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Role Overview
Are you taking care of Boels Rental in Preston as our Plant & Tools Hire Fitter, you will be kept busy servicing, maintaining, and repairing light and medium machinery and plant equipment.
After your repair task is completed, you’ll then get busy using electronic equipment to check, and test that machinery, so that it is certified safe and fit to be hired out to our customers in Preston.
Some of the machinery that you could get the chance to work on is engines, transmission systems, hydraulics, electronics, pneumatic, and parts of plant chassis/frames, such as tracks, wheels, and booms. You will have the chance to service and repair anything from generators, compressors, and concrete mixers to compacting machines, (road rollers/plates), powered hand tools, and disc cutters. You’ll never get bored, that’s for sure! With your acute awareness of H&S compliance, you will carefully carry out safety inspections and checks, keeping comprehensive records of the work. As an experienced Plant & Tools Hire Fitter, safety and quality will, of course, come naturally to you anyway. Your working hours will be Monday to Friday, 0730hrs to 1700hrs.
This is a 3-month temporary fixed-term position covering Long Term Sickness absence.
What Boels Offers
If you come to work with Boels Rental in Preston as a Plant & Tools Hire Fitter, then you do that for a good reason. We will value your skills and that is why you can expect from us:
- A competitive annual salary ranging from £28,090 to £31,800 plus quarterly performance-based bonuses. The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salary offered will vary depending on factors including but not limited to Preston, relevant skills/experience, relevant qualifications, and performance.
- 33 leave days of annual leave per year including official bank holidays.
- At Boels, we recognize the benefits that contributing to the community can have on our mental strength. This is why we also offer all our employees one additional day of leave per year (separate to the annual leave allowance) to spend supporting their local community, getting involved with a local charity, or boosting their mental strength.
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay.
- Boels Rental recognizes that many of the skills that Armed Forces Reservists gain during their training are transferrable to the workplace. Therefore, we offer seven days extra paid leave for you to undertake official reservist activities (proof from MOD to be provided).
- Boels Rental offers you an Employee Assistance Programme with access to legal, health, and wellbeing advice and support when you need it most (https://www.healthassured.org/).
- Boels Rental recognizes and honors our employees with quarterly and annual awards.
- You can take advantage of the TechScheme (https://www.techscheme.co.uk/).
- You can take advantage of the Cycle to Work scheme (https://www.cyclescheme.co.uk/).
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‘You roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty’. ‘You enjoy transforming varied equipment into serviceable pieces of kit for our customers to hire: It's you, so you fit into our orange team in Preston. To also become the best at Boels Rental as a Plant & Tools Hire Fitter, you have to:
- Have a high level of mechanical, diagnostic, and fault-finding skills, coupled with the ability to work quickly and effectively to minimize delays on site. (You love pulling kit apart, finding the issue, and repairing it back to full serviceability).
- Be able to work independently, and make decisions, without direct supervision. (You have a superb knowledge of plant equipment and small tools, and you proactively 'crack-on' and get the job done!).
- Have proven experience of repairing plant equipment and small tools. (Perhaps you have worked for one of our competitors in the past, or you just know plant machinery inside-out and back-to-front!).
- Hold a full UK Driving Licence. (You might need to jump into the Boels van and pop over to a customer's site to quickly rectify a technical issue).
- Have valid proof of your right to work in the UK – (Boels does not arrange relocation, work visas, or provide visa sponsorship).
Contact Information
Are you interested in this vacancy? If you are convinced that this is the right job for you, upload your documents. If you have any further questions, please contact our recruiter Tommi Vuortio at 358407016036.
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