Crane Service Technician

Overview

We are recruiting an electrically-qualified Crane Service Engineer to join our team based in northeast Scotland.

Benefits

• A competitive basic salary with a fantastic OTE (55k-65K)
• Paid travel time from your home in the morning and on the return home from your last job of the day.
• Generous overtime and double time at weekends
• Call out payment.
• 33 days annual leave (includes bank holidays)
• Contributory pension life assurance income protection insurance
• A Company van with satnav corporate clothing and smart phone are provided.
• Employee Share Save Scheme
• Retail grocery DIY and leisure discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Buy and sell holidays

Your main responsibilities

• You will perform preventative maintenance and repairs on electric overhead travelling cranes.
• Trouble- shooting equipment breakdowns.
• Consult with customers on repair and safety related issues.
• Complete appropriate documentation through your mobile device.

Reporting

This role reports to the Operations Manager.

Role details

The role of a Crane Service Engineer will involve the maintenance repair and upgrade of our customers lifting equipment primarily overhead gantry cranes. The work we offer is varied and two days are rarely the same.

Qualifications

What we are looking for in you:

• We ask that you are apprentice-trained (or equivalent) and conversant with electrical engineering disciplines.
• Mechanical knowledge
• Previous experience working with overhead cranes and hoists is preferred but maintaining repairing and servicing equipment in an industrial environment is essential.
• Based on 39 hours p/w Mon-Fri. Weekend overtime working will earn double time.
• Great communication skills
• Be personable as there is regular customer contact.
• Health & Safety awareness
• You are able to work at height.
• Willingness to work extra hours this attracts paid overtime.
• Hold a current driving licence.
• Willingness to work on the on-call rota with an enhanced premium.
• Due to the location of our customers in Scotland we anticipate you being away approx 30 nights a year during which time accommodation and subsistence will be provided.

Additional Information

What makes us special:

• We have been awarded the RoSPA Gold Medal (for 6 consecutive years Golds) Award for our UK company safety performance!
• When you join our company you immediately notice a sense of commitment camaraderie and lots of opportunities to grow professionally within our organisation.
• We provide specialised training on high-quality products provision of all equipment and PPE along with excellent company working practices and industry-leading training programme.

Why join us

We pride ourselves on having a broad portfolio of customers who operate across multiple industries; these include Container Handling Automotive Aerospace Construction Rail Ports Power Waste to Energy Mining and General Manufacturing to name but a few.

Remote Work

No

Employment Type

Full-time

Key Skills

Mechanic Experience, Customer Service, Hand Tools, HVAC, Mechanical Knowledge, Automotive Repair, Service Technician Experience, Maintenance, Heavy Lifting, Equipment Repair, Troubleshooting