Engineer Surveyor, Lift & Crane: Oxford/Bicester

Zurich; Oxford; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Essential Car User

Job summary

Zurich Engineering is expanding its Engineer Surveyor team in the Oxford/Bicester area, offering part-time, job-share and full-time options with a flexible diary to service clients. You will conduct statutory inspections and report findings using rugged laptop, enabling compliance with legislation and high standards, while building trusted client relationships.

Fully flexible working pattern and home-based base with travel within your geographic area; a Level 4 engineering qualification is

Qualifications

• Experienced engineer with sound engineering knowledge and judgement.
• Based from home with travel to client sites within geographic area.
• Strong IT literacy to report inspections electronically.

Responsibilities

• Carry out hands-on statutory inspections and provide expert opinion.
• Report findings using a rugged laptop and transmit to clients electronically.
• Communicate clearly and maintain sound engineering judgement.

Skills

Engineering knowledge

Communication skills

IT literacy

Education

Level 4 qualification (HND / HNC)

Tools

Laptop reporting

Job description

Working hours: This role is available on a part-time, job-share and full-time basis

Location: Oxford/Bicester

Salary: Total Package value of over £65,000, including a competitive salary of up to £57,594,depending on experience.

Car: Essential Car User

So what’s it all about:

At Zurich, our Engineer Surveyor workforce is central to our continued success, being the ‘Face of Zurich’ to our large and varied client base.You’ll find a fully flexible offering that means you can manage your own diary to service your own client area.This will allow you to broker and develop your relationships whilst representing Zurich Engineering.

No two days will ever be the same, as you’ll work in a variety of interesting environments and you will have control over your own work/life balance, as we believe our people are what makes us successful.

Our Engineer Surveyor roles allow you to develop your mechanical engineering skills further and work for a market-leading engineering inspection provider.

Zurich Engineering is looking to expand our highly skilled, field-based, Engineer Surveyor team, and we currently have a vaca ncy for the Oxford/Bicester areafor a Lift and Crane Engineer Surveyor.

What will I be doing?

You’ll start with our industry-leading, bespoke training and move swiftly to carrying out hands‑on statutory inspections, providing your expert opinion on a wide range of equipment, enabling our clients to comply with all relevant legislation and to the exacting standards both we and our clients demand. Following your inspection, we’ll need you to report back using a rugged laptop, and then issue electronically to our clients, so good IT skills and high levels of literacy are required. You will be an excellent communicator, and confident in your ability to make sound engineering judgements.

What skills/qualifications will I have?

You will be an experienced engineer with a sound knowledge of your engineering discipline and be part of our multi-disciplined inspection team within your geographic area.You will report to a Team Manager and be based from home, with your client base a reasonable travelling distance from your home.

Because this role is SAFed governed, we need you to ideally have obtained:

• Ideally a Level 4 qualification (HND / HNC etc.) in a relevant engineering field, minimum level