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Forklift Service Engineer

Toyota Material Handling Group

Leeds

On-site

GBP 80,000 - 100,000

Full time

30+ days ago

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Job summary

A leading manufacturer of material handling equipment is seeking a Forklift Service Engineer in Leeds. This role involves maintaining and repairing forklift trucks. Candidates should have experience in forklift engineering and strong communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary, benefits including a company vehicle, and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Competitive salary
Attractive company pension
Company vehicle
Full tool kit
Company sick pay
Free eye tests
Access to a 24/7 employee assistance programme

Qualifications

  • Experience working as a forklift engineer, plant fitter, or similar.
  • Effective planning and organisational skills.
  • Able to work on your own initiative.

Responsibilities

  • Service, maintain, and repair forklift trucks.
  • Respond to breakdowns and provide local after sales support.
  • Achieve agreed targets.

Skills

Forklift engineering experience
Mechanical engineering
Basic electrical knowledge
Organisational skills
Communication skills
Building rapport with customers
UK driving licence
Job description

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We are looking for a Forklift Service Engineer (Field Technician) to work within our After Sales department to maintain, repair, service and modify the company's range of products. This role comes with a competitive salary, an attractive company pension, a company vehicle, and the opportunity to work for a great company. This role is based around Leeds / Castleford in West Yorkshire.

About The Role

The role involves servicing, maintaining, and repairing forklift trucks and other material handling equipment. On a day-to-day basis this is what you would be doing:

  • Service, maintain, overhaul, fault find and resolve faults on company products.
  • Respond to breakdowns
  • Provide local after sales support to customers.
  • Deal promptly with customer enquiries, problems or complaints.
  • Keep control of vehicle stock and deliveries.
  • Achieve agreed targets.
Qualifications
  • Experience working as a forklift engineer, plant fitter, plant technician, industrial equipment, or a similar role.
  • Experience in mechanical engineering.
  • Basic electrical knowledge would be beneficial.
  • Effective planning and organisational skills.
  • Able to work on your own initiative.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Build good rapport with customers.
  • Full UK driving licence.
Benefits

We offer a competitive salary, attractive company pension, company vehicle, fuel card, full tool kit, company sick pay, voluntary critical illness cover, free eye tests and flu jab, and access to a 24/7 employee assistance programme.

We will provide you with industry‑leading technical training to ensure you have the knowledge and all the tools to do your job. There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and develop your skills within Toyota.

Why Choose Toyota

Toyota Material Handling is the world’s number one manufacturer of material handling equipment, providing quality sales and service support across the UK. We foster a culture where our team members are encouraged to continually improve their processes and strive to deliver the highest quality in service for our customers. We aim to create a safe environment where our team members feel valued, fulfilled, engaged, and happy. We want to attract the best talent and develop our team so that they achieve their full potential.

To find out more visit toyota-forklifts.co.uk.

Job Location

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

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