Field Service Engineer (Heavy Wheeled Material Handling)
Location: Southampton (candidate to be based within one hour of Southampton)
Salary: £41792 for 40 hours, with working time being from door to door.
Additional Pay: All overtime at x 1.5 or x 2. On call work offers more earning opportunities.
Work Radius: We will keep you as close to home as possible, but national travel will be required at times.
What we supply: Van fitted out as a mobile workshop, specialist tools, fuel card.
This Global OEM in the manufacture, supply and servicing of heavy material handling plant machinery, has a great new opportunity for a skilled Field Service Engineer to join a high-performing UK and Ireland team. This is an opportunity for engineers with experience in heavy material handling, heavy plant and forklift trucks to join a global leader seen in the sector as a provider of premier equipment. A business where many of the engineering team boast long service. Even the MD started on the tools!
What You’ll Do
- Provide maintenance, repair, servicing, and support for cutting-edge heavy plant and material handling equipment at customer sites. Equipment includes kit such as reach stackers and forklift trucks generally over 8 tonnes.
- Autonomously plan your workday with door-to-door pay.
- Cover clients primarily across the south of the UK, as part of a wider southern team, with a willingness to travel and support other regions as needed.
- Play a key part in a team where your expertise is trusted, and long-term careers are the norm.
What Makes You Stand Out
- Solid background in heavy plant, agricultural machinery, forklift trucks, heavy material handling, or similar.
- Qualified to Level 3 (NVQ or equivalent) in mechanical or electrical engineering (either discipline accepted).
- Experience with hydraulics and an increasing comfort with electrical systems (you can read wiring diagrams).
- An ability to fault-find and perform diagnostics in CAN-BUS systems.
- Reliable, self-managing, and committed to quality.
- Willingness to work at heights.
What You Get
- Remuneration: Competitive basic + overtime after 40 hours (Monday–Saturday at 1.5x, Sundays/bank holidays at 2x, bank holidays also include a paid day off in lieu).
- Training: Recieve high level OEM technical product training on commencement and continual training and upskilling through your career.
- World-Class Support: Full technical and R&D assistance from a leading global manufacturer.
- On-Call: Not always required, but when you do on-call work you get £150/week allowance + minimum 4 hours’ double time if called.
- Pension: 5% employer & 5% employee contributions, salary sacrifice scheme (option to pay more).
- Benefits: Group life assurance (4x salary), fully equipped modern service van (personal use permitted, business fuel covered by fuel card supplied).
- Career: Join a company where engineers stay 10, 15, even 20+ years, because the culture values loyalty, development, and autonomy.
Push your career forward with a world leader in industrial logistics. If you’re looking to work with best-in-class equipment, be part of an expert team, and enjoy real trust and long-term prospects, we want to hear from you.
PMB Manufacturing & Technical Recruitment are operating as a recruitment business in respect of this vacancy.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: From £41,792.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Life insurance
- Work from home
Application question(s):
- Unfortunately this employer is unable to offer visa sponsorship. Do you now, or will you in the future need visa sponsorship?
- Do you have minimum of NVQ 3 in mechanical or electrical engineering or plant engineering?
- Do you live in, or can relocate to the Southampton area?
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Remote
