Mobile Forklift Engineer - Wellingborough

Job title: Forklift Engineer
Location: Wellingborough and surrounding areas
Basic Salary: -35,000 - -40,000
OTE: -45,000 - -51,500+

We are recruiting for a Field Based Engineer to join a busy team based in Wellingborough.
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Due to an increase in workload, the successful candidate will be responsible for servicing and maintaining a range of equipment across a fleet of brands.

You''ll work across a range of leading forklift and materials handling brands, including Yale, Hyster, JCB, Combilift and Aisle-Master.

Daily responsibilities:

• Carrying out servicing, maintenance and repairs on a range of equipment.
• Working on scissor lifts, reach trucks and counterbalance forklifts.
• Diagnosing and resolving mechanical and engineering issues.
• Travelling to customer sites to complete planned and reactive work.
• Ensuring all work is completed safely and to a high standard.
• Completing relevant service and maintenance documentation.
• Participating in an on-call rota when required, with volunteers sought where possible.

• Experience as a Forklift engineer or agricultural technician
• Proven experience of servicing, maintaining & repairing diesel engines
• Confident working with electrics, hydraulics and diagnostic equipment
• Full UK driving licence

• Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
• Basic salary: -35,000 - -40,000
• OTE: -45,000 - -51,500+ (based on 5 hours overtime a week) -
• Overtime paid at 1.3x Monday-Friday, 1.5x Saturday and 2x Sunday.
• Company van and fuel card.
• Door-to-door pay.
• 23 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• 2-week Christmas shutdown.
• Company tablet and Work phone.
• Occasional on-call allowance/rota.