Service Engineer

Wallace Hind Selection LTD; Remote; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading crane manufacturing firm is seeking a Service Engineer based in the UK with extensive experience in electrical systems, particularly in cranes and lifting equipment. This home-based role involves servicing and maintaining equipment across various locations, supporting installations, and offers a competitive salary of up to £50,000. Applicants should have qualifications in Electrical Engineering and a solid background in relevant machinery. Additional benefits include a company van, health insurance, and annual pay review.

Benefits

Company Van & Fuel Card

25 Days Holiday & Bank Holidays

All tools & PPE provided

Paid overtime

Telephone & tablet

Annual pay review every December

Private medical insurance after qualification period

Qualifications

• Qualified Electrical Engineer with 3 phase background.
• Experienced in servicing cranes or similar machinery.
• Happy working at height and with various electrical systems.

Responsibilities

• Service, repair, and maintain machinery and equipment.
• Support the installation team with commissioning.
• Travel regularly to customer sites for service calls.

Skills

3 phase electrical knowledge

Experience with cranes and lifting equipment

Static maintenance or field service

Comfortable working at height

Knowledge of hydraulics and pneumatics

Education

C&G 2365 in Electrical Installation

Apprentice trained or equivalent education (ONC/HNC/HND)

Job description

Are you an experienced Service Engineer or Maintenance Engineer with a solid 3 phase Electrical background? Are you looking for a home based Service Engineer role with regular travel to customer sites? As our new Service Engineer, you'll be servicing and attending breakdowns on hoists, indoor cranes and other lifting equipment on various customer sites in Hampshire and the surrounding areas. This is a perfect opportunity for an experienced Engineer looking for a new challenge, or an Engineer looking to change industries.

Salary

BASIC SALARY: Up to £50,000 depending on your relevant experience and qualifications

Benefits

• Company Van & Fuel Card
• 25 Days Holiday & Bank Holidays
• All your tools & PPE
• Paid overtime
• Telephone & tablet
• Annual pay review every December
• Private medical insurance after qualification period

Location

Yateley, Hampshire (our ideal location but you will be home based)

Commutable Locations

Guildford, Maidenhead, Woking, Farnborough, Cambeerley, Bracknell, Reading, ALdershot, Fleet, Wokingham

Why you might want to apply?

• You want to become a highly trained, technical expert with indoor cranes, hoists and lifting systems?
• You love a new challenge and you don't mind working at height?
• You're looking for a career with training and development opportunities - not just a job?

Job Description

You will be home based (living around the Yateley area) and reporting into our Service Manager who used to be an Engineer with us, so knows the role well. You'll visit sites to service, repair and maintain a variety of our machinery and equipment - ranging from gantry cranes to hoists and other associated lifting equipment. That will cover about 60% of your week, as you'll also support our installation team commissioning.

We have a loyal customer base spread over manufacturing / industrial environments and a solid product range where we are regularly introducing new products and re‑engineering our existing ones.

Qualifications & Experience

You will be a qualified Electrical Engineer (either apprentice trained or through education ONC/HNC/HND etc) with a background in static maintenance or field service for 3 phase - ideally you will hold your C&G 2365 in Electrical Installation too. You will be happy working at height, comfortable with 3 phase electrics and have a background of relevant transferable machinery such as hydraulics, motors, gearboxes, inverter‑controlled machinery, industrial machinery, pneumatics etc. We can teach you our products.

If you answered YES to the above and you have any experience of working on cranes, traction lifts or similar things like material handling equipment or access plant lifting equipment such as alloy gantries, forklifts, hiabs or versa lifts, skates, air skates, cranes, toe jacks, roller bars, ultralift, telehandlers then you should definitely apply!

The Company

We started production in 1964 and have been established in the UK since 1991. We are a world leading crane manufacturer represented within the materials handling industry. We stand for the highest quality products and reliable customer service. Honesty, safety, and quality are our most important values.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Service Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Installation Engineer, Crane Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Commissioning Engineer, Maintenance Engineer - Materials Handling, Crane, Gantry Crane, Lifting Equipment, LEEA, Electrical Hoist, Capital Equipment, Overhead Crane, Machine Installation, Plant.

Interested?

INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.

EEO and Diversity

Wallace Hind Selection, alongside our client embrace diversity, champion equality, and foster inclusion to create a work environment where everyone belongs and thrives.

Recruitment Contact

Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct. REF: JAC18190, Wallace Hind Selection