Crane Technician (Services and Repairs)

Speedy Hire Plc; Wednesbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job description

Specialty Crane Technician - Wednesbury - Monday to Friday - 08:00-16:30 - 39 hours per week - overtime available.

At Lloyds British, we offer the Speedy Work Life Balance, which is a 9-day fortnight. This allows staff to work their total contracted hours over a shorter number of days, enabling you to take a day off.

Lloyds British, a recognised leader in Test, Inspection, and Certification services, is seeking a Specialty Crane Technician to join our expert team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with one of the most trusted names in the industry and contribute to maintaining the highest standards of safety and compliance.

As a Specialty Crane Technician, you will be responsible for the maintenance, servicing, and repair of overhead traveling cranes, ensuring they meet all regulatory and operational standards. If you have hands-on experience and expertise in LOLER regulations, we want to hear from you!

Do you have an ability for solving problems individually as well as part of a team? Are you a qualified Electrician with a recognised technical qualification and have industrial maintenance experience, who is comfortable working at height?

Right now, we are looking for a Crane Technician to join our team. If you are happy to always make safety your number one priority, then you're just the person we'd like to meet.

You will be required to conduct routine service inspections to overhead cranes and hoists and to understand LOLER and PUWER. You will consult with your customers afterwards, ensuring that next steps are recorded with prevention of breakdowns as your goal. You need to anticipate the problems before they occur. You will be involved in frontline maintenance, attending to breakdowns, and carrying out fault finding, retrofits, modernisations, and upgrades to the customers' cranes and hoists.

At Lloyds British, we hire, engage, and retain talented employees who match the capabilities we need. We offer a full range of training from in-house, OEMs and the LEEA advanced courses.

Requirements

• NVQ3, HNC, HND or C&G electrical engineering qualification
• Relevant industry experience working with cranes and hoists.
• Current UK driving licence.

Attributes

• Proven technical knowledge of lifting equipment and lifting machines.
• Excellent customer service manner, with strong listening and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to build lasting relationships with clients.
• Ability to support your business unit/team to deliver our ESG Strategy - Decade to Deliver.

What we offer:

• 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Life assurance
• Pension Scheme
• 95% discount across the Speedy brand
• Opportunities for training, development and career progression
• My Staff Shop: discounts and offers for shopping across many suppliers
• Green Commute Initiative: Work scheme for cycling
• PAM - Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Offers free and confidential support and counselling to help you through matters such as wellbeing, divorce, legal, and financial management

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements and are promoting our Speedy Work Life Balance initiative, which is a huge step in realising our ambition of putting our People First!

Speedy offers a Career Line of Sight, which enables a detailed understanding of the route to progression and growth within the Speedy Group.

Please be aware Speedy reserves the right to close our vacancies earlier than the listed date if we have received a high level of applications. We would recommend that if you wish to be considered, you complete the application as promptly as possible.

Please be aware that some roles within The Speedy Group UK&I may require a DBS, Credit or Security Clearance Check. The Speedy Group is an equal opportunity employer, where we embrace diversity in all its forms and foster an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us.

Link below to our policies in line with our ESG Governance.

ESG Governance Policies

All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. All roles within The Speedy Group require proof of right to work in the UK by the start of employment.