Mechanic – Mechanical Engineering Field Service Engineer
Job Reference: forestryengland/TP/2036/649
Number of Positions: 1
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 37
Location: Bellingham, Cannock or Sherwood
Closing Date: 16/07/2026
Job Category: Operations
Region: Flexible
Business Unit: Mechanical Engineering Services
Salary: £30,105 per annum
We are Forestry England. We live and breathe forests. Join us. We’re foresters, professionals and experts. We are a passionate team who love to share our enthusiasm and want to make a positive difference for you and the environment.
Together, we’re using our scale and expertise to grow the nation’s forests for everyone. We’re already adapting our landscapes for tomorrow, and getting stuff done today, like creating amazing places and experiences for you to enjoy. We’re providing vital homes for wildlife, making our air cleaner to breathe and producing sustainable timber.
What you’ll do…
As a Mechanical Engineering Field Service Engineer, you will provide efficient value for money service to help Forestry England achieve its goals by maintaining and repairing vehicles and specialist forestry equipment, while ensuring that the fleet is professionally and cost effectively maintained to maximise availability. This will include inspecting, repairing, servicing, welding fabrication and recovery work at worksites and other areas. You will typically be maintaining and repairing items such as chainsaws, trailers, quads, agricultural machinery such as tractors and their attachments, cars, vans, and 4X4s. This post will report to the Mechanical Engineering Charge Hand / Service Delivery administrator.
Where you’ll work…
There is one position being advertised with the possibility of 3 different locations dependent on the successful candidate: Sherwood Pines, Birches Valley Cannock, and Bellingham Workshop Northumberland. The role will be managed from Bellingham Workshop for all possible locations.
For Sherwood Pines and Birches Valley, the role will be predominantly mobile and will cover the full central District operational area and Delamere Nursery and occasionally Yorkshire Forest District. A fully equipped mobile workshop vehicle will be provided in addition to necessary tools, equipment, parts and consumables. The mobile vehicle will be based from either location depending on candidate and will be the starting point for work each day, with regular travel required.
The Bellingham Workshop role will be a combination of workshop-based and mobile working. Tools will be provided within the workshop environment. Shared use of mobile workshop vehicles will be required when undertaking mobile duties. The role will primarily support the North District, with travel into the Central and Yorkshire Districts as operational needs require. Regular travel is expected as part of the role.
Position Location and Working Arrangements
There is one position available, with the potential to be based at one of three locations, depending on the successful candidate’s circumstances and operational requirements. The available locations are:
- Birches Valley, Cannock WS15 2UQ
- Bellingham Workshop, Northumberland NE48 2HP
Regardless of the appointed location, overall line management of the role will be from Bellingham Workshop.
Alongside your salary, Forestry England contributes an average of 28.97% towards your pension. You will become a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.
- 25 days holiday a year, raising by one day every year’s service, up to 30 days (pro‑rated for part‑time employees) plus additional days off such as bank holidays.
- STaRis our employee benefits scheme offering discounts on everyday supermarket shopping, hotel stays, clothes, mobile phones, other electrical items, medical and car insurance, holidays, gym discounts, household bills, Headspace wellbeing app.
- Free parking at Forestry England sites and free entry to our National Arboretums at Westonbirt and Bedgebury.
- A commitment to lifelong learning through career development. Forestry England will support your career development in a variety of ways, including continual professional development, support for individual learning plans and sponsored membership of professional bodies.
Forestry England is part of the Civil Service. The Civil Service has a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). This means candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria during the application process will be guaranteed an interview. We also offer a Redeployment Interview Scheme to current civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the role. This role is also part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans and Prison Leaver Recruitment initiative.
Within Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, it is essential that applicants should have the ability to provide conversation in accurate spoken English.
Our recruitment process makes appointments based on fair and open competition and merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in line with/according to these principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email: englandhr.services@forestryengland.uk.
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