Mobile Forklift Engineer - Middlesborough in Durham
Posted by Kemp Recruitment Ltd
£40,000 – £55,000 a year
Durham · Permanent
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 safety checks and pre-delivery inspections
- Responding to breakdowns and conducting reactive maintenance to reduce customer downtime
- Effectively organising and managing your workload and service schedule
- Accurately filling out service reports and job sheets
- Communicating with parts departments to ensure the correct components are sourced and installed
What you’ll need:
- Experience as a Forklift engineer / Material handling mechanic / Plant Fitter or similar
- Proven experience of diesel engines
- Strong experience with electrics, hydraulics and diagnostic skills
- Ability to work independently and manage workload
- A professional, reliable and customer-focused attitude
- Technical qualification (City & Guilds / NVQ) (desirable)
- Full UK driving licence
Your Package:
- Basic Salary: £30,000 - £40,000
- OTE: £35,624 - £47,498 (based on 5hrs overtime)
- OTE: £41,248 - £54,997 (based on 10hrs overtime)
- Overtime paid at 1.5x
- Company pension scheme
- Generous holiday allowance plus bank holidays
- Company van (for mobile roles) with fuel card provided
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