Crane Engineer in Middlesbrough

Astute's Renewables team is partnering with a leading lifting and engineering specialist to recruit a Crane Service Engineer for its Teesside branch. The Crane Service Engineer role comes with a salary of £40,000-£48,000, a company van and a Monday to Friday working week. The role will involve servicing, maintaining, fault finding and repairing overhead cranes and lifting equipment across a range of customer sites.

If you're an experienced electrically biased Crane Engineer with a strong background in fault finding and maintenance, this is an opportunity to join an experienced engineering team with ongoing technical training and structured career development.

Responsibilities and duties of the Crane Service Engineer role:

• Inspect, service, maintain and repair overhead cranes and lifting equipment including overhead cranes, jib cranes, runway systems, hoists, light cranes and mobile gantries.
• Diagnose and repair electrical faults, often without detailed electrical drawings.
• Carry out fault-finding and repairs on motors, inverters, drives, gearboxes, hydraulics, pneumatics and control panels.
• Conduct planned maintenance and respond to equipment breakdowns at customer sites.
• Inspect lifting equipment and identify safety or compliance issues.
• Carry out repairs, adjustments and component replacements to minimise customer downtime.
• Work safely at height and in confined or challenging environments.
• Liaise directly with customers to explain completed work and provide advice on safety and operational improvements.
• Complete accurate service reports, maintenance records and compliance documentation.
• Carry out basic welding and fabrication tasks where required.

Professional qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years' experience in cranes, lifting equipment or heavy industry related electro-mechanical engineering.
• An electro-mechanical engineering background with an electrical bias.
• Strong electrical fault-finding experience, including the ability to diagnose faults with and without drawings.
• Experience working with three phase systems, motors, inverters, drives and gearboxes.
• Understanding of hydraulics, pneumatics and mechanical lifting systems.
• Experience with overhead cranes, hoists or other lifting equipment is preferred.
• Comfortable and competent working at height.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Experience with welding or fabrication would be desirable.

Additional qualifications or training:

• Abrasive Wheels
• EMSS/CCNSG Safety Passport
• Harness Training
• IPAF
• LEEA
• Working at Height

Personal skills:

• Electrically biased with a strong practical engineering background.
• Confident diagnosing and resolving complex electrical and mechanical faults.
• Comfortable working independently at customer sites.
• Safety-conscious with a strong understanding of compliance and industry standards.

Salary and benefits of the Crane Service Engineer role:

• £40,000-£48,000 salary.
• Company van.
• 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
• 33 days' annual leave including statutory bank holidays.

Astute People are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. We do not discriminate on the grounds of age, race, gender, disability, creed or sexual orientation and comply with all relevant UK legislation. We encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Astute is also committed to the government's Disability Confident Employer initiative. We endeavour to get back to everyone, however, if you have not heard anything after 7 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.