Field Overhead Crane Engineer - Midlands

Barrett Steel; Northampton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company van

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Annual cycle to work scheme

Life assurance

Company discount scheme

Barrett Steel pension

Career progression

Job summary

Barrett Steel is seeking an experienced Electric Overhead Crane Engineer to maintain assets across Northampton, Burton, Dartford and Gloucester sites. You will perform preventative maintenance and aim for first-time fixes, ensuring health and safety compliance and cost control.

The role requires technical qualifications in Electrical/Mechanical disciplines, knowledge of various crane brands, and the ability to work at heights.

Qualifications

• Be Safety focused and adhere to current standards relevant to the lifting industry.
• Be qualified in an appropriate technical discipline Electrical/Mechanical & ideally, hold LEEA diploma qualifications
• Strong electrical knowledge of overhead cranes is essential.
• To have knowledge and experience of working on Konecranes, Abus and Demag Cranes.
• Be able to work at Heights & have a working knowledge of Health & Safety requirements. Ideally IOSH trained.
• To hold a full UK driving licence.
• To hold IPAF 3a and 3b powered access licence

Responsibilities

• Ensure that own and team operations, including those undertaken on the Company's behalf are conducted in manner which fully complies with Barrett Steel Health and Safety, Quality, Environmental and Group Policies.
• Maintain the groups Overhead cranes, prolonging the life of the equipment under our remit by means of preventative maintenance and PPM tasking.
• Reduce avoidable costs where possible for the group by achieving first time fix rate.
• Advise the group/site in crane related and lifting operation matters.
• Reduce crane breakdowns by Preventative Maintenance on component items.
• Carry out fault diagnosis and root cause analysis on components after failure.
• Completion of Risk Assessment/Method Statements and Point of Work Risk Assessments.
• Collate crane performance data and send monthly reports to manager for all sites.
• Understand and deploy continuous improvement and problem-solving techniques to optimise crane availability, reliability, and performance.

Skills

Safety focused

Electrical discipline

Mechanical discipline

LEEA diploma

Electrical knowledge

Konecranes knowledge

Abus cranes

Demag cranes

IPAF 3a/3b

UK driving licence

Education

LEEA diploma qualifications

Job description

Barrett Steel is seeking an experienced Electric Overhead Crane Engineer to maintain assets across Northampton, Burton, Dartford and Gloucester sites. You will perform preventative maintenance and aim for first-time fixes, ensuring health and safety compliance and cost control.

The role requires technical qualifications in Electrical/Mechanical disciplines, knowledge of various crane brands, and the ability to work at heights.