Forestry Commission
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Mechanical Engineering Field Service Engineer (Mobile Mechanic)
Job Summary
As a Mechanical Engineering Field Service Engineer (Mobile Mechanic), you will deliver an efficient, value-for-money service that supports Forestry England in achieving its operational objectives. You will be responsible for maintaining and repairing vehicles and specialist forestry equipment, ensuring the fleet is professionally and cost-effectively managed to maximize availability and reliability.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
Repair and Maintenance of Vehicles, Machinery and Equipment
- Work as a team to successfully deliver high standards of service delivery for the maintenance and repair of assets across your geographical areas of responsibility.
- Ensure that all maintenance, whether preventative or otherwise, inspections, servicing, and statutory checks (such as PUWER, LOLER, PSSR, MOT’s, Fuel Bowser, Plant, Trailers, AV’s, etc.) are completed in accordance with the manufacturers' specifications and internal FC policy.
- Ensure regular communication is provided to charge hand / service delivery administrator on the status of equipment throughout the repair or maintenance process.
- Ensure all assets are assessed for lifespan at each scheduled maintenance event and advise line management should repairs exceed financial expectation.
- Ensure that records of all and any maintenance event, whether scheduled or otherwise, are recorded within the asset management software.
- Ensure all workshop equipment safety check processes are completed.
- Assess and carry out all assigned tasks, identifying the most appropriate method of effecting a repair/maintenance whilst considering cost, downtime, and ensuring the safety of all.
Financial
- Identify any parts required and present as much information as possible to charge hand / admin to order if above delegated authority.
- Comply with delegated authority limits for any purchases, escalating those which may be required.
- Highlight to charge hand / admin any instances where parts quotations may exceed financial expectation for further discussion and authorization.
- Goods receive any parts ordered on receipt of parts.
- Assist in managing parts, consumable, and lubrication stocks of assigned workshop vehicle.
Communication
- Maintain effective communications across your team, colleagues, and suppliers through regular and routine discussions, toolbox talks, and scheduled reviews.
- Ensure end users are kept fully informed of the status of assets under repair via chargehand / admin.
- Seek honest feedback on your own performance and act on that feedback.
- Attend training and maintain CPD to comply with business and personal requirements.
- Create and champion an inclusive working environment where people feel valued, safe to challenge, and where contribution and success is recognized.
Health and Safety
- Complete ‘short job risk assessments’ when they identify additional risks to a ‘job specific risk assessment’.
- Keep records for audit / review purposes.
- Utilize the COSHH database wherever required.
- Attend weekly toolbox talks with your team on matters such as health & safety and regulatory compliance.
- Ensure the effective safe working and encourage across the department.
- Ensure that your workspaces are regularly cleaned and are accessible, inclusive, and maintain a positive approach to hygiene and welfare standards.
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Business Sustainability
- Assist your team to successfully deliver business objectives/outcomes/targets in accordance with PPG 35 – waste.
- Identify areas where a reduction of waste could be achieved, and in cases where this is not feasible, recycling of packaging is effective.
- Encourage an inclusive environment where people feel valued, and where new innovations are openly suggested for future improvements.
Additional Tasks
- And any other tasks reasonably requested by your line manager.
Person Specification
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Essential Professional and Technical Experience
- Demonstrable experience working in a customer and technical engineering focused environment.
- Experience of carrying out maintenance and repair on a wide range of different vehicles, machines, and equipment.
- Experience and knowledge of applying health and safety considerations.
- Good communication skills.
Desirable Professional and Technical Experience
- Knowledge and use of fleet management software, including asset records.
- Experience in working as part of a wider team across multiple geographical areas.
- A high level of technical expertise on repair, maintenance, and diagnostics of mechanical, electronic, and hydraulic systems found on heavy plant machinery and agricultural equipment.
- Experience in vehicle diagnostics and air conditioning.
- Diagnostic knowledge for mechanical engineering assets (VME) using Husqvarna, Snap-on, and other tools.
- Knowledge of electric vehicles.
- Welding (arc and MiG) and fabrication skills.
- Knowledge of risk assessments and COSHH.
Qualifications
Essential
- Full UK driving license – category B (enables you to drive a manual vehicle up to 3,500kg in the UK).
- Mechanical engineering based qualifications, for example:
- City and Guilds Motor Vehicle Engineering (3905), Plant/Agricultural NVQ Maintenance Level 2, or equivalent.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Changing and Improving
- Managing a Quality Service
- Delivering at Pace
Salary and Benefits
- Alongside your salary of £30,105, Forestry Commission contributes £8,721 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- Learning and development tailored to your role.
- An environment with flexible working options.
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
How To Apply
- You will be asked to write a 200-word statement on your relevant experience and career history, along with a personal statement of no more than 500 words. You will be assessed on both during sifting.
- You will be assessed on experience, technical, and strength-based questions during your interview.
- There will be a small practical technical assessment where you will be required to carry out a walk-around inspection to identify any defects.
- The Behaviours being assessed at interview are:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Changing and Improving
- Managing a Quality Service
- Delivering at Pace
- Successful candidates will undergo a criminal record check and the government baseline personnel security standard check.
If you require any reasonable adjustments, please email fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk.
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Security
- Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.
Nationality Requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:
- UK nationals
- Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS).
- Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS).
- Individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020.
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service.
Further information on nationality requirements.
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain, and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy. This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment.
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Contact Point for Applicants
Job Contact
- Name: FC Recruitment Team
- Email: fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk
Recruitment Team
Further Information
Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment on the basis of fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact FCE by email: englandhr.services@forestryengland.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.
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