Site Engineer - Dagenham
Guidant Global
Site Engineer - Materials Handling
📍 Dagenham (Site-Based Role)
💰 Competitive Salary + Overtime + Benefits
🚀 The Opportunity
We're looking for a skilled Site Engineer to join our on-site service team in Dagenham, responsible for maintaining and repairing materials handling and ancillary equipment.
This is a varied, customer-facing role where you'll play a key part in ensuring equipment uptime, delivering excellent service, and acting as a trusted technical expert on-site.
You'll also work closely with the Area Service Manager, supporting day-to-day operations and helping maintain strong customer relationships.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities
- Perform planned preventative maintenance (PPM) on materials handling equipment
- Diagnose faults and carry out mechanical and electrical repairs
- Complete accurate service reports, job sheets, and timesheets
- Manage and control on-site parts stock effectively
- Build strong customer relationships, ensuring service delivery meets contractual expectations
- Liaise with the After Sales team to provide updates, ETAs, and repair progress
- Identify and complete chargeable repair work
- Ensure full compliance with health & safety regulations
- Identify and pass on sales leads for equipment and aftersales services
- Act as a professional company ambassador at all times
👉 Occasional call-out and overtime work may be required.
✅ About You
We're open to engineers from a variety of service and maintenance backgrounds, including:
- Automotive / Vehicle Technicians
- HGV / Heavy Vehicle Engineers
- Plant / Construction Equipment Engineers
- Forklift / Materials Handling Engineers
- Ex-Forces / Military Engineers
You'll also have:
- Strong mechanical and/or electrical fault-finding skills
- Experience in a customer-facing or on-site role
- The ability to work independently and manage your workload
- A proactive and professional approach
- A full UK driving licence
🌟 What's in It for You
- Competitive salary + regular overtime opportunities
- Stable, long-term role with a market-leading engineering company
- Ongoing training and development
- Clear career progression opportunities
- Supportive, team-oriented environment
🔑 Key Skills
- Fault finding & diagnostics
- Preventative maintenance
- Customer service & communication
- Time management & organisation
- Problem-solving & initiative
📢 Apply Now
If you're a hands-on engineer looking for a stable, site-based role with variety and career progression, apply today and join a leading name in the materials handling sector.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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