Dawsongroup
Workshop Engineer
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About This Role
Are you a Workshop Engineer looking for your next opportunity, or an experienced Plant Fitter, Mechanical Engineer or Service Technician ready for a fresh challenge?
This Workshop Engineer role with Dawsongroup EMC could be exactly what you have been searching for, supporting a modern hire fleet of sweepers and specialist municipal equipment from our Brighouse operation.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out equipment repairs, servicing, and pre-hire inspections across the DGEMC hire fleet
- Complete electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic fault diagnosis and repairs
- Perform routine maintenance, inspections, and MOT preparation checks on sweepers and specialist equipment
- Ensure all equipment is maintained to the highest standards of cleanliness, functionality, and compliance
- Maintain accurate workshop records, including parts used, repair details, and time taken
About You
- You enjoy solving problems, take pride in doing a job properly, and understand the importance of keeping equipment safe, compliant, and customer-ready
- Experience could be in municipal, Material Handling Equipment (MHE), HGV, plant, fleet, or commercial vehicle engineering, or transferable mechanical experience
- Comfortable carrying out servicing, inspections, and fault-finding with minimal supervision
- Safe worker: Able to follow health, safety, and environmental procedures at all times
- Confident working across electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical systems
- Organised and reliable in completing paperwork and workshop records
- A team player who supports wider workshop and operational activities when needed
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About Us
Dawsongroup Environmental, Municipal, Civil is part of Dawsongroup, one of Europe’s leading asset rental businesses with over 50 years in asset rental and over 90 years in operation.
- Family-owned heritage: Operating for decades with core values that shaped us as a family business, now under the ownership of KKR
- Investment in growth: Continues to invest in people, equipment, and future expansion
- Specialists: Focused on a smarter asset strategy across municipal, environmental, and specialist fleet solutions
- Commitment to excellence: Ensures safe, modern, and well-maintained equipment across the hire fleet
- employee development: Strong focus on wellbeing, internal progression opportunities, and staff growth
- culture: Built on integrity, accountability, and collaboration
- inclusion: Dawsongroup is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from all backgrounds
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About Your Future
This role offers an opportunity to join a growing business that continues to invest in its people, facilities, and equipment, where practical experience, attitude, and potential are genuinely valued.
Benefits
- 2x Life Assurance scheme
- Funded training and internal progression pathways (nationally and internationally)
- Annual leave: 24 days standard + Birthday + Bank Holidays + up to 10 days extra (time-served or purchase scheme)
- Wellbeing support:
- Cycle to work schemes
- Mental health resources
- Seasonal gifts and long-term incentive opportunities
Note: If you don’t tick every checklists, that’s okay—we know great engineers come from various industries, and transferable skills matter as much as direct experience.
Find Your Fit Here
If you want to build your career with a business that: ✨ Values people ✨ Invests in modern equipment ✨ Offers room to grow
Then Dawsongroup wants to hear from you. At Dawsongroup, our people really are our greatest asset.
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