Mobile plant mechanic

Banner Plant is part of Henry Boot, one of the UK’s leading land, property development, home building and construction businesses. Together, we are where great places start.

Banner Plant is one of the leading plant hire specialists for construction, infrastructure and industry. We offer a wide range of products and services for sale and hire, and continually refresh our hire fleet, transport and service facilities.

Operating from seven regional depots in the north of England, we have supplied the most modern, technically acceptable and competitive construction products and services for over 65 years.

Here at Banner, we operate a highly successful plant hire business. Our fleet consists of exciting modern machines imperative to building today’s sleek skylines, utilities and infrastructure sectors.

Due to continued success and business growth, we are looking for an access mobile Fitter/Engineer to join our friendly team at our Derby depot. This is a mobile role, with a company vehicle provided, requiring travel to customer sites across the UK. Ideally, the successful candidate will have experience in access and/or plant maintenance.

The Role

You will play a vital role in the success of our busy depot with the responsibility for the inspection, testing, maintenance and repair of our company fleet, which includes mechanical plant and access equipment ranging from 17m telehandlers to Bomag 55 rollers.

Key Responsibilities

• You will identify and repair any faults or damage to the fleet equipment whilst accurately updating service records.
• Estimate and advise on equipment repair costs
• Update workshop on items of stock
• Assist with deliveries and collections where required

About You

As part of our successful depot team, the successful applicant will demonstrate:

• Current experience or knowledge of plant maintenance operations
• Ability to inspect, test, maintain and repair plant equipment
• An NVQ in Plant Operations or equivalent is an advantage or the drive and desire to complete the qualification.
• Possess strong attention to detail and accuracy with the ability to work effectively to strict deadlines.
• Full UK driving licence

We are passionate about our people, and we are committed to your career development with us. You will have full access to our learning and development team, and we encourage you to consider your own training desires and make suggestions. We pride ourselves on fully supporting you to undertake training and education to achieve your goals and objectives.

Our offer

We have a competitive and progressive benefits package to help shape and support you inside and outside of work.

• We pay you a competitive salary – we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and gender pay parity;
• We will provide you with access to electric and hybrid vehicle leasing through our salary sacrifice scheme;
• We share our financial success with our bonus scheme;
• We invest in your future with our pension plan provided by AVIVA;
• We protect your loved ones by giving a life assurance benefit based on multiples of salary;
• We support you when you might have health concerns for you or your family with our Digital GP app;
• We will help you manage the balance of work and home with agile working (where possible) and flexibility to ensure that you can be there for those important life events;
• We give you 24 days of annual leave, with the ability to buy additional leave;
• We support a complete business closure between Christmas and New Year, which does not require you to use your annual leave entitlement;
• We give you enhanced pay if you take leave due to becoming a parent; however you become a parent;
• We support your career aspirations; we are committed to personal growth and internal talent development;
• We offer you access to our Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme, which includes access to e-bikes;
• We support you when you need external support with our Employee Assistance Programme.

We put our people first. As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are committed to creating an environment in which we can all be our best and bring our authentic selves to work.

We ensure our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably, should you wish to discuss any adjustments please contact our people team (people@henryboot.co.uk)

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time in advance of the closing date.

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