Engineer - Plant

Speedy are the UK’s leading hire provider with the widest range of tools, specialist hire equipment, plant and support services – everything for every job!

Plant Engineer

Location – Reading

Monday to Friday – Hours: 07:30 to 17:00 (42 hours per week)

Responsibilities

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Plant Engineer to provide overall responsibility for the inspection, testing, maintenance and repair of plant hire equipment in the region, ensuring that all work undertaken is safe and complies with Speedy safety standards.

On a day-to-day basis, you will work directly with other engineers in the depot and liaise regularly with drivers and the hire desk team to ensure repairs and maintenance of plant equipment is prioritised effectively.

Qualifications

• Background in Car / Motorbike / Lorry mechanical engineering.
• Proven ability to test and repair plant equipment to the highest standard, ideally gained within the hire industry or similar.
• NVQ Level 2 or City & Guilds equivalent in a relevant discipline.
• Technical/engineering background is desirable.
• Flexible approach to working hours.
• Ability to support your business unit/team to deliver our ESG Strategy – Decade to Deliver.

What We Provide

We will provide everything you need to ensure you succeed in this role. We offer all on the job training and have dedicated product and system training teams available to support you. We are passionate about employee growth and offer tailored development programmes to suit individual needs. We pride ourselves on our ability to recognise and develop talent, which has allowed us to champion internal progression over the years.

Benefits

• Life assurance.
• Pension Scheme.
• 95% discount across the Speedy brand.
• Opportunities for training, development and career progression.
• Voluntary Health Cash Plan.
• My Staff Shop: discounts and offers for shopping etc. 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.

Work-Life Balance

Speedy operates an industry-leading Work Life Balance initiative, demonstrating our commitment to reducing core contracted hours, supporting colleague wellbeing, and identifying more balanced work patterns for our colleagues. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements to suit your needs, including flexible start/finish times, shorter days, term time hours and job share opportunities.

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.

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.

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

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