Technical Engineer - East Anglia

Crown Lift Trucks Ltd; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Crown Lift Trucks Ltd is seeking a motivated Field Service Engineer to join their team. This role will involve providing technical support and ensuring high customer satisfaction while maintaining safe working practices. The candidate should have strong fault-finding skills, excellent organizational abilities, and a commitment to continuous development. A company van and competitive benefits will be provided, inviting you to grow alongside a passionate team in an innovative environment.

Benefits

Company van plus fuel card

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Company pension plan

Door to door payment

Employee assistance programme

Excellent discount scheme

Qualifications

• Must hold full UK Driving Licence.
• Experience with Health & Safety in workshop practices.
• Commitment to continuing personal and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Support the FSM/Team leader in engineering activities.
• Deliver a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Promote safe working practices.

Skills

Fault-finding and repair

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Negotiation skills

Health & Safety awareness

Education

Engineering qualification

Grade C in English and maths at GCSE

Job description

About Crown Lift Trucks Ltd

Since its entry into the material handling industry in the 1960s, Crown Equipment Corporation has earned a reputation for exceptional product design, engineering and manufacturing of its award-winning line of electric lift trucks. From our smallest pallet truck to our highest lifting VNA truck, our goal is to always provide the user with the safest, most efficient and ergonomic forklift truck possible. Crown supports customers with a wide selection of electric forklift trucks ranging from pallet trucks to very narrow-aisle VNA trucks.

Our brand promise is:

"Crown designs, manufactures, distributes, services and supports material handling products that provide customers with superior value."

Quality and performance are the foundation of Crown's success. Since our inception, our company culture has always been about people performing and working as a team to ensure that quality is built into every forklift truck we make.

Crown's headquarters, manufacturing facilities and network of branches offer diverse and challenging careers in a broad range of professional and vocational roles.

Job Description

Deliver a high level of customer satisfaction; support the FSM/Team leader in Engineering activities, including technical support, specialist installations and diagnostics, ensuring a cost effective and timely conclusion to technical issues. Promote a high level of Safe Working practices. You will need to be an effective communicator, forming strong links to both the Field Service Engineering Team, Training and Technical Managers.

Person Specification

Essential Skills:

• Must hold full UK Driving Licence.
• Proficient in fault-finding and repair.
• Educated with an ability to achieve a grade C in English and maths at GCSE.
• Experience of Health & Safety requirements working in a workshop practice.
• Commitment to continuing personal and professional development.
• Excellent organisational skills, resourceful and solution driven.
• A high standard of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritising workloads to work to tight deadlines.
• Ability to work independently or in a team.
• Clear communication skills - oral and written.
• Consultation and negotiation skills.
• Flexibility to cope with diverse needs of the post.
• Highly motivated and possessing a resilience to work under pressure.

Desirable Skills:

• Engineering qualification.

Vacancy Details

Hours of Work:

Monday to Friday - 08:00am to 16:30pm with 30 minutes lunch.

Company Vehicle:

A company van and fuel card are provided with the option for private use (subject to tax restrictions)

Holidays:

25 days holiday.

Pension:

Company pension plan.

At Crown, we know that our employees are the driving force behind our success in the material handling industry. We cultivate a culture of passionate people and inspired innovation. In fact, throughout Crown's history, more than 1,000 employees have reached a 25-year milestone, and we are proud to have travelled their career paths with them.

From employee training and development to competitive compensation packages, we invest in our employees, knowing that people are always at the core of what moves us forward.

In addition to financial remuneration and participation, we our offer our employees various social benefits including but not limited to:

• Company van plus fuel card - private use of company vehicle (subject to tax regulations)
• Company pension plan.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Door to door payment.
• Excellent discount scheme with access to the best perks from some of the UK's biggest brands.
• Employee assistance programme.

Any questions please contact me on [e-mail].

Please contact us via our website at:

Crown Lift Trucks Ltd
Karen Callander
Rutherford Road
Basingstoke
RG24 8PD
www.crown.com

If you have any further queries regarding this job, please do not hesitate to contact the Recruitment Team at Crown Lift Trucks Ltd on 01256 300211 or via [e-mail]