FM Conway is currently seeking a skilled and dedicatedWelfare Unit Fitterto join our Plant and Workshop Division. In this role, you will be responsible for the repair, servicing, and refurbishmentof portable welfare units. You’ll ensure all units are maintained to the highest mechanical and electrical standards, meeting safety requirements and being fully prepared for hire or deployment. This is a full-time, permanent role based in Sevenoaks, Kent.
The duties of the Welfare Unit Fitter will include:
-Performing scheduled maintenance, servicing, and general repairs on welfare units, covering both interior and exterior components
-Inspecting, testing, and repairing electrical systems, including generators, lighting, and heating units, ensuring full functionality and compliance
-Diagnosing mechanical and electrical faults and carry out effective repairs to minimise downtime
-Restoring welfare units to the required standard through repair, replacement, and finishing work, ensuring safety and presentability
-Cleaning, painting, and carrying out quality control checks to ensure all units are fully operational and ready for immediate hire
-Maintaining clear and detailed documentation of all inspections, repairs, and maintenance activities
-Working safely and responsibly at all times, following company policies and industry health and safety regulations to maintain a safe working environment
What skills and experience do you need?
The ideal Welfare Unit Fitter will have strong mechanical fitting and maintenance experience, with the ability to efficiently diagnose and resolve both mechanical and electrical faults. Competency in working with electrical systems, including testing and minor installations is essential, while experience with welding and light fabrication is desirable. A solid understanding of portable welfare units, generators, and heating systems will be highly beneficial. A full UK driving licence is required for this role.
What benefits will you receive?
As our Welfare Unit Fitter, we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 23 days holiday plus bank holidays, company pension, life assurance, opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines, and support from our in-house mental health first aiders.
A brief introduction to FM Conway and the Plant and Workshop Division
FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. The heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.
We manufacture a comprehensive range of high-quality aggregates, asphalt and concrete products to serve our clients and we have developed a portfolio of specialised manufacturing plants and a large fleet of delivery HGV and LGV vehicles. Our Plant and Workshop division are an essential part of our projects, without the correct plant or HGV/LGV vehicles we wouldn’t be able to transport our materials from our depots to our sites. Our team work hard maintaining our wide range of heavy plant and small tools which include Excavators, Dumpers, Rollers, JCB’s, Bulkers, Low Loaders, Grabs, Tippers, Bitumen Tankers, Relocate lorries, Volumetric Mixers Pavers and Planers.
So, if you want to Join our Family as our Welfare Unit Fitter,