.
- Life assurance at 2x salary.
- On-site parking.
- Employee welfare benefits and vouchers.
- Employee Assistance Programme, including retail, health and gym discounts, confidential counselling and Cycle2Work.
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