Mobile Forklift Engineer
Kemp Recruitment Ltd
Basic Salary: £31,000 – £38,000
OTE: £36,811 – £45,124 (based on 5 hours overtime/week)
Overtime: 1.5x
Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00am–4:30pm (40 hours)
Location: Scotland (Depot near Glasgow)
We’re currently recruiting for a Mobile Forklift Engineer working with a well-established and employee-focused material handling company. Due to their increased workload, they are expanding their team!
As a Forklift Engineer, your responsibilities will include:
- Performing servicing, maintenance and repair work on a broad range of forklift trucks and material handling equipment
- Identifying and resolving mechanical, electrical and hydraulic issues
- Carrying out LOLER inspections to ensure all equipment remains fully compliant
- Completing detailed safety checks and pre-delivery inspections (PDI)
- Responding to breakdowns and conducting reactive maintenance to reduce customer downtime
- Effectively organising and managing your own workload and service schedule (for mobile positions)
- Accurately filling out service reports, job sheets and all relevant compliance documentation
- Coordinating with parts departments to ensure the correct components are sourced and installed
- Keeping the working environment clean, safe and well organised
- Delivering excellent customer service while representing the company in a professional manner at all times
What We’re Looking For
- Experience as a Forklift Engineer, Plant Engineer or similar
- Knowledge of diesel engines
- Experience with electrics and hydraulics
- Strong diagnostic skills
- Ability to work independently and manage workload
- A professional, reliable and customer-focused attitude
- Experience or knowledge of LOLER inspections (desirable)
- Technical qualification (City & Guilds / SVQ) (desirable)
- Full UK driving licence
What you’ll get in return:
- Excellent package including a competitive salary upto £45,124
- Door to Door pay
- Company van with personal use allowed and fuel card
- PDA & Mobile Phone
- uniform provision
- overtime and call-out available
- contributory pension
- employee retail discount scheme
- 24 days holidays + Bank Holidays, extra days holiday awarded on service,
- full training and development programme for career progression to diversify employee’s skillset in an evolving trade
Next steps:
If this sounds of interest or you are looking for advise on your next career move, please contact Celi Digby on (phone number removed) or apply today.
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